tbonesullivan Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 MEIN GOTT!!!! That looks incredible. Just awesome.
rockabilly69 Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 If I get banned for this so be it, HOLY SHIT that rig looks awesome. I love the pickguard on H150s and your's looks great. If it sounds have as good as it looks you are going to love it!!! Congrats.
HANGAR18 Posted June 24, 2014 Author Posted June 24, 2014 If I get banned for this so be it, HOLY $H!+ that rig looks awesome. I love the pickguard on H150s and your's looks great. If it sounds have as good as it looks you are going to love it!!! Congrats. Thanks! Yes, it does sound great. The Seth Lovers are staying in it.
rockabilly69 Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 Thanks! Yes, it does sound great. The Seth Lovers are staying in it. I've said it before, I'm a fan of Seth Lover pickups. As a matter of fact I like alot of Seymour Duncan pickups. I have a set of Alnico II pros in my Strat that have been there since the 80s, and a set of Peter Green Custom Shop pickups in my H150. He was the one of the original boutique winders, and knows quite a bit about what makes a pickup sound good. One of the best guitars I've heard in the last few years was a Frankenstrat assembled by one of my close friends and he used a SD Slash humbucker in it. I was floored by how good it sounded. And I sold my first H150 here on this forum and it had a great set of Seth Lovers in it! The neck pickup on that guitar just sang! I also like the Antiquity humbuckers although I like to use a full strength magnet on the bridge pickup. I also have a SD SA6 magnetic soundhole pickup that I move in and out of acoustic guitars that I don't want to drill for a permanent pickups. It also incorporates a microphone in it. Enough about pickups... Once again, congrats on a great new guitar!
Gitfiddler Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 Interesting side bar discussion about the pickups in Hangar's beautiful new 150 Custom. It also shows that our own HOC member, Skydog52 has great taste in p'ups for his Green Oak Guitar selections. The other 150 he has is another visual stunner, and is loaded with none other than Throbak SLE's! Keep up the good work, Paul.
HANGAR18 Posted June 25, 2014 Author Posted June 25, 2014 The last time I was at the factory, I asked Ren Wall a question about pickups (shocking, right?) which went something like... Since the HRW pickups and the H-Kazoo pickups are no longer available, what is Heritage Guitar going to do for a standard pickup to install in their guitars? He then rattled off the names of a handful of different pickups that he thought were really good. If memory serves, I believe SD Seth Lovers were included in that short list as well as Antiquities and Thro-baks. Memory is fuzzy and I wish I had it on video but I think that's pretty close. So my point is that I am not surprised that these pickups sound the way they do. One of the characteristics of these pickups is that you can hear every little detail in the strings as you play. I have different guitars which all have different pickups in them. Some, I can play sloppy and the slop is covered up while others, like these Seth Lovers allow you to hear every little movement of finger against string. The tone is great but it also forces me to try and play better so that I don't hear all those little squeaks and stuff every time I move a finger from one string to another. The Seth Lovers stay in this guitar.
rockabilly69 Posted June 25, 2014 Posted June 25, 2014 The last time I was at the factory, I asked Ren Wall a question about pickups (shocking, right?) which went something like... Since the HRW pickups and the H-Kazoo pickups are no longer available, what is Heritage Guitar going to do for a standard pickup to install in their guitars? He then rattled off the names of a handful of different pickups that he thought were really good. If memory serves, I believe SD Seth Lovers were included in that short list as well as Antiquities and Thro-baks. Memory is fuzzy and I wish I had it on video but I think that's pretty close. So my point is that I am not surprised that these pickups sound the way they do. One of the characteristics of these pickups is that you can hear every little detail in the strings as you play. I have different guitars which all have different pickups in them. Some, I can play sloppy and the slop is covered up while others, like these Seth Lovers allow you to hear every little movement of finger against string. The tone is great but it also forces me to try and play better so that I don't hear all those little squeaks and stuff every time I move a finger from one string to another. The Seth Lovers stay in this guitar. When a pickup reveals what is really going on with your playing you know it's a good one. I want people to hear what my right hand is doing and to hear the little nuances, and yes, Seth Lovers are great for that. They generally have a good clean neck tone, and enough gain to make the bridge pickup sing. So I think anyone of Ren's choices would be good with a slight edge going to Throbak. I've A/B-ed directly my SD Peter Green Shop pickups against Throbaks and preferred my bridge tone, but preferred the Throbak neck tone. I've said this before, to really set up a guitar to it's potential you have to listen to it and determine what it needs. Seths won't work in everything but in your case it sounds like they are the perfect fit.
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