Les Paul With Stratocaster Single Coil Pickups (Overdrive Only)

[@lone-wolf-1]

Sounds great! Still more like a LP, but brighter, with a hint of a Strat. Proves, that it's not only the pickups responsible for a certain sound...

[@kuitaristi3003]

Yes, agreed too

[@JefeInquisidorGOW]

Scale, nut material, bridge configuration, even setup has a more significant impact on tone than the pickups.

[@mickavoidant4780]

Don't forget that amp and speakers have a big bearing.

[@selliantuttimusi6735]

Scale length difference is a HUGE factor

[@ryanzeigler9763]

the pickups and scale length are ALL that matters guys, this isn't an acoustic.

[@DadRockKid]

this is a classic video that the character of the guitar comes from the build and very importantly scale length....

[@soofitnsexy]

wood is alot! and scale lenth

[@funkninja9]

don't forget pickup placement too!

[@transmundanemusic]

I agree, but it’s more than just scale length (which I guess is why you said the build too). Otherwise, Ibanez, shecter, and other metal guitars w extended scale lengths would all sound like strats and teles. But they sure don’t!

[@Casey3-P-O]

I've never seen anyone do this before. Very cool.

[@BoostedAkatsukiRiffs]

This video proves to me that electric pickups don’t just make 100% of the overall tone of the guitar. Sure it sounds "strat-like", but its also really got this awesome blend of low-grudge darkness that gets added to the tone from the les paul body/hardware. Love the vid man

[@kuitaristi3003]

Thanks! Yeah body, amount of wood and shape also effects and many other things. Should say everything effects on guitar to it's tone because what i have learned these years.

[@michaelwilson2340]

I love the sound of single coil pickups. More of a clean, cutting sound that just suits my ears. Not saying I'm right. Different folks with different sets of ears.

[@Wob-O]

Damn! What a pleasant surprise.

[@Shabboi]

This actually sounds really good to me

[@277southtombob]

Epiphone made a 3 pickup Les Paul with Strat pickups and even the slanted bridge. I’d like to have one myself. I’ve also thought about using a LP copy with a Broadcaster or other hotter wound Tele bridge pickup and a Strat or p90 neck. I’ve always thought a Broadcaster/Tele bridge pickup in a LP would sound great.

[@funkninja9]

this is pretty freaking great! Cool tone!

[@anthonypanneton923]

looks and sounds great! I did something similar to a LP clone of mine that had terrible sounding overwound humbuckers. I opened up the pickups and disconnected one of the coils on each pickup. I like the looks of your single coil adapter plates. I used one of those on a different guitar that had a H-S-S pickup arrangement. I replaced the humbucker at the bridge position with a conversion plate and installed a generic TL neck pickup. gets a very cool and different sound. the TL neck pickup I used has DC coil resistance of about 6K, and has a strong midrange. sounds sweet at the bridge position, and is a nice blend with the other two standard ST-type single coils. plus, it looks cool!

[@kuitaristi3003]

Nice! Good job 👍 Actually i didn't use adapter plates it's just single- coil pickups hooked to humbucker rings ☺

[@CarlosVargas-cn7rx]

That is a very Brian May'ish tone!

[@raiderrich8355]

Great tone.. it sounds pretty damn sweet

[@kuitaristi3003]

Well it could been much better.

[@Alienkiwi730]

Very cool and very unique to yourself

[@billys9709]

I did the same thing on my guitar the sound is very very nice it cleans very nicely with the potentiometer and I can say that even though I have better guitars than the one I converted to, I play almost exclusively with this one without having to change many things in the settings of the amplifier or the pedals, I can play a live with different types of music and still have a clean * sound but also dirty the wiring I made is very easy in the middle position the sound is unbelievable I also did it this way so that I can have both in series and parallel and in the middle position out of phase (when I want)

[@kuitaristi3003]

Very cool!👍

[@destianpatrianagara1119]

Actually sounded great

[@JustinSmithPYRO]

Hear a lot of Hendrix in it, but oddly at the same time some Angus very interesting guitar. I love it 🤘🤘

[@kuitaristi3003]

Haha 🙂 It was just a fun test. Now it has Dimarzio Paf Master humbucker set in and those have some single coil type sounds mixed to humbucker. I think it's that, telecaster on steroids type sound that some talks.

