NGD! ...LP Tribute

So I decided I want to give a 498T another try, but I can't find one with a quick connect. It's described as a hotter 490T and since I really like the 490 in this guitar I thought maybe I might like the 498 in it. I didn't care for it in the JR I used to have, but there were a lot of things I didn't like about that guitar, I might like it in this one...if I can find one to buy.

Does Gibson not sell pickups with quick connects?
 
DirtySteve said:
So I decided I want to give a 498T another try, but I can't find one with a quick connect. It's described as a hotter 490T and since I really like the 490 in this guitar I thought maybe I might like the 498 in it. I didn't care for it in the JR I used to have, but there were a lot of things I didn't like about that guitar, I might like it in this one...if I can find one to buy.

Does Gibson not sell pickups with quick connects?
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I might have one let me go look

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These both came out of my Gibsons, the 490t out of my tribute, the 498t out of my Chocolate LPJ.

I don't think they do sell them with quick connector.
Ive always had to buy quick connects off eBay or reverb and then learn how to match them up.
You can sometimes find them used on eBay or reverb with a connector. But they go pretty fast.
 
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Headache said:
I might have one let me go look

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These both came out of my Gibsons, the 490t out of my tribute, the 498t out of my Chocolate LPJ.

I don't think they do sell them with quick connector.
Ive always had to buy quick connects off eBay or reverb and then learn how to match them up.
You can sometimes find them used on eBay or reverb with a connector. But they go pretty fast.
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Are you saying you want to sell the 498?
 
Ok, I've kind of been holding off to post about this because I f'ked up. :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

So I got the 498 and put it in and instantly remembered why I didn't like the 498, but I did give it some time before giving up on it. I had one in a JR many years ago and didn't like it until I put an A2 magnet in it, then it was just ok. I'm not going to try swapping magnets in this one, I'll just chalk it up as lesson learned.

So I put the 490T back in it and now I don't like it anymore either. lol! I mean, I get why I liked it to begin with, it's aggressive and (to my ears) very balanced, nice highs which are usually my problem with most pickups, and nice tight bass. But this time it seems like it's really "fizzy, fuzzy?" sounding and it's annoying me. I don't know what changed other than my ears, I know I set it up like it was before because I took measurements before I swapped it.

So anyway, I ordered some quick connect adapters and I'm going to try some other pickups and see what I come up with. I have a box full of spare pickups so I'm sure I'll find the right combination. I'm gonna start with a JWP Darkburst reverse Zebra set that I had in my Standard for a while, but ended up wanting hotter pickups in it. They might just be perfect for this guitar as lively as it is. :fingersx:
 
Tastes change. Our ears are constantly learning more and more.

For those of us that really know what we are looking for it can take a while....
We don't know what will sound perfect in a certain guitar until the right pickup gets wired in and it finally sings like you want it to.
 
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90% of the time, my old stand by is the Seymour Duncan Distortion SH-6 or more commonly TB-6.
It sounds perfect in most guitars (to me) I have run the whole spectrum with choosing pups over the years. . . Actives, passives, Gibsons, Duncans, EMGs, DiMarzios.... and I have found a few chosen pickups that sound good in most applications. Sort of learning what I like and hate in every different scenario:
Listening to videos by the dozens, talking with gurus of tone, and learning for myself thru trial and error: what to look for if a guitar is too dark, or too bright, or lacks body or dynamics... and how to correct it.... all in the frame of reference that I live in, Metal.

Here is my extra 2 cents worth of opinion for anyone who cares to listen to me just ramble on.

Gibson pickups are plain vanilla and I don't like them: except the 500t which is great, and the BB3 which I am growing very fond of.

DiMarzio makes the X2N and it's brutal in the right guitar. But most of their pickups I don't like at all.

Dean pickups bleh... the Michael Amott tyrant pickup was ok, rest are boring.

Jackson pickups....all sucked.
Bc rich pickups.... hot, likeable but not lovable.

Seymour Duncan TB6, black winter, EMTY Blackouts, invader, and the Alt8 are my favorites by far. Sometimes the Dimebucker if it's in a Floyd guitar.

EMGs 81/85 are great if you like that sound, they are really great if you have a guitar that just sounds dead and weak and nothing seems to help.


I wish you well on your search for tone, my friend.... it is a worthwhile rabbit hole indeed.
 
Headache said:
90% of the time, my old stand by is the Seymour Duncan Distortion SH-6 or more commonly TB-6.
It sounds perfect in most guitars (to me) I have run the whole spectrum with choosing pups over the years. . . Actives, passives, Gibsons, Duncans, EMGs, DiMarzios.... and I have found a few chosen pickups that sound good in most applications. Sort of learning what I like and hate in every different scenario:
Listening to videos by the dozens, talking with gurus of tone, and learning for myself thru trial and error: what to look for if a guitar is too dark, or too bright, or lacks body or dynamics... and how to correct it.... all in the frame of reference that I live in, Metal.

Here is my extra 2 cents worth of opinion for anyone who cares to listen to me just ramble on.

Gibson pickups are plain vanilla and I don't like them: except the 500t which is great, and the BB3 which I am growing very fond of.

DiMarzio makes the X2N and it's brutal in the right guitar. But most of their pickups I don't like at all.

Dean pickups bleh... the Michael Amott tyrant pickup was ok, rest are boring.

Jackson pickups....all sucked.
Bc rich pickups.... hot, likeable but not lovable.

Seymour Duncan TB6, black winter, EMTY Blackouts, invader, and the Alt8 are my favorites by far. Sometimes the Dimebucker if it's in a Floyd guitar.

EMGs 81/85 are great if you like that sound, they are really great if you have a guitar that just sounds dead and weak and nothing seems to help.


I wish you well on your search for tone, my friend.... it is a worthwhile rabbit hole indeed.
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Yeah, this isn't my first time down this rabbit hole. I have a box full of pickups to prove it, lol. And not just swapping pickups but magnet swaps and other mods too. I've even done a few hybrids. I Never found a Dimarzio I liked and I really haven't found many SD pickups I like either, but they have a few I like.

My go to pickups the last few years (since I found them) are PlanetTone pickups. I have several of his pickups and they are all great. I also like a few Wolfetone pickups. I'm not a PAF fan, never found any I liked except the JWP Darkburst set that are clone of the pickups that were in Duane Allman's Darkburst Les Paul, hence the name. I have another JWP set that I don't like at all.

The thing that going to make this one a PITA is the quick connects. I have to be sure before I go connecting them permanent. I don't want to rewire the whole guitar like I did with my 2012 Tribute. The wiring in that one has never been right and I've completely redone it several times, it's cursed. I'm not doing that with this one.
 
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