Guitarbilly wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:35 pm
Seth Lovers are great pickups. I've been thinking about using them again. In the past I had issues with feedback with them because they are not potted but honestly I don't use that much gain these days.
I haven't had an issue at all with feedback so far, and I'm using a fair amount of gain. I am mostly playing my Uber with the gain at 1-2 o'clock and an SD-1 or Tubescreamer as a mostly clean boost. Of course I haven't been gigging or even playing with a band since I've acquired these guitars, so if and when I do, that may change things.
yeah these things tend to show up at band levels, usually during practice or on small stages. At a larger stage it's usually fine too. But if you have to stand less than 10ft away from your amp and it's turned up to a loud volume, it can be a problem. But I think I can get away with it at my current gain levels.
Btw, what didn't you like about the High Voltages? I was going to buy a set to try them out... now I am not sure
The High Voltage were very clean, very dry, not much sustain at all, too punchy. I like the Seth Lovers because they are very saturated and thick sounding. Lots of sustain, squishy. They sound like a much hotter pickup than you would think based on their impedance. I'm sure the High Voltage set would be great with a very loud, chimey amp. They'd probably sound great through a cranked plexi or something like that.
I even tried the High Voltage set at different heights. Some pickups need to be closer to or farther away from the strings to give up the goods. I just couldn't make them work for me, and let's face it, I had a set of Lovers ready to go, so why fuck around with these when I know the Lovers will sound exactly how I like?
You might like them though.
Last edited by Zeegler on Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I haven't had an issue at all with feedback so far, and I'm using a fair amount of gain. I am mostly playing my Uber with the gain at 1-2 o'clock and an SD-1 or Tubescreamer as a mostly clean boost. Of course I haven't been gigging or even playing with a band since I've acquired these guitars, so if and when I do, that may change things.
yeah these things tend to show up at band levels, usually during practice or on small stages. At a larger stage it's usually fine too. But if you have to stand less than 10ft away from your amp and it's turned up to a loud volume, it can be a problem. But I think I can get away with it at my current gain levels.
Btw, what didn't you like about the High Voltages? I was going to buy a set to try them out... now I am not sure
The High Voltage were very clean, very dry, not much sustain at all, too punchy. I like the Seth Lovers because they are very saturated and thick sounding. Lots of sustain, squishy. They sound like a much hotter pickup than you would think based on their impedance. I'm sure the High Voltage set would be great with a very loud, chimey amp. They'd probably sound great through a cranked plexi or something like that.
I even tried the High Voltage set at different heights. Some pickups need to be closer too or farther away from the strings to give up the goods. I just couldn't make them work for me, and let's face it, I had a set of Lovers ready to go, so why fuck around with these when I know the Lovers will sound exactly how I like?
You might like them though.
This was my impressions about the HV humbucker as well. Too dry, punchy, and not quite compressed enough. Probably great if you're Angus wailing away in to a crank NMV Plexi. I definitely wasn't a fan. I got them because I figured they would be a different flavor of the Pearly Gates as Angus was using those in his SG's for a while. The High Voltage pickups are definitely their own animal.
I've always wanted to try out the Seth Lover humbuckers as it seams they would be up my ally tone wise. I just don't think unpotted humbuckers would go well with my amp rig at band volume.
trey85stang2 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:17 pm
the x had that weird pick gaurd right? they look real good. I have always wanted one.
It is my belief that the early ones came either without the pickguard, or it was included but not installed. Mine has never had a pickguard installed on it. There may have been a transitional period between the SG-1 and SG-X. Maybe they had some SG-1s still kicking around the factory and put SG-X truss rod covers on them? The original owner of mine swears that the truss rod cover is original. The serial number makes it a 2000 which is well after the SG-1 was discontinued and well into SG-X production. In fact 2000 was the last year for the SG-X. So maybe it has nothing to do with it being an early one, but maybe more to do with how much weed the builders had smoked that day?
I would really like to find one of the army green ones. preferably without a pickguard.
