My main axe.. Epiphone Les Paul, i don't really know wut model it is. A guitar store guy once said that it has the LP Classic type of neck (60's slim tapered). Well, it is kinda slim, but i never really played any other LP, so dont really know if it is really 60's slim type of neck. Anyway, come stock for the pickup was the Burstbucker (pot waxed) for neck and bridge. Probably alnico i think. But then, i've changed both the pickup earlier this year to Dimarzio's.
Originally planned to changed to EMG's (81 for the bridge and 89 for the neck), but coz of availability and price factor, decided to chose Dimarzio's. Bought both of 'em from ToneZone Studio (sadly had closed down). I chose the pickup based on wut was avaible there. after weeks of 'research' (mostly reading review from Harmony-Central.com), i chose the Tone Zone for the bridge and Air Norton for the neck.
The tone i was looking for is FAT! FAT! FAT! Hate those thin tone especially for cleans. Used the pickup selector from dimarzio.com to help me decide. I wanted good clean (& fat!), and also somewhat aggresive distortion for the bridge. Long story short, Tone Zone and Air Norton was chosen. Both also installed with push-pull potentiometer for the tone controls where i'll get to change from humbucker to single-coil setting for each pickup by just pull of push the tone control.
Now, for clean mostly i use neck pickup or centre(both). n oftenly in the single-coil mode for neck. Got a great n sweeeeeeet clean tone when using neck only in single-coil. add a bit touch of chorus; total haven! The bridge, clean isn't that good but not bad. Distortion is great. Good dynamics, note definition and balanced tone. Just great!