[@josephlerz6889]

I dig this more than anything next to the silver sky prs, The thin coil singles with that meaty darker les paul sounds sick, I like the cleanness but also with that meaty vibe

[@kuitaristi3003]

Funny that, peoples like the tone of this video, my opinion it's not that good :)

[@josephlerz6889]

@@kuitaristi3003 It sounds thin with the single coil. but darker being a les paul, Your video has inspired me to want to put my single hss lil 59 and dimarzio dp218 in my Epiphone classic les paul, It's more single but their single humbuckers, so I feel anything less or more would be balanaced

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@josephlerz6889 Cool

[@kuitaristi3003]

If you guys want a great telecaster sound like from your les paul, check Lollar Novel T pickup. That pickup really transforms your LP to tele.

[@michealwarren6681]

A more expensive telecaster

[@donwade-di8ny]

Okay... This sounded a lot better than I thought it would!! When you play My kind😂 however as an avid Les Paul owner and fan for 50 plus, single coils on a Les Paul is an unholy Union an abomination😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 good Playing son😮😮😮

[@kuitaristi3003]

Haha thanks😅

[@Worlds_Worst_Guitarist]

Sounds great!

[@kuitaristi3003]

Thanks. I still liked humbucker more so i put stock pickups back. I just wanted to try how LP sounds with real single coils.

[@danlosgar9194]

Man that sounds killer...very cool!

[@duncansbuddy]

I gave a thumbs up to Frapzoid below because for the most part I have played Gibson Les Pauls for 40 years. Single coils have their place though. I have a couple of 70's Fender Strats and Mustangs stored away. Every time I attempt to play them, back in storage they go. I cannot let go of my Les Pauls.. I simply love the feel of the Les Paul (sound too). So, I was wondering what would it sound and be like to install a nice single coil pickup at the neck position (single coils at the bridge position absolutely suck, sorry).. Great job in presenting such a sound. I think I will have an install done in the neck position of one of my Les Pauls. Why? Who knows, been playing a long time, simply for something different maybe.? ....lol. Thanks for sharing young Hero.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Thanks for the nice comment! We all have model that suits best for us. I like LP very much too, but i like strat, RR and V shapes also. Strat shape was my first ever but back then i didn't care about strats and i wanted V shape. Single coil neck can be great for LP, definitely better than bridge single, yeah.

[@miguelangelvacaheredia8230]

Great test mate!!...maybe you can try a HS config, Humbucker on the bridge and SC on the neck..... the tone comparison would be really interesting that way.... :-D....

[@kuitaristi3003]

It would but i'm gonna keep humbuckers. I don't even own any extra single coils now to try things. Thanks anyway :)

[@ryanzeigler9763]

Doesn't sound so much diff than P90's but it has weird Nashville tele overtones. I dig it and this would be more fun than a Jag =p

[@asdaven1]

Interesting. Sounds like a Les Paul still but more towards a Tele than a Strat id say. The Strat pickups in that sound alot like the humbucker sized P90s they make.

[@hilmiHERCULEs]

Yes it do have the sound character like a strat..

[@kuitaristi3003]

Yes, a little. It still sounds more les paul tho.

[@Bedroomrips]

@@kuitaristi3003 to me it’s the brightness of a strat with the thickness of an lp tone but not as thick lol

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@Bedroomrips yep

[@mickavoidant4780]

It shows you don't need humbuckers to play dirty. Go with what you like.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Hendrix and others show that back then long ago but yeah, use what you want for clean and dirty. you can play everything with every guitar it's just matter of taste.

[@alexia_7046]

That's true i play metal with p90s cause i like single coils and it sounds pretty good to me.

[@mickavoidant4780]

@@alexia_7046 I play with overdriven Nordstrand Big Breaks on my bass. Split coils.

[@musiqueurbaine]

I like this set up. Why not..??? LP’s, SG’s Tele’s and Strat’s are IMO all great mod platforms to experiment with. I’ve just completed a similar build using active Telecaster pickups and it’s conventional active wiring of 1 vol, 1 tone with 3 way blade toggle switch. In my world using any pickup and wiring configuration makes these instruments step out of the box. I would not do it to a vintage or a new instrument though! I’ve done a few of these types of mods on new build’s or on less expensive entry level refinish, mods and upgrades. BTW, you LP looks and sounds great. Don’t know if you did a refinish or the finish is original? Either way I love it and you can always go back to humbuckers if so or when desired. Ones mods are for the one playing not for whoever is quick to critique. Keep up modding and playing…

[@kuitaristi3003]

It was original finish with those plastic stripes. Don't have this guitar anymore now i have Gibson Traditional 2016. Tokai was good but this Gibson is great! And not because it is a Gibson.

