Black is beautiful!!!

[rufes]

Zorglub! and me we have 2 conversions. Both with PAFs

One of them (Julio's) is a rocker while mine is quite fat and mellow. He changed the PAFs between them and while there were some small changes, the character of each guitar was still there.

The tone is in the wood. Then the pickup transforms that tone into a signal.

JJ Blair, back to your analogy, whatever capsule you use, the voice is the most important factor. The full mic will just convert the voice into a signal (like the pickups).

 

[JJ Blair]

You obviously have lots of experience and know what you are doing. Just for fun, take one of the better sounding PAF's if you think there is one... maybe one with the strongest character of voice, then drop it in maybe a PRS, then an import Tele clone or others like that. You will many times end up with the worst sounding pickup you could imagine..... yet something like a DiMarzio will sound somewhat decent AND similar in all. PAF's are not always such a great pickup, in some cases just about the worst yet they are able to reproduce something in certain guitars with favorable resonance that no other pickup can.

But then I would have to own a PRS! :wah

Due to the PAF's microphonics, I can totally see that happening. I always thought PRS guitars were akin to a toilet seat with a guitar neck on it. Every single one I've played or had to record lacked a crisp transient, dynamics, bloom, overtone, sustain ... everything I like about LPs.

But that's slightly off topic. My point was simply how in an LP, the wide variation of PAFs seems to really have such a huge impact, and comparing two LPs' sound must take into account the pups, and not just the top sheet material.

 

[rockinlespaul]

Rockin, you and I can be founding members of the LPF Black Caucus.

:yah

 

[j45]

I always thought PRS guitars were akin to a toilet seat with a guitar neck on it. Every single one I've played or had to record lacked a crisp transient, dynamics, bloom, overtone, sustain ... everything I like about LPs.

He said it....not me! :jim

 

[585960]

PRS.....agreed, hard for me to get around them also......I do think its the sum of all the parts that create a total sound for a Les Paul. The only part I can/could never hear was the frets...the fretboard, the top, the pickups, etc....but here it comes again, the over ANALization as to why it is...........sorry guys...