My Wolfie

[Rid]

Hehe since I am new here, might as well introduce my main weapon of choice. [img]images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif[/img]
Refitted with an OFR plus an APH-1 humbucker in the neck, and a hybrid Demon/JB bridge pickup.
Used to be an EXP.

[CanyonCarver]

Sweet finish! [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

[Rid]

Thanks...this guitar still amaze me a year and a half after I bought it...defently a keeper.

[classalpha]

How does that hybrid p/up sound? I found the stock 'Demon to be somewhat dull and midrange heavy... sort of like an EMG '81 with a weak battery. [img]images/smilies/icon_eek.gif[/img]

[Rid]

??? The Demon never sounded like that to me?
It is like a loweroutput JB, they share almost the same charateristics.
It is fat without being too hot, I like PAF style buckers best.
But I can live with more hot versions [img]images/smilies/icon_jam.gif[/img]
I am also going to try an EVH and a CC in it.
Maybe a Seth without cover as well.
I love those vintage sounding pickups.
Anyways the Demon was alway big and opensounding in both my strats and my Wolfgang, what potmeter did you use it with??

[classalpha]

Hey Rod. [img]images/smilies/afro.gif[/img]

Back 1991 I put the Screamin' Demon on my new alder-bodied Skull and Snakes ESP, which incidentally came stock with a Duncan Distortion, like my plain black, maple-bodied ESP "Kamikaze" did.

From reading an interview he did in Guitar World at the time, Lynch said he created the Demon with the EMG '81 sound in mind. He said he was fond of the peaky growl and smooth high end of the active piickup... but didn't want the active circuitry. Some years earlier I had an EMG '81/SA equipped Guild neck thru-body Strat and I liked the clean output and the "honk" of the-bridge postiition '81, so I bought the Demon hoping to recreate that tone without the battery hassle. But in the Skulls model, it didn't sound at all like the typical Lynch sound or the '81 to me- it just sounded like the Guiild after I let the battery go weak- midrange heavy and with much lower output. I suppose it could have been the softness of the alder body that contributed to the duller sound of the Demon, but I never got a chance to change it over to the maple-bodied ESP... so perhaps I should have. [img]images/smilies/headscratch.gif[/img]

Personally I like the JB better than the Lynch p/up; I had them on the Barettas I once owned. I found the JB was sort of timid output wise, but sounded warm and not muddy like the Demon. The JB also has a nice, EVH-ish edge and crisp bite that the Demon doesn't- but the Lynch p/up was literally designed to have less bite and more mids so I guess that should have been expected. Anyway, I thought the Demon was a bit disappointing. I felt I got a better Lynch sound with the EMG equipped Guild.


I should have just put an '81 in the Lynch guitars, but I was running out of money. In a year later in '92 I sold every electric guitar I had just to get my pink flame top EBMM. Guitar Center reamed me on that one... and I was an employee!! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

Oh I used a standard 500k pot on the ESP... and nice Wolfie BTW!! [img]images/smilies/icon_jam.gif[/img]

[Rid]

Hehe ok....yeah parts does not always work out together.
To me the JB was always uppermid heavy, very classic 80's hardrock sound, so now I have a JB with a little more air in the sound, lots of bite and harmonics in that thing....but I really want a pu with an A2 magnet in it, CC or an EVH maybe even a APH-1b....my gear has alot of bottom and I need more clarity without sacrificing fatness.