JPP-1
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I bought the Slash OX4s on a whim from the Music Zoo. For 200 I figured, I really can’t loose. I didn’t expect to like them. These pickups when rolled back can almost get that Peter Green jangly honk without flipping the pickup. I mean these are the most articulate pickups I’ve experienced rolled back and cranked up they just sing with a lush vowelly crunch that’s brimming with overtones.
I liked the Slash’s so much that I ordered the OX4 low output set and the Beanos. Both sets easily replaced the custombuckers which I had always felt were very good. But these OXs are just more sounds like the record. It’s like going from say a short grey plate 12AX7 to an RCA long black plate 12AX7 that’s just on the verge of becoming microphonic. The articulation and depth is stunning and the wood just feels more alive coming through these pups.
The OX4s are the closest I’ve experienced to real PAFs. I have some amazing relatively early PAT# pickups in my 345 but I think I like the OX4s better. At least the Beanos and Slash’s. A second pair of Slash’s even replaced the Rewind JP Post72s as I think they just seem to work better getting that Sibly tone especially in the middle and neck position at least in my TH R9. I really like the rewinds too, they are the only other pickups I liked better than the custombuckers so I may visit them in another Les Paul. But the OX4 Slash’s, especially the neck and neck+bridge tone was just more open and nuanced and really captured that glassy jazziness and honk Page gets
From a pickup swap skeptic to a real believer, the OX4s have been the best I’ve tried kudos to Mark Stowe.
I liked the Slash’s so much that I ordered the OX4 low output set and the Beanos. Both sets easily replaced the custombuckers which I had always felt were very good. But these OXs are just more sounds like the record. It’s like going from say a short grey plate 12AX7 to an RCA long black plate 12AX7 that’s just on the verge of becoming microphonic. The articulation and depth is stunning and the wood just feels more alive coming through these pups.
The OX4s are the closest I’ve experienced to real PAFs. I have some amazing relatively early PAT# pickups in my 345 but I think I like the OX4s better. At least the Beanos and Slash’s. A second pair of Slash’s even replaced the Rewind JP Post72s as I think they just seem to work better getting that Sibly tone especially in the middle and neck position at least in my TH R9. I really like the rewinds too, they are the only other pickups I liked better than the custombuckers so I may visit them in another Les Paul. But the OX4 Slash’s, especially the neck and neck+bridge tone was just more open and nuanced and really captured that glassy jazziness and honk Page gets
From a pickup swap skeptic to a real believer, the OX4s have been the best I’ve tried kudos to Mark Stowe.