pdizzle Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Well, I am building a V and I am currently thinking about which pickups, I am thinking | | | | [Gibson P90] NECK [bill Lawrence L-500XL] BRIDGE I play MUSE,Coheed & Cambria, Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Older Stuff (srv, acdc, jimi hendrix, led zepplin), Incubus, Motion City Soundtrack, Bullet for My Valentine. So what do yall think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMS Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 Well, I am building a V and I am currently thinking about which pickups, I am thinking | | | | [Gibson P90] NECK [bill Lawrence L-500XL] BRIDGE I play MUSE,Coheed & Cambria, Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Older Stuff (srv, acdc, jimi hendrix, led zepplin), Incubus, Motion City Soundtrack, Bullet for My Valentine. So what do yall think? Well since you asked I would use either: ‘59 & JB Seymour Duncan or Pearly Gates & CC Seymour Duncan But defiantly standard full size pups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzocchi705 Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 Id go with a normal L500, the xl will be way too hot in comparason with a P90. Also for the type of music you play you dont want a stupidly hot PU, if i remember the XL is abou 18-12ohms, about 8-12 ohm output would be fine. the 59/JB combo would be good but i imagine you want the p90 as Mr Belamy has one fitted im asuming? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert_the_damned Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 I'd use what you've already suggested but have a coil tap so you can use one coil of your XL along with the one coil of the P90. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justascratch Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 (edited) Iagree with Robert the Damned. I am partial to the P 90 though. Also depends what amp you use..effects... I don't care for the overwound pickups though. Or you could go with a good matched set of Bartolini pickups if you want it to really shine. They really have some great active electronics. The pickups sound great clean but when you switch on the electronics ...Sustain out the...... (you know what) Edited March 16, 2007 by justascratch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prs man Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 ‘59 & JB Seymour Duncan I use this combo and the sound rocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingVee Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 I think it depends on what WOOD you are using for the V body. Some woods emphasize the bass frequencies a lot so your bridge pickup will need to compensate for that. IMHO the Bill Lawrence XL is fine but tends to be somewhat muddy, so a high-bass wood might cause problems. I'm assuming the P90 will serve you for more quieter (non-distortion) passages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chennik Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 I have a an Ibanez RG (basswood body, maple neck) with an L500XL in the bridge and a Flying V (mahogany neck and body) with a Dimebucker in the bridge (Basically the same thing as a L500XL). For both of these guitars, I have a Duncan JB as the neck pickup. I heard once upon a time that a Duncan JB makes a good hot neck pickup to balance a really hot bridge pickup, particularly the super high output passive ones such as the L500XL and the Dimarzio X2N. Since I had a JB in the bridge of one of my guitars and didnt like it as a bridge pickup, I tried it in the neck on the Ibanez with the L500XL (which I wanted to try for some time). The V I bought used, and it came that way (someone else thinks along the same lines as me). Anyhow, bottom line is, this combination works really really well together. The body wood affects the tone somewhat, I can actually get a thicker tone with more bite out of the mahogany V than I can with the basswood RG. The neck pickup tone is pretty similar between the two however, on both it's loud, full, and gets decent jazzy warm clean tones and incredible hot lead tones distorted. I can get pinch harmonics and blazing legato runs with that pickup distorted. Best of all, JB's are pretty common and easy as hell to pick up used (since they are probably the most common aftermarket pickup out there). Also, with coil tapping, both of these pickups sound pretty good and flexible, and make an even match for each other in every situation I've tried. Oh yeah, another thing that works pretty cool with them is running both pickups with a phase switch. I can get great bright lead tones running them out of phase, they seem to change the EQ, but not really drop in volume like most pickup combo's do out of phase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonsg26 Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 that would definetly be an intresting combo kinda like a beefed up version of gibsons bfg in v shape instead of lp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotza_Noize Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 So what do yall think? "Yall" Love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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