Seymour Duncan ’78 Model humbucker captures “biting clarity and warm, crunchy overtones” 

“I’m afraid you’re just too darn loud.”

He plays like a chicken

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Hilarious ! I thought the same thing

it's a different sound completely.I got both and the VH2 is an Al5 magnet pickup that has an offset and has got regular winding (not over-wound). The 78' is an over-wound Al2 pickup. They are totally different pickups

@@zafira976 Thanks, man! I appreciate your insight! I saw also that EVH just released the new Frankenstein Classic pickup (Alnico 2), so I'm just wondering which one is the best out of the three.

@@zafira976Different in What way? sharper? Muddier? Crisper? Anyone know what difference the mags make?

@@Tatted-ne7tu yes, the different magnets are "highlighting" different frequencies but also have a different strength in the attack. The Al2 is sweet/smooth on the top end has a mid-range and is light in the bass. The Al 3 similar (soft sounding) but a lot more top end. Al 4 is very well balanced but in my ears sounds like it totally lacks in character. Al 5 scooped mids and not soft on the attack, sounds very modern with a tight low end. Al 6 which most pickup companies don't offer sounds a little more mid-rangy and fantastic when under-wound and so does the Al 8 but the attack is really not soft which is the reason I don't use them. If you want crisp bu soft go for Al 3. The Al2 can sound muddy when over-wound so it should be avoided to over-wind an Al 2 pickup

@@zafira976 Thank you so much for the break down. This helps me in my journey to replace the Duncan JB in my Danhenge Charvel. I find the stock JB just doesn't really compliment the Area 67 that's in the neck. The JB is a bit too hot and compressed. So far I'm considering the Thornbucker, BK VHII, BK MULE, SD 78 and the Pearly Gates. All great pickups and I'm sure I could find many more to go on the list but I have to start somewhere. I am a fan of Eddie's glassy toned early albums and I know that I need to get to a lower wind pickup.

The Frankenstein is a lot hotter. It's more like a JB just better. I have it in a Charvel. Sounds great. This demo didn't really capture the "voice" of the 78 model. Other vids out there have it sounding exactly like Van Halen 1. Even the old Demo that SD has as their video is spot on Van Halen.

the frankenstein pickup is the humbucker which was used for fair warning and women and children first the 78 model was the one used for vh1 and part of vh2. When eddie began to use floyd roses he switched humbuckers to find what he needed he finally settled down with an overwound super distortion he replaced the ceramic magnet with the paf magnet and duncan copied this humbucker for eddie by replacing the hex screws by normal pole pieces and screws for the frankie because originally this was the bee humbucker. However the 5150 had a damaged duncan jb which read 180k instead of the supposed 16.5k.

He said "Coil Tap" but I think what he meant was "Coil Split", since coil tap is actually something you do not find too often because it's not the same as coil split, even though it does sound similar. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yj5HVAcVKg8.html I find this video to be very insightful for this topic. Hope I could help!

It’s not a baretta, it’s a 84 model.

I ordered a 78 from custom shop which sounds great but didn’t buy my 78 eruption guitar until last month and man is it one fun guitar to play. I can’t mount it though as it has the wrong legs on the pickup to fit properly without modification. Or so I’m told. But I also picked up a Charvel 2004 NOS OEM prototype pickup for the evh art series. (Verified with Fender). It does have the correct mounting legs. Ironically it was meant for a black and white art series (eruption style model) The neck is the most comfortable I’ve ever played so I was wondering if yours happened to be the current model with the 12 inch radius or a different spec neck on the same model guitar? I was curious to try one of the Kramer guitars and didn’t want to waste my time if it was looking like something I would not like. If anyone knows differently about mounting a standard pickup to this guitar please let me know as I’d love to actually hear VH1 tones as opposed to Wolfgang. It’s a nice pickup but I prefer old VH tones. Besides having the 78 would be more accurate to the original. Which is my goal.

Different beast altogether! The '78 is very close to a old 50's P.A.F. where the JB uses Different wire and magnet. The JB is also much hotter in output and more modern sounding. My favorite is the Duncan Custom-59 hybrid which falls right in the middle of a 78 and JB. Best pickuo I ever tried and will cover any style🤘💥

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@@jedinakfoor Thanks

Seriously... but anyone who sees a single humbucker and that hockey puck Kramer headstock knows.

Cuz it would be wrong and Wolfzilla would probably throw a tantrum and stomp on Tokyo...

@@rickcrotts6673 what about it would be wrong? You can go to the product page where they DO mention Eddie by name, along with a bit of the backstory. This is THE pickup that Seymour Duncan designed for EVH in the late 70’s.

It used to be called the Evenly Voiced Harmonics. 😂

This...

Let's not ignore the compressor set to maximum squash. (:

Not true at all. High output pickups make it easier to use those techniques. Can it be done with a single coil? Yes, but technique changes subtly to make it happen. Higher output makes it easier to pull off even if its subtle.

@@gtrman12887 Yeah, in a way output matters, but still - technique matters MORE :)

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Lawyers... the devil is in the details and it usually involves lawyers... just my guess.

yeah, never-ending tonewood crap... ;)

Also, the neck construction plays a big part. A bolt-on sounds different than a neck-through, even if it both guitars are made of the same woods.

@@greekfreak1980 maybe, but does not make any difference in live/band situation 😀

@@aek4018 Sure, people play their guitars through a pedalboard with a dozen pedals, pre-amps and high gain amps, but claim that they can hear " the warmness of the mahagony" or some BS.😆

@@greekfreak1980 heres the thing, a lot of these "tone facts" about guitars originated when they were first coming into popularity. You had to main competitors, Gibson and Fender. Gibson doing 24.75 scale and fender 25.5, arguably the biggest difference in defining tone is the scale length. People were attributing tonalities to many things while ignoring a lot of factors at the same time. Yeah, that bolt on is brighter and snappier because the strings, which were mostly available in the same gauge set at the time, because they were under more tension due to the scale length, amplified they sounded significantly brighter too, due the fact we are listening to the sound of single coils vs humbbuckers and P90s on a shorter scale guitar. Everything plays its part, its a recipe for sure, but bolt on vs set isnt going to be as large a factor as you think it is....

I wouldn't have believed you 6mo. Ago, then I discovered a uy on RU-vid named Jim Lill who has videos on where tone comes from.....he made a 'guitar' using strings, bridge, pickups, wiring, capacitors and machine heads attached in between two desks....sounded the same as his real guitar and the guitar he built on a piece of plywood. You are 100% correct. It feels heretical but it's true.

@@NoneMcNobody💯🎯

@@NoneMcNobody Ultimately, everything boils down to feel and how it makes you play.

It's Guitar World, what did you expect? At least this guy can play decently, they usually demo these with people that sound like 12 year olds at Guitar Center.