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spleenharvester

spleenharvester

spleenharvester

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Longshot I know but hopefully there are a few round here, rebuilding a Gibson SG for playing mainly G'N'R, I'm stuck for choice on pickups, which of these would you take?

Tonerider Alnico IV
Tonerider Generator
Irongear Hot ****
Irongear Steam Hammer

Cheers all ;)
 
Well i've heard some good things about Tonerider, and nothing about Irongear... but it really depends on what sort of sound you want.

Oh, and this would probably be better in the Music section.
 
There's a music section? :p Could somebody move it? Cheers

I've had a Tonerider Alnico II and an Irongear Rolling Mill before, the Mill was better suited to my strat and the Tonerider just wasn't what I was looking for. I'm leaning towards a hot **** in the neck and a generator in the bridge.

The Tonerider just didn't have the right tone to it, it was decent on clean setting but under overdrive it sounded bad. The irongear just didn't seem, well, heavy enough.

Both quality pickups eitherway.
 
I can't say anything about the Toneriders, but I have a pair of Hot Slags (potential for a whole load of out-of-context quoting, there) in my Epiphone G400 and they're good for that kind of rock tone. :)
 
Well just a quick google turns up a few reviews saying the Tonerider Generator has the edge over Irongear's offerings for almost exactly the same price. The Alnico IVs would be somewhat different to all your other options - what would you be playing?
 
Tonerider have put their prices up, these are £39.85 a piece now, back in the day they used to be £23 :( Still great value on both though, the other pair were confused for Seymours a few times.

I think I've just about narrowed it down to either the Generators or the Hot Slags, or a combination. Leaning towards the Hots but not sure just yet. :p

Playing Guns N' Roses stuff, mainly UYI I/II. Have 500k CTS 450s with 0.47uf caps for the record.

I'm thinking I'll stay away from the Alnico IV and Steam Hammers for now, the AIVs aren't what I'm looking for and there's just not enough audio on the Steam Hammers.

Thankyou for all the opinions so far, much more helpful than UG Community lol.
 
spleenharvester said:
Thankyou for all the opinions so far, much more helpful than UG Community lol.
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Ha, most of my information comes from time spent on TDPRI musing about building a guitar from scratch (i was leaning towards a LP Jr but the cost of tools/stress caused by not using tools led to me dropping it... until i'm in a better financial situation). Anyway, as i see it between the Generators and the Slags it's a matter of one being better but more expensive, and the other being worse but cheaper. From Youtube it looks like you'd be happy with either, but i'm sure we all know that the right amp can make any guitar sound amazing :p
 
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Ha, most of my information comes from time spent on TDPRI musing about building a guitar from scratch (i was leaning towards a LP Jr but the cost of tools/stress caused by not using tools led to me dropping it... until i'm in a better financial situation). Anyway, as i see it between the Generators and the Slags it's a matter of one being better but more expensive, and the other being worse but cheaper. From Youtube it looks like you'd be happy with either, but i'm sure we all know that the right amp can make any guitar sound amazing :p
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Fair play. I wanted to do an LP from scratch but I also didn't have tools, plus I can't bloody afford anything high end :p

This isn't actually a Gibson, it's a Liberty L106GX I got for £80, the electronics are (or were) complete trash but the body is surprisingly good quality.

http://www.axetec.co.uk/axetec guitar parts spares pickups_032.htm

http://www.dangleberrymusic.co.uk/p...up-generator-pickup-in-black-white-zebra.aspx

One or the other really, budget's £80 for both pickups so it isn't really an issue. Still on the fence, both seem to sound amazing!

I only have a horrible practice amp and DS1 but luckily, the Marshalls at college are decent.
 
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