I used to have a Gibson Les Paul Studio, and now I have a CS6. They can all be had with brushed metal pickup covers in black, silver or gold, too.Īnd the next thing you'll want to possibly change are the pots.again, not because Kiesel's are bad, but because changing a pot from a 500k to a 250k can have a big change to the sound of the pickups. There's also the Greg Howe bridge pickup, the Frank Gembale neck pickup, and the Holdsworth set. The Lithiums are the standard on almost all their other models and even were the standard on the carved tops for a while before these new pickups came out. They aren't PAF-like, though, from what most people say they can hear from the few demos that are out there so far (they are new, like I said). Their new standard pickups on the model, the Beryliums (Alnico 2), are more vintage-y than their other main pickup, the Lithiums (Alnico 5). Not that I think Kiesel's are inferior, they just might not be to your taste.
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