Ok so I still have power and internet. Ian slammed into Port Charlotte as a very strong Category 4, just a skootch below Cat 5.
That's the worst it's been in over a decade.
It won't get over where I am until tomorrow morning but I expect conditions to worsen through the night.
But for now, my soldering iron is still hot! Woohooo!
I installed the new Lollar P90's I ordered (and mentioned in my "What's in the Mailbox" thread.)
I got a 50's Wind for the neck and Standard wind for the bridge.
Lollar's are typically vintage output. In this case the 50's Wind neck came in at 7.3k and the Bridge 9.3k.
The original Epiphone Pickups both came in around 8.03k. Yet they sounded hotter and had higher output. Just goes to show you can't rely on resistance alone to judge output.
The Epiphone P90's are actually very good sounding pickups. They did a great job recreating the 50's style P90 and a testament to how good this guitar is all around.
I was a bit on the fence about whether to even upgrade the pickups at all, but the neck on the Epi was a bit warmer and muddier than I wanted. (And as
@Dan0h observed, my GAS can get fairly motivated hahah).
It's not a "glaring night and day difference" but rather subtle. Which again, speaks volumes of how good the Epiphone P90's are.
Anyway, some before and after clips below. All the settings were identical. The Epi's had a bit more output. I would typically use a boost which I did not for these clips.
Just some light compression, reverb, delay and my Space Heater tube pedal at the end of the chain for some warmth.
Epiphone Neck Pickup Clean:
Lollar Neck Pickup Clean:
Epiphone Neck Pickup "pushed" with the Cattle Driver at low gain
Lollar Neck "Pushed"
Continued in next post....