[@Roi_TFN]

Great experiment dude.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Thanks but there is some other les paul with single coil videos too and those are maybe little better. Not many but some. Tho i just put single coil straight to LP so that's maybe something :)

[@alvinbreadcrumbsh]

in an alternate universe where evh wants a gibson with a strat sound

[@kuitaristi3003]

Haha yeah :)

[@skobywankenobi]

I actually think a strat pickup on the neck would work well on a Les Paul. That pickup is usually hot af no matter what you do.

[@Junior1385]

This guitar sound versatile for me, i think this can also do Country Twang like Telecasters.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Maybe. With better single-coils like Fender pickups i bet it can.

[@ulyssestyler9685]

It probably could but keep in mind that the winding of a typical Telecaster bridge pickup is different from your typical Stratocaster bridge pickup.

[@danhope77]

Single coil for ever

[@kuitaristi3003]

On strat, yeah :)

[@bobdillon1138]

Like the neck tone.

[@danswon]

Cool! I'm about to do this with an Epiphone G-400. 🎸

[@kuitaristi3003]

Try it, you can always put humbuckers back in if it's not your thing after all :) Wires are maybe tho too short, maybe? Humbucker guitars usually use 500k pots and can make singlecoils too bright so you can try swap 250k pot to volume, but you can also use guitar tone knop to roll highs down.

[@meadish]

Got to say that sounded pretty good to my ears - a bit more twang, but not really Strat like (none of that bottle-type/glassy sound) Pretty similar to a Les Paul with P90s or a beefy Telecaster maybe. Thanks for sharing the experiment.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Thanks for the comment :)

[@F-MK96]

must admit it sounds good!

[@glenperry9752]

Great mod! Can you please demo the clean tones, in various pickup switch positions? Thanks!

[@kuitaristi3003]

Thanks but i don't have that guitar and pickups anymore.

[@glenperry9752]

Thank you Kuitaristi, I'm thinking about putting a strat pickup on the neck position of my les paul, doesn't have to be a fancy job but I definitely don't want to irreversebly alter my custom shop paul in any way. Thanks again!

[@valagnew2644]

No rules in rock-n-roll.......defeats the purpose

[@mondvlogph]

Love Your Experiment: In a Les Paul Body and OfCourse, its Hardware, It Produce Seldom Tone Like Stratocaster or any Single Coil Build Place in a 6 Pole Bridge (Fixed or Floating) Hence, Its Still Got The Crunch of a Humbucker But more recognizeable in Treble Side. Its not as Bright as a Strat But maybe Closer to A 53' Telecaster in Blackguard Scheme. And Yes As you mentioned, it has better tone than a Coil Splitted or Even Coil Tapped Humbucker. I Wonder what single coil are those compose of? You give me idea of trying this stuff on my Les Paul Copy but with Bareknuckle Pickup U.K's Trilogy: Bridge and Neck Pickup (Alnico V) Bridge:15.5 kΩ | Neck: 12.5 kΩ

[@kuitaristi3003]

Thanks. Those single coils was cheaper ones, but i don't know the brand or anything else about them.

[@mondvlogph]

@@kuitaristi3003 Well Brand is not a Thing to me, hope you found out the kind of magnet and its resistance :) Keep the Content Up!

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@mondvlogph I think magnet/s was alnico at least.

[@doom.azafran]

This sounds exactly like a stratocaster, or any other single coil guitar...

[@Headstash1080]

Would love to rip some SRV on this for some reason

[@st.johnfromdesmoines8361]

I do wish you had included clean tone tests, and above all, an actual SSS, 5-way pickup setup. But that said, it's still a very interesting and fun listen if for no other reason than just because Strat-style single coils in Les Paul-style bodies are so vanishingly rare, that it's fun to hear anyway, even if imperfectly presented. You know, I suppose that this is really just the inverse of listening to, say, a Strat HH. Both sound roughly "halfway between" that Les and Strat sound, because pickups are only part of the story. It is my understanding that roughly equivalent in importance to final overall sound as the pickups themselves is the scale length, and of course, a Strat HH is still Strat scale while this guitar is still Les scale. Certainly, the tone woods, body shape (and solid vs chambered vs hollow vs semi-hollow), neck joint design (set vs bolt on vs neck through), bridge style and so many other things do make a difference too, of course. But my understanding is that it's the pickups and the scale length which are the two "great biggies" with all the rest making still very important, but overall much smaller impacts. I presume this is also why on my Ibanez RG (HSH) that the humbuckers also kinda sound "halfway between Strat and Les", I actually REALLY like the sound! I do wish someone would just make a proper "Strat Paul" