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Jahuli
09-08-2005, 03:18 AM
I want a real accurate eddie tone using only one of these seymour duncan humbucker pickups:

http://www.warmoth.com/pickups/pickups.cfm?fuseaction=pickups_g_seymour
BrownSound1
09-08-2005, 09:31 AM
Ok, for stock Seymour Duncan you need a Custom Custom. HOWEVER...buck up and spend the extra cash on their EVH 1978 custom shop model. THAT pickup is apparently dead nuts on.
Brett
09-08-2005, 04:40 PM
I swear by Duncan Customs, and can get a very warm tone with them. I find Custom Customs to be a little too bright and harsh. Just my opinion though.
BrownSound1
09-09-2005, 01:22 AM
Same pickup as a Custom but with a weaker magnet. I don't find it to be bright at all, but they might be in a maple fingerboard guitar. (Mine resides in a rosewood fingerboard Kramer)

I think the key to Ed's early tone is not having too strong of a pickup. You certainly couldn't achieve that tone with say a DiMarzio Super Distortion or a Duncan Invader. I would stay around the PAF area for a good approximation. I have heard a convincing VH1 tone done with a Duncan JB...of course it didn't hurt that the guy playing was using a '68ish Marshall Super Lead either.