Ultimate Rhoads

dannyahansen wrote:If I am not mistaken the "T" tops on Randy's replica Gibson were made with Alnico III magnets. I have to admit that these pick ups in this guitar sound nothing like what I have played before. I really liked them. I have seen gibson using alnico III magnets on a few other Les Pauls latley. I think it is a good move. As I am sure these are all good pickups. I have never used any of them before. I think it import to flush out what is used on Randy's guitar though.

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... onics.aspx
Here is a link that talks about the pick ups.

Oh and the Amp is a big part of the tone. So I agree with the above poster.

Stiltzkin wrote:

dannyahansen wrote:If I am not mistaken the "T" tops on Randy's replica Gibson were made with Alnico III magnets. I have to admit that these pick ups in this guitar sound nothing like what I have played before. I really liked them. I have seen gibson using alnico III magnets on a few other Les Pauls latley. I think it is a good move. As I am sure these are all good pickups. I have never used any of them before. I think it import to flush out what is used on Randy's guitar though.

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electri ... onics.aspx
Here is a link that talks about the pick ups.

Oh and the Amp is a big part of the tone. So I agree with the above poster.

yeah, why would they use Alnico 3 instead of Alnico 5 ? Beats me
just goes to show that Gibson was very inconsistent even back then.
they used whatever parts they could get cheapest at the time and that's
why you don't have 2 Gibson PAFs sounding the same, cuz' they werent the same

randy will never die wrote:there is a trick were you can switch the Alnico 3 for a Alnico 5 and bom but i would recomend it for a more expercenced person thank you

Stiltzkin wrote:

randy will never die wrote:there is a trick were you can switch the Alnico 3 for a Alnico 5 and bom but i would recomend it for a more expercenced person thank you

I know about "magnet swapping", but even if someone were to do that, the wind isn't the same either...
you just don't magicall get a new pickup from changing the magnet

Stiltzkin wrote:for what it's worth...T-tops ain't so highly regarded as you might think.
it's more like your average low-to-medium output pickup and not really that fancy.

JS: Let's talk guitars.

RR: I've got a '64 cream Les Paul and a '57 black Les Paul, with three pickups. The Flying V was made by Carl Sandoval. He used to work at Charvel and he went off on his own. He made it for me. It has a DiMarzio Distortion Plus on the treble position and a DiMarzio PAF in the bass pickup. The only one of the three I wasn't playing was the Charvel. That one he made for me after I joined Ozzy. The Charvel has the Seymour Duncan Distortion pickup.

JS: What's the switch on the Charvel?

RR: That's just a toggle-switch for the pickups. The Charvel has a Charvel everything. The Flying V has all Fender parts. The Gibson, everything's stock, but the machine heads are Schaller. I have a Les Paul in the SG shape with gold pickups and a Bigsby tremolo. Charvel just made me three new guitars. One is my own design plus Charvel's, which hopefully might urn out to be one of my main guitars. There's no tremolo on that one. He's making one as an experiment with Floyd Rose. I found this guy in England who sets up tremolo arms. You don’t need Floyd Rose. I just stumbled upon him. It's so close to a Floyd Rose. The tuning is real good on it. If the guitar is set up right in the first place, Doug Chandler can do wonders with it. I was so amazed about how good it stays in tune. He did it to my white Charvel. Tremolo to me is so old now that I'm trying to not get too into it. The first thing a kid does now when he wants to guitar is go get a guitar with a tremelo arm and go back and forth. Used properly, it's great, but I don't want to get it too much into my style. I'd rather tremolo as an addition to what I'm than make noises with it.

JS: What do you look for in a guitar?

RR: Small frets. I can't play the big Every other guitar player I know has big frets. Every time I have a guitar made or buy a guitar, I have really small frets put on, almost acoustic wire.

JS: You like the double-coil sound?

RR: Yeah, but I love the Strat sound. I’m looking for an old Strat now, but live. In a trio, for what I need to hear, it’s not fat enough.

Paul Wolfe wrote:

JS: Let's talk guitars.

RR: I've got a '64 cream Les Paul and a '57 black Les Paul, with three pickups. The Flying V was made by Carl Sandoval. He used to work at Charvel and he went off on his own. He made it for me. It has a DiMarzio Distortion Plus on the treble position and a DiMarzio PAF in the bass pickup. The only one of the three I wasn't playing was the Charvel. That one he made for me after I joined Ozzy. The Charvel has the Seymour Duncan Distortion pickup.

Stiltzkin wrote:

Paul Wolfe wrote:

JS: Let's talk guitars.

RR: I've got a '64 cream Les Paul and a '57 black Les Paul, with three pickups. The Flying V was made by Carl Sandoval. He used to work at Charvel and he went off on his own. He made it for me. It has a DiMarzio Distortion Plus on the treble position and a DiMarzio PAF in the bass pickup. The only one of the three I wasn't playing was the Charvel. That one he made for me after I joined Ozzy. The Charvel has the Seymour Duncan Distortion pickup.

well, shows you how much he knew about his guitars...
the LP has been proven to be a '74 and DiMarzio never made a Distortion Plus pickup