Stephens Design Vintage Lab vs Paf Demo

Demo of the new SD pickups Vintage Lab paf clones. Recorded and shot at 48 windows music and mix, Santa Monica, California.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• paf
• vintage
• les
• paul
• burst
• sd
• pickups
• humbucker
• historic
• lp

[EntertainerCentral]

I'll probably get hate mail but I didn't like the sound of either very much!

Maybe the amp. But just meh bland to me & the OD sound is not very smooth .. its buzzy

[dretot]

@EntertainerCentral My friend, while I appreciate your comments, it seems that you have missed the point of this demo. It is to demonstrate the similarities between SD's pu's compared to real paf's. The tone of the amps is inconsequential. If you don't dig the tone, that's fine, but try to be objective and give me your opinion on the SD pu's and how they sound relative to the paf's. Thanks, dre

[EntertainerCentral]

@dretot Fair enough .. the sound signature is fairly close considering the differences in the wood, bridge & saddles. You presumably used teh same strings ... sounded like you had the condensor mic in the foreground still on yes? I seemed to hear a little accoustic sound of the guitar. If not what mic did you use please and was the amp and mic in a separate room?

[dretot]

@EntertainerCentral Thanks for that. Yes the camera mic was in the mix. Both lp's had a new set of 10's, and I set my lp up the same as the '60 (tailpiece hieght, break angle over the bridge). Amps were a '65 deluxe reverb and jtm45 clone, close mic-ed w/akg 414's in an iso both. I didn't spend much time on the amp tone since I only had the guitar for an hour, just a quick clean and dirty dry tone. Check my youtube page for the (close-mic only) version of the demo. dre

[nascobra]

First I would like to apologize for all of the idiotic questions or comments that have posted here. Anyway, the pickups sound great but I can close my eyes and hear a bit of a difference. I may be wrong but the PAF (bridge) seems to have, for lack of a better description, a more compressed chime. I'm definately going to check out the SD's, because so far they're the closest I've ever heard. p.s. Great video!

[dretot]

@nascobra Thanks for your comments. The majority of the difference is in the wood, but remember, the burst has a mid 60's pat# pu in the bridge so it has a slightly different tone. Dave's pu's are incredibly close to the paf's. Check out my vids of his vl2's and vl3's. They are even better. dre

[Juda0326]

To my ear the real 60 Paul is mellower with or without the pickups. A true test would be using the same guitar with the different sets of pickups.

[quinnmyster]

Nice. I see Dave about twice a week cause he comes in the grocery store I work at EVERY SINGLE NIGHT to buy his gallon of water and organic veggies and frozen organic dinners. He eats healthy. hahaha.. and we can't talk long about music cause his common-law-wife says, "ok Dave, let's go."

[parrotoid]

The bridge pickups were nearly identical...very nice. The PAF is slightly heavier sounding, but quite close. I'd like to hear a set in my GO.

[nascobra]

Oh I know about the differences in the wood. I own 6 LP's including a early 80's Gibson heritage 80 with Shaws(which I did switch out for a while), 2005 Gibson Jimmy Page and a couple of custom shops and everyone of them is different (just like women!).