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New Pickup Day: Travis Morris PAF Style HBs

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:31 am
by V_____
I have never actually owned a guitar that has PAF style pickups in it and, since I build pedals, I figured I should probably have one at least for testing purposes.

So, I contacted a guy who has made me a lot of custom pickups in the past, Travis Morris. Decided on going with a pair of Alnico 4 PAF type pickups with a brushed nickel cover style. Holy crap these things sound good:

Made three clips out of a long recording:

First is just clean straight into my amp:
https://soundcloud.com/shoepedals2/clea ... orris-pafs

Next is with a Strymon Timeline:
https://soundcloud.com/shoepedals2/trav ... -pafs-with

Then finally did one with some fuzz:
https://soundcloud.com/shoepedals2/shoe ... -paf-style


Oh yeah, they're also beautiful to look at:
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Re: New Pickup Day: Travis Morris PAF Style HBs

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 1:35 am
by goroth
Awesome!

Re: New Pickup Day: Travis Morris PAF Style HBs

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 6:28 am
by coldbrightsunlight
Cool! They sound good in those clips, and I always love the brushed metal look.

Re: New Pickup Day: Travis Morris PAF Style HBs

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:27 pm
by V_____
Yeah, I've never had brushed metal HBs before but I think I may get some more for my maplecaster :) Those will be different in design, though. Those will be quad coil humbuckers.

Oh and yeah you can make these sound darker too. I have them set fairly far from the strings and my pole pieces are elevated a fair amount on one half. Baby steps single coil self

Re: New Pickup Day: Travis Morris PAF Style HBs

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:36 pm
by Bellyheart
Holy hell...gorgeous.