Gibson Joe Perry Signature Bridge Pickup

This is a demo of a Gibson USA Joe Perry Signature bridge pickup that was installed into an Epiphone Les Paul Custom Limited Edition Guitar (into the bridge pickup spot). Only the bridge pickup is used and the tone knob is set at "5" throughout the video. I alternate between volume of "5" and "10" on the guitar for demos of both the clean and crunch channels of my amp. The amp is a Marshall JCM 2000 TSL 100 head with a full stack of 1960 lead cabinets. The top cab is mic'd with a Shure SM-57 mic going straight into my mixing board (which goes to the sound card of my computer). The bottom end tone does not come out very well in the video, and I believe it is from my cheap Behringer Mixing board "clipping" due to the high output of the low tones (especially during the crunch demo). In person, the low end is very tight and crunchy. The gain on the amp is set at 50% for both the gain and crunch and a little reverb from the amp is added. I saw this pickup on ebay and I had to try it. It is not as bright as a Gibson 498T, but when you are using a lot of gain on your amp (as I suppose Joe Perry does), you really don't want too much brightness anyway. This pickup comes out to be a nice rounded tone, best suited for classic or hard rock. I would have to say that I prefer it over the 498T (too midrangey), the Burstbucker (too muddy) and of course the stock Epiphone "Alnico Classics" (well rounded, just cheap-sounding).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gibson
• Joe
• Perry
• Signature
• bridge
• pickup
• Epiphone
• Les
• Paul
• Custom
• Limited
• Edition
• Chrome
• Marshall
• JCM
• 2000
• TSL
• 100
• head
• 1960
• lead
• full
• stack
• cabinet
• Shure
• SM-57

[slimyesli]

lol a full stack in a bedroom FTW man