Seymour Duncan EVH

[plexisoloist]

Just ordered my second from MJ at the custom shop. They keep a record of all your past purchases. Pulled up my info. and remembered me from the last time because I ordered a yellow one. She doesn't do many in that color (yellow in a red warmoth soloist body). She had all my prior spec's (resistance and gauss). This pickup, without a doubt is everything it's claimed to be. Not for the inexperienced. Very and I mean very attack and volume sensitive. I currently run a 74 Marshall 50W/4X12BX through a Hotplate. I run the line out on the hotplate to a Marshall 9100 50/50 rack head and into 2 Fender Tone Master 2X12 cabs. Also 3 eq's,flanger,phaser and delay in the chain. The early EVH sound is easily acheived with this setup and pickup. Curious if anyone else has tried this pickup.

[~K~]

Re: Seymour Duncan EVH

Yep, I have one in my bullseye that was custom wound for me... Great pickup ..

[hippietim]

Re: Seymour Duncan EVH

+1 I love them.

[shreddermon]

Re: Seymour Duncan EVH

Agreed. Awesome pickup. Too bad it's custom shop only.

[plexisoloist]

Re: Seymour Duncan EVH

Has anyone tried mounting straight to the body vs. springs and screws and if so what were the differences? I realize body and neck woods play a role.

[Tooling]

Re: Seymour Duncan EVH

I have one in an SLATQH.....I like but I wish it was a tad hotter.

[MBreinin]

Re: Seymour Duncan EVH

I have a home brewed version that is a combination of a Custom and a '59. It is a very open and warm pickup, but it does lack a little juice. Has that saggy bottom end and overall roundness of tone. Mine is even a little hotter than the real EVH, it pegs out at 10.5 ohms.

It is in my maple SD Charvel, it replaced a smoking hot Schaller Hot Stuff. I am still trying to get used to it.

Mike

[Tooling]

Re: Seymour Duncan EVH

I think an EVH, 12.5-13 ohm version with a bit of a tighter bass would be about perfect. The mids are just right and the highs are never ice picky....the bass just has a bit of a thickness to it that is a bit difficult to dial out however it is most definately solid....don't get me wrong it's good but by the time I've toned the bass down w/ my amps eq it starts getting a bit thinner sounding than what I like so I go to the mids to try and compensate and my amp already being pretty mid heavy...it's a fine line. It's like ,"just about there", for me.