Lollar Imperial Low Wind PAF Pickup Demo [ES345]
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- To see how this set of Lollar Imperial Low Wind PAF's compare side by side with Throbak, ReWind Electric, Holmes, Wizz Premium Clone, and Gibson MHS PAF's click here: • BIGGEST PAF COMPARISON...
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I've been considering the Low Wind Imperials for my 335, and this demo just clinched it. Thanks for doing this!
Shout out to the poor fella that's so traumatized by me he dislikes every video as soon as it's live. Thanks for the views and subscription to keep up with all my uploads! I hope you find some happiness in life very soon 😊
I really appreciate what you do.
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I think that was Seymour Duncan
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Oh man this demo was spot on!! I’ve got Lollar imperials in my 335 and it sounds just like these.. I like their tone, but don’t love them in the 335, about to change mine out for something a little hotter and fatter sounding... really liked you demo of the Wizz pickups and the Holms in this guitar!!! But not the price 😳
That’s a bad ass Gibson, so unique in the finish and inlays, way to make an instrument your own.
Duuude! These sound unbelievable in this 345. I don't see how it gets better than this. I was looking to get them for my Paul. Now I think I'm gonna have to go get a 345.
I have the regular Imperials in an Eastman and I love them. Just decided to put low winds in a Japanese Epiphone Les Paul and this video made me very happy with my decision.
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Very nice comparison! I am waiting for your comments and your preferences as you did with the Les Paul PAF shootout. Thanks for these nice videos.
Having some computer issues and pc parts are impossible to buy right now so it's a bit difficult. It'll be made just might take a couple more weeks.
I have the Lollar Dirty Blonde-set on my Suhr Custom Strat and they are honestly . . . Phenomenal. Actually ended my pickup-search. oNe LovE from NYC
I listened to this with Bose earbuds. This 345 with those pick ups through the AC30 really caught my attention.
Woah man! Great job! I just got a Epiphone Sheraton MIK. Been thinking about the High wound but now I want the Low ones
Thanks! Enjoyed that one. I have a set of those pickups.. now I need to purchase a home for them.. lol.. :)
I love that a $400 set of pickups is the LEAST expensive in this series . . .
🤷♂️ People, including me, want to see how the top tier PAF's sound in comparison to eachother. I bought or secured these all myself, there's plenty I would have liked to include but couldn't for various reasons. Really these tests are me doing what I'd be doing regardless of a youtube channel or not, I was trying to find the right set for my guitar and I wasn't interested in buying a budget pickup to put in an expensive high end guitar. Ymmv 🙂
Great demo
Really nice playing!
I have Lollar Imperials in my PRS Custom 24 very nice
I’m thinking low wind anything will sound good
Awesome review!!! Would you be doing some reviews on fralin pure paf or fralin modern paf ??
I'd love to try the pure paf's some day, heard good things!
@@YeatzeeGuitar yes same here ill deff would try a pure paf on the neck and a modern paf on the bridge
Sounds awesome. I’m debating between this or a Set of Lambertones Crema neck/Grinder bridge for P&W stuff !! Which one do you recommend me?
I've never used those before, but I do know they're very popular in p&w land. Hard for me to say because I have no direct experience, but I will say I met and hung out with the man behind Lambertone at NAMM and he was a great guy. If no other reason then that I'd say give his stuff a try.
nice video, good job
The tones on these sound great! I’m super torn about sticking a set of these in my Gibson SG Standard Maestro Vibrola. I’m not in love with the stock 61’s, and these sound excellent but it’s hard justifying another $300+ for pickups on a 2k guitar. Plus I can’t try them first 😞
The great thing is you can probably sell your current set of pickups and recoup at least a chunk of that investment. If you're not happy with the stock pickups you'll play the guitar less and the 2k guitar becomes more or less worthless. My 2 cents :)
@@YeatzeeGuitar that’s a fair point. I’ve never swapped pickups before in a guitar, so i forget it’s an option!
They’re nice pickups so I’m sure someone would like them, they’re just weird in the midrange for my taste, but maybe that’s more an SG thing.
4:02 clean
Low wind = t tops level. They're not that low wind, they're perfect.
Wow sound shrill to me! Think original 57's on 335 sound way better with ritcher mids & bloom 🤔 thease might be clearer but actually ice pickey
They do sound ice pick shrill to me also , kind of like it . I have these on my 2021 335 I bought used with them already installed by previous owner . Don't sound as shrill as these . Maybe it's the amp settings
Do you find the lollars to be less harsh than Gibson pickups? I have two non gibson guitars and I realized they are not as harsh as all my Gibson’s . The funny part is they are both brighter and clearer sounding than all my Gibson’s too.
But what confused me was being brighter and also WAY less harsh. Playing loudly with distortion is just significantly more pleasant and so I’m wondering if the lollars do this too.
