Don't Be Afraid of Overwound Pickups! Porter Anthem Plus PAF Humbuckers Review

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Welcome to this demo and review of the Porter Anthem + PAF pickups! What do you think? Using a Supro Black Magick and a Browne Amplification Gritador overdrive pedal.
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[@al271987]

My preferred humbuckers usually count as somewhat hot. I love the Duncan Custom SH-5, but my current favorite is the Mighty Mite 1400, which is a hot PAF type wind (about 9k) but with a huge ceramic magnet. Cleans are sparkly and driven tones are just the perfect, open, crunchy, raunch. Can’t believe how good the 1400 is.

[@michaelogden5093]

Porter Pickups... gedoudahere. Pure butta baby!

[@bluwng]

I love overwound pickups, Morse dynamics, articulate and it’s like a built in overdrive controlled by the volume knob. I also like the fact that lowering volume will give you a softer tone and lower amplitude without use of the tone knob, this is why I DON’T like treble bleeds.

[@Lomoholga2]

I love my Charvel DK24 for fingerstyle jazz- sold my Princeton 68 RI because the pickups would make it overdrive at a fairly low volume- I needed the ability to get a loud clean sound! Thats the only drawback I can think of. Of course there are ways of solving this- volume knob on guitar (lol), change the speaker, change the pickups.

[@aminahmed2220]

Absolutely fantastic ❤😊

[@MrTelekes]

I put Seymour Duncan vintage hot stack plus in my strat and it sounds fantastic

[@richardlynch5632]

Agreed. Lower pup heights and add drive at amp or pedal. 👍👍 Magnet types depend on pup placement ie; bridge or neck. For instance my Strat has... Neck pup split AlNiCo 2 & 3. Middle pup is AlNiCo 3. Bridge is AlNiCo 5. Talk about ear fatigue balancing volumes for each😝😊

[@dmac3316]

Sounds great 👍

[@Foxtrot1989]

Yes, Jack, I have a Japanese 58 spec Edwards Les Paul that I have modified to encapsulate the variety of influences of mine, and I have installed a Gibson ceramic 498r (Updated Original Collection) in the neck and a revamped and reprised Gibson Dirty Fingers Humbucker in the bridge (Gibson Original Collection). I had set them both to be low to a particular pitch, with the neck set a notch lower than the bridge so as to enable them to be as harmonically versatile yet gruff in unison with one another. The volume and tones created are sublime! To make matters more interesting about this setup, I had also installed a faber aluminum tune o matic with 3 brass and 3 titanium saddles and an aluminum Gotoh 510 tailpiece for extra uniqueness of tones. The wiring is made as 50s wiring with 15uf Bumble-Bee capacitors for the neck and 22uf Bumble-Bee for the bridge. I can't bring myself to change it after that, at least for that Les paul. It screams, moans, and whispers, who it is that I am quintessentially.

[@andrewbecker3700]

SD '59 or Gibson Custombucker for the neck, is hard to beat. Bridge pickups can be more finicky to chose, depending on the guitar. Gibson Burstbucker 3 is my standard do everything Les Paul choice. But for shred friendly guitars that you want some more punch out of. My current favorite is this new overwound Custombucker that I'm using out of my "The Berserker" custom art edition, from the Epiphone Adam Jones collection. I paired it with the standard Custombucker in the neck, and wow is it killer! It's the best matched pickup set I have. They both have excellent clarity and string definition, with just enough punch to get you into crunch territory. This overwound Custombucker is in its own league.

[@stanesposito2664]

I actually like medium to the lower end of high output pickups if that makes sense. If they have something I like I don't care about magnets or numbers.

[@graemero5532]

Those sound great clean 😲

[@JackFossett]

Right? Way better than you'd expect for overwound

[@JimMorrisonsBathtub]

I very much prefer overwound pickups and I raise them as high as I can without hitting any strings when I play the higher frets. In part that's because I usually play hard rock but even if I'm going for a clean sound I like when my tone is a bit more bold.

[@mortonwilson795]

Maybe I have just become habituated to the humbuckers on the 2 guitars I have used for 30+ years (1968 Les Paul Custom & 1992 Sadowsky NYC HSH) but these just sound altogether 'too much' for me - they seem to lack subtlety - altho I suppose that's the point in a way? Full on, loud , in your face etc? Clearly I'm not an expert of underspun or overwound so just first impressions. I have been considering ordering some Monty's Underwound PAFs to put in my Epi '59 LP' to replace the Gibsons it came with because I was under the impression they might offer a bright but warmer sound which would suit my (mainly clean, chordal arpeggiated) playing and your comments actually have helped steer me in that direction! Maybe when I grow up I'll be ready for overwounds 🤣 Thanks for the demo!

[@Sams911]

that's funny, I actually paid extra from Gibson for "under wound" PAF's... I like to play a clean tone and the extra winds just means more gain, not less..

[@bluwng]

Guitarist missed the boat on flat response pickups like EMG active they didn’t get, they said same thing you said it’s flat. The idea with a flat response pickup is that you can you EQ to get any tone you want , why because the entire frequency spectrum is available hence the term flat. BTW magnet type doesn’t determine the frequency response. You might a knowledgeable musician but you don’t understand the electro/ mechanical fundamentals of pickups.