Members twotimingpete Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 been waiting ages for PGS to demo a guitar with minihums. PGS has the best demos and the only ones I really pay attention to. I've had a little experience with em in the neck position of a tele, but never played one in the bridge of a guitar. [video=youtube;A7wCHJ173wg] is it just me or do they almost sound like they could be p90s at times? there's definitely a nice bright single coiliness to them and going just by sound could be mistaken for SCs -- by me, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EvilMinstrel Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 If I were to own a Les Paul, it would have them. Otherwise, no interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 I've only owned neck models, but I love em.Sweet and fat. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DavidMgT Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 one day I will have a Giffin.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ugameus Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 In my experience "regular" minis can get that snarlyness(is that a word?) like p90's. I use a Firebird mini in the neck and that is a little more polite and snappy, like traditional single coils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitar Heel Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 And he's playing a Giffin! I want one soooooo badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NinjaModder Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 Oh my... That sounds so nice. And for once I can pick out the difference between this and regular hums. Poop... now I want a mini buckin les paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dicky sofa Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 nice demo is nice... YMG* * yet more gas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beyer160 Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 been waiting ages for PGS to demo a guitar with minihums. PGS has the best demos and the only ones I really pay attention to. PGS's videos are useless, since Andy can make a piece of wet plywood with rusty barbed wire strung on it with a blown iPod earbud as a pickup plugged into a '78 Impala car stereo sound like total god. I mean come on, have you ever heard him demo anything and not thought "ohmygod I HAVE to have THAT!!!" It's a good thing I'm not rich, since those videos would have cost me a pile of cash by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Minnie The Moocher Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 Yeah, that's how they sound like (depending of the amp of course). But it's definitly different from the P90's. The high mids are differently shaped, making the mini hums a bit more piercing (in a good way), snarly, while the P90 has more low mids and is a bit warmer . Both pickups are great for raging tones that let you cut thru any mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 PGS's videos are useless, since Andy can make a piece of wet plywood with rusty barbed wire strung on it with a blown iPod earbud as a pickup plugged into a '78 Impala car stereo sound like total god. I mean come on, have you ever heard him demo anything and not thought "ohmygod I HAVE to have THAT!!!" It's a good thing I'm not rich, since those videos would have cost me a pile of cash by now. He's a really good player, so yeah, he makes stuff sound good... but I've watched demos and decided that the pedal (or whatever) wouldn't work for me. I do think he does a good job of accurately representing the gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members New Trail Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 The best example of the sound of mini humbuckers that you will EVER find is Barry Bailey in Atlanta Rhythm Section's "Spooky" and "So Into You." In fact, that's a guitar tone that can't be beat by ANYTHING IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EvilMinstrel Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 Dear God are those guitars way overpriced!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 Minis are a perfect example of why I like lower output pickups. No mud, sweet highs and oh so musical. Minis in particular shift that EQ spike up the ladder a few notches above P90s and PAFs, so the"honk" deisappears and you get a real nice peak in the upper mids. Definitely fatter sounding than a strat single, but still quite chimey and clear. Powerful enough to make for some real nice full driven tones, too. I never understood why they weren't more popular. I'll never be without at least one again. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twotimingpete Posted June 16, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 he maeks everything sound good, yeah, but that's not a "trick" because good players sound good, it really doesn't matter what guitar it is. that's reality. but it's also useful because I know the baseline. they always use the same amp (unless it's an amp demo) and unless otherwise stated, the overdrive is from a kalamazoo. the consistency of their process lets make a decision about how something sounds and what it'd mean to me, because I can compare it to other things. quality and consistency together are precisely why these demos are the only useful demos on youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A-20 Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 PGS's videos are useless, since Andy can make a piece of wet plywood with rusty barbed wire strung on it with a blown iPod earbud as a pickup plugged into a '78 Impala car stereo sound like total god. I mean come on, have you ever heard him demo anything and not thought "ohmygod I HAVE to have THAT!!!" It's a good thing I'm not rich, since those videos would have cost me a pile of cash by now. This. Andy is THE man. I want to be Andy... on guitar at least... but stay myself in all other aspects of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 I wouldn't say they're the "only" useful, but certainly the biggest collection of very useful demos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wyatt Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 In my experience "regular" minis can get that snarlyness(is that a word?) like p90's. I use a Firebird mini in the neck and that is a little more polite and snappy, like traditional single coils. It's actually the other way around. A real Firebird-style mini is much harder to tame that a Epiphone/Les Paul Deluxe-style mini. The Firebird as an upper-midrange sizzle that's impossible to clean up. The Epiphone/LPD pickups are about as close as a Les Paul ever comes to sounding like a Tele. The big difference between the two is the Epiphone/LPD mini is made like a small PAF, with one bottom magnet and steel poles (actually steel poles on one coil, a single steel slug on the other), the Firebird PU was deigned to be cheaper to make, it just uses one magnetic pole/slug piece for each coil. But you have to compare traditional builds. When throwing in a curve-ball like a Seymour Duncan, everything changes...Seymours look like Firebird PU's but are built like Epiphones, DiMarzio also has it's own unique construction, as to some others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DavidMgT Posted June 17, 2011 Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 Dear God are those guitars way overpriced!!!!! they are actually priced quite well for guitars made by one person (who is one of the finest builders on the planet) who has maybe just a few hundred guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted June 17, 2011 Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 Good demo, as far as mini's go those are pretty nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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