What is your go-to guitar

83 blazer said:
No, they are actually Dimarzio PAF Joe and PAF Pro pickups with some slotted chrome covers I found on eBay for not much just to give them a different look.
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Im really interested to hear your opinion on those pickups. I've been thinking of getting the PAF joe for the neck, and the Mo Joe for the bridge, in my les paul. I'm assuming you have the Joe, in the neck?

The only opinions I've heard, we're from people who have them in an Ibanez....I was glad to see someone who actually has them in a Gibson.
 
Bocc69 said:
Im really interested to hear your opinion on those pickups. I've been thinking of getting the PAF joe for the neck, and the Mo Joe for the bridge, in my les paul. I'm assuming you have the Joe, in the neck?

The only opinions I've heard, we're from people who have them in an Ibanez....I was glad to see someone who actually has them in a Gibson.
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When I purchased the guitar, the seller was advertising it as loaded with a PAF Joe in the neck and MoJoe in the Bridge, but on taking off the pick guard to install the pickup covers it turns out to be a DP151 PAF Pro in the neck and a DP216 Mo Joe in the bridge.
I haven't had the chance to play a similar SG alongside mine but I love the pickups that are in it.
I just got home from band practice and had the chance to play it through a Fender HotRod DeVille 4X10 and it sounds phenomenal. Amp Master volume on 2 and channel volume between 2 and 3 it is a sound that makes you sit up and pay attention!
The clean sound on the neck (PAF Pro) tone at about 7/8 has a solid and controlled and articulate bottom end. The middle position (both tones set about 7/8 and the volumes around 8) is punchy with nice defined and not piercing top end to round it out. With the bridge (Mo Joe) running into that amp through a Tube Screamer clone (Behringer TO800) the sound is addictive. Just so happened I was listening to AC DC on the way to practice. Afterwards I got in the car and the CD started up on JailBreak and the tone on the opening riff is reminiscent of what this neck pickup this SG in the rig above sounds like.
Of course it sounds completely different through my AC15 using the Behringer or my Bad Monkey, but is because that style of pedal doesn't suit that amp the best.

All in all, probably a pretty poor description of what the pickups sound like in my SG, but I guess I am happy with the sounds I can get out of the guitar with what is installed in it. it is pretty comfortable playing clean as well as driven.

Here are the pickups before the covers went on.
I might start a thread and post some of the pics I took whilst I was putting the covers on so this thread doesn't diverge off into something else :)

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I'm reposting here too. My go to is still the 2014 Gibson Derek Trucks SG. Pickguard from Creamtone and now sporting a set of Throbak PG-102 pickups. I play it every day. I like my other guitars, but this one is that one I can't do without at the moment.

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chilipeppermaniac said:
But the benefits are, if you don't make a lot of money at it, at least you won't notice or care, cuz as an old sports announcer in my town used to say, " Ain't the beer cold!!!!!!!!"
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The beer is definitely a nice perk. Sipping a nicely chilled pale ale at the moment.

The best thing about it though, is knowing that 11 people make their living because of the beer I have mede the recipes for and brew, and seeing people enjoying themselves drinking my beer. I guess it's just like making music; you can't put a price on the feeling you get when you your product bringing other people joy.
 
I am lucky to have some nice guitars. Those SGs are beautiful and my first and only guitar lesson my teach had one back in 1965. People just didn't have such lovely guitars in Ireland. She told me to never come back.
When my fingers don't obey and I need to practice I play my Peavey. I love it and it just fits it all.
A 1981 Peavey T30 is the an unpopular model of an unpopular guitar maker. I will never know why, it's made in America, a copy of a Strat. A short scale and not bad looking. That just pull it together for me. Every thing is easy to play on it. I take it to open mic nights and no one knows what it is. They knows what the hell it is but it sounds good.
 
Gahr said:
The beer is definitely a nice perk. Sipping a nicely chilled pale ale at the moment.

The best thing about it though, is knowing that 11 people make their living because of the beer I have mede the recipes for and brew, and seeing people enjoying themselves drinking my beer. I guess it's just like making music; you can't put a price on the feeling you get when you your product bringing other people joy.
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Like when someone plays a guitar you made... :-)
 
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