I also wonder why my Gibson’s sound so brash and lack clarity all in one lol
I've honestly never heard anyone describe Gibsons as harsh sounding! I felt like the lollar low winds did get harsh at times, the stock MHS pickups were much warmer and no where near harsh imo
I keep coming back to these as a more affordable, yet still killer set of PAF style pups, as opposed to the more expensive offerings from ThroBak and ReWind etc. But I'm questioning whether or not that low wind neck PU is just a little too weak, giving it more, almost too much top end. I wonder if a regular Lollar Imperial in the Neck and then a low wind in the bridge would be the perfect match?
That's interesting! Most do the opposite, low wind neck regular bridge
@@YeatzeeGuitar Definitely interesting! Also apologies for spamming so many of your videos with comments lol - just found your channel and you have a bunch of relevant content for what I'm currently going through now too haha. What did you find to be your "sweet spot" for neck and bridge output?
@@CargoShorts7 I bought low wind neck and high wind bridge, wish me luck 😅
@@nowhereman1402 Nice! Curious to hear how they sound once you get them in your axe!
This saturday that past i went to a friends House to get some pickups he gave me i got a Gibson 57+ classic and a lollar imprerial pickup minie was made in 2012 so how can i find out if it’s low wind
love the demo of both pickups by the way they sound awesome
Just measure the resistance with a multimeter. Google/youtube it and people will show how :)
Excellent! What are your pick-up heights on these?
Thanks! Don't recall the measurements, but this video is a piece out of a much bigger test where I compared these and several others sets side by side and the heights were all equalized more or less.
Would you say the set is well balanced? I have an ‘87 Es-335 with its original pickups and I find the neck to be muddy and the bridge to be harsh and aggressive: when I set my amp to have a nice throaty for the nick pickup, the bridge is very ice-picky. Conversely, when I set the amp for a nice tone for the bridge, the neck pickup is very muddy.
Yes I would. However have you tried setting the tone for the neck but rolling back the bridge tone control to like 5 or so? That sometimes works well
@@YeatzeeGuitar ok cool. I do use the bridge tone rolloff trick, however I do like switching to the in between sound with both tones on full. Moreover, the original PUs have never had that vintage type sound I’m after.
If you haven't yet, check out my full comparison video where I put these side by side with 6 other PAF sets. I also just uploaded a video where I give my thoughts on each set, this one included.
Very nasty high mids ice pick frequencies on the bridge; is the A5 magnet the culprit? Are these potted?
Not potted
@@YeatzeeGuitar this is from the loollar website ''Though most manufacturers did not wax pot their pickups in the 1950s and 60s, we choose to pot our pickups because of the strength and stability it adds to the coil. We frequently see coils shifting in vintage and modern unpotted pickups which often leads to the need of costly repair or outright replacement. We feel that the added stability and protection of the coil outweighs any perceived improvement in tone.
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@@jfar3340 if I remember correctly these were the most microphonic of the bunch. Watch the full video comparison I did, I believe I talk about it..
@@YeatzeeGuitar thanks man amazing content, i liked and subscribed cheers
Do you like the low winds split?
Never tried it!
YEATZ! Wanna sell me them MHS ?! I have an imperial low wind in the neck of one of my teles too
Btw JJN Can You Feel It is such a great riff! These sound great with the PT15
I'm gonna hang onto the MHS, I actually like em a lot! Much prefer these over my CB's that came in my LP.
@@YeatzeeGuitar the MHS are like unicorns. No luck finding them anywhere! I'd keep them too. The low winds sound great too
Nothing completely clean??
Plenty of clean tones, nothing DI clean but that's a pretty niche sound. Vox was set clean, Princeton was set about as clean as you can get them with humbuckers.
Bugger, was hoping straight clean out of an AC30! these compare to the T-Type calibrated humbuckers? They sound amazing
@@Harrisabd I mean you could get a straight clean if you really wanted, but I think most would find those tones anemic. Certainly no where near edge of breakup here, but not amp on 1.5 clean :)
All that and no real clean tones. Oh well.
Do you play your Humbucker guitar through a jc120 with no pedals or what?
@@YeatzeeGuitar l don't have the JC now, l use an AER jazz master. I don't use overdrive, crunch, delay, modulation.... just a little reverb like all the jazz guitarists l know. I'm trying to research the most suitable neck paf but most of the vids show only hi-gain. l can'y tell much from that. l do play funk/fusion but l have a Tele with singles for that. How are you doing?
@@lofcwomen-com I show at least 5-6 different gain variations here, only a couple of which you could consider high gain. The reality is that the vast vast majority of Humbucker players run their amps or pedals with a touch of gain, it's almost impossible not to get gain with humbuckers if you play gigs even with a fender twin. This and my other pickup videos should give more than enough insight into how the various pickups tested differ. If you haven't already, check the full comparison video this was cut from to see how another 6 or so paf clones compare.
@@YeatzeeGuitar I know l'm an oddball re: guitar tone so l've come to expect scant interest from others. I'm looking at a Lollar Imperial (ua-cam.com/video/EZb_Op723sw/v-deo.html) or perhapsa simple Gibson 57.
Everything is distorted, can’t actually hear the pickup at all. Useless
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