What would you recommend?

[Ryaan]

what would you recommend for pickups for my 06' Epiphone Les Paul Standard.

 

Something not very expensive but really effective sound wise?

[Ryaan]

i bought it a while ago and have only just came to the conclusion

^ i should have stated that and im sorry

 

 

 

as for amp, i sold my amp i used in aid of buying another and im just waiting for the right thing to pop up (eye on something in the shop)

 

im just working with a small fender practise amp.

 

but i was going to buy some new pickups a while ago but i didn't for some reason.

[PP_CS336]

I would buy a good amp before..........

 

Peter

 

I agree with Peter. I used to have a Fender DSP Stage amp. It was Solid State and really didn't make my Sheraton II

or Les Paul Standard sound that great. In the new band I joined last year the other guitar player had a Vox AC330.

I went to Alto Music in Middletown, NY and brought my own guitar (the Sheri) to test a Vox AC30CC2 they had.

It made all the difference in the world. I bought the Vox amp and both my Epiphone guitars still have their stock

pickups and sound just fine.

[Ryaan]

Thank you for the advise, i'll bare what you said in mind.

 

Ryan-

[ladyscaglyc]

The guys are right.

Amp first, but if you simply must play with a soldering iron,

look at GFS (Guitar Fetish) for short money, amazing array of PUs.

[blw74]

I second the AMP suggestion. I had been playing through a Peavey KB 300 (which is buy no means a guitar amp) and it sounded so bad that I never played my electric guitar. I also tried the AMPLITUDE amp software out of the computer and through my hi-fi. That actually worked to produce pretty good tones.

 

I recently Demo'd a bunch of different AMPs and settled on the CARR Mercury.

 

In my experience an good AMP works wonders on both good and bad guitars.

 

A great guitar will sound terrible though an AMP with no tone.

 

Once you have an AMP with good tone can then focus on the source.

[AS90]

Irongear pickups are getting rave reviews at the moment. Quite cheap too!

[GladToBeBack]

get an amp you like first.

 

I was considering putting new pups in my Lp, my tones was bad and I thought they would make the difference. I was just running a distortion pedal into a mixer with no amp.

 

Now, eventhough purists and snobs do not like my amp, I have the Line 6 Spider IV and it made a world of difference. I am by no means making a recommendation, listen to some amps and find what you like and what creates the tone you want. I'm just say from exp that I now have the sound I was after and my Lp is still stock.

[jonnyg]

I second the AMP suggestion. I had been playing through a Peavey KB 300 (which is buy no means a guitar amp) and it sounded so bad that I never played my electric guitar. I also tried the AMPLITUDE amp software out of the computer and through my hi-fi. That actually worked to produce pretty good tones.

 

I recently Demo'd a bunch of different AMPs and settled on the CARR Mercury.

 

In my experience an good AMP works wonders on both good and bad guitars.

 

A great guitar will sound terrible though an AMP with no tone.

 

Once you have an AMP with good tone can then focus on the source.

I used to double on guitar and bass so I used the Peavey KB300 with a Pod as the front end. The Pod simulations were so good that coupled with the almost Hi-Fi spec of the Peavey it was the best setup I ever used. The Peavey was also a great for Acoustics plugged straight in.

[Ryaan]

yeah thanks, im going amp testing today, im going to take my les paul, see what it's sounding like in other amps.