How are Sounds of Sin pickups?

[azazael]

What did you think of the tone of the sin/amp?

They sound great. I'm curious about your setup. Have you made any modifications to the amp (tubes, speakers, circuitry)? I used to have a 6505 combo, and I just couldn't get that tone out of it. I ended up selling it. Maybe I was just doing it wrong. To me, it only seemed good for the chugga chugga stuff, which isn't really my thing.

Well I agree with you on the 5150/6505. I have a love/hate affair with it.
Sometimes it sounds great... most of the time I hate it though.
It seems to have a chip on its shoulder where no matter what you are doing it wants to go all out metal.

My favourite channel is the rhythm channel as it has a very usable amount of drive and power but the Lead channel is very thin and fizzy. Has this harshness that sort of scrapes your face.

I have been messing around with it plugged into the powerbrake though and it seems to help somewhat (although i could be just telling myself this)

You can hear in the clip when I switched to the 2nd channel the tone changed drastically, lost some clarity. Gained more compression and fizz. Although I found this afterwards to remind me of how VH1 actually sounded at times.

I recorded it with an SM58 and added reverb and panned to left. I think the reverb definetly smooths it out a bit... I think thats what makes me loathe it sometimes as the dry signal just doesnt agree with my ears.

Guitar wise it was just my Frankenstrat with one of the first Sounds of Sin EVH PAF pickups.

[azazael]

Just to let you all know that Chris Carter contacted me a couple weeks back and we sorted out the problems.

He sent me the corrected order and gave me a free pickup in the process.

They arrived today. Here is a few pics of them to let ya see what they look like.

[Sin Pickups]

Nice Pickups Azazael ! Let me know how they sound.
I am working on a new "True Evh"
Maybe you guys can "True or False" This bit.

I have ready in several places that the first Pickup Ev used was a ES 335 Paf
that had a damaged coil. Thus giving him that Thinner strat like tone.
But I based my EVP (Evh-Paf) off of the later Frankie sound that featured
a PAF that he spliced and over wound the coils. I also read that He used a Dimarzio Distortion with a PAF Magnet inside
instead of the Ceramic stock magnet.

Another Proto-type I have built is for Tube amp guru's who reallylet the amp do most the work.
This pickup is super super Clean with great warm lows and mellower highs than the Paf's.
It is very low resistance wound with 41awg magnet wire Alnico 3 magnet.
I have sent this model out to 2 guys and they were satisfied with it. The Paf pushed too much natural gain thru custom Tube Amps I know one used a Lone Wolf head maybe.

[SteadyEddie]

I'm interested in a hotter pickup, namely, the sinbucker. What can you tell me about that bad boy? I want to make my plexi scream!

[azazael]

VH5150, made any recordings yet?

[Ed Hunter]

I'm interested in a hotter pickup, I want to make my plexi scream!

get a duncan custom TB-5 then...

[spcv]

I finally received my pickups. Problems after problems. Since he never sent an invoice with the pickups, Customs hold them until I presented proof of payment. That means that a process that would take a couple days, with an invoice attached, took two extra weeks!

I open the package, check the pickups and realise that, in spite of my clear request for braided wire and two conductors, he sent regular plastic wire and four conductors!

How do I know if they will sound remotely close to what else I requested?

So far, not recommending him based on the hassles and unreliability!

[azazael]

Heres a clip of the axis clone pair but i think im gonna have to tweak something. Overall very bassy I think they were mislabeled neck/bridge. Maybe even try a different pot? Definetly thinking about disconnecting tone circuit entirely as I never really use it.

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[Marshall SL12301]

Heres a clip of the axis clone pair but i think im gonna have to tweak something. Overall very bassy I think they were mislabeled neck/bridge. Maybe even try a different pot? Definetly thinking about disconnecting tone circuit entirely as I never really use it.

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did you install these or a tech? the bridge pu should be real crisp and almost tele like in the highs like the custom wound dimarzio is on the axis. make sure the 17K pu is in the bridge spot(maybe they are installed backwards(,the bridge model is in the neck and the neck model in the bridge) and use a 500K volume pot no tone pot. this will match it to a axis tone closer

[azazael]

Heres a clip of the axis clone pair but i think im gonna have to tweak something. Overall very bassy I think they were mislabeled neck/bridge. Maybe even try a different pot? Definetly thinking about disconnecting tone circuit entirely as I never really use it.

http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/arti ... autoplay=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

did you install these or a tech? the bridge pu should be real crisp and almost tele like in the highs like the custom wound dimarzio is on the axis. make sure the 17K pu is in the bridge spot(maybe they are installed backwards(,the bridge model is in the neck and the neck model in the bridge) and use a 500K volume pot no tone pot. this will match it to a axis tone closer

Actually according to the tech the values were not like what is on the labels.
I've not checked the guitar yet as I'm waiting for having a necessary string change first.
I think the Silhouette comes with a 250k pot at least that's according to website spec.

I know exactly what the Axis should sound like... I own enough of them :p

[Marshall SL12301]

Heres a clip of the axis clone pair but i think im gonna have to tweak something. Overall very bassy I think they were mislabeled neck/bridge.

there's so many things that make me not wont to order from the guy who winds these, he has a very bad rep with business ethics and i dont care for the fact that the labels may be wrong. i think i will get a set of the dimarzio's off of ebay or something even if i have to pay top dollar.

[azazael]

Well you can try at least. There were no labels on the pups actually for bridge or neck on either set.
However he makes great pickups, the one i have in my frankenstrat is an awesome pickup although that was wound on a modified sewing machine with 70s wire.

[Marshall SL12301]

Well you can try at least. There were no labels on the pups actually for bridge or neck on either set.
However he makes great pickups, the one i have in my frankenstrat is an awesome pickup although that was wound on a modified sewing machine with 70s wire.

I would like to hear your assessment of the axis set first when you do the tweaking you spoke of. you own a few axis guitars and can give a accurate opinion on the tone of these clones compared to the dimarzio's

[azazael]

Well one of the main issues that I was concerned about when I receive them was that it's marked A4, Alnico4.
Axis pickups use Alnico5 magnets.

In regards to comparing with my Axis.
Remember this guitar is Alder and Axis are basswood/maple.

It wouldn't sound the same i don't think anyway.

[ErickC]

Cant say anything bad about my experience with Chris. I might be one of those 2 guys he sent that new pup he mentions back in october, as he calls it the "41 Special" As Chris told me its around 6k resistance, it picks up harmonics nicely and has a ton of bite and cleans up real good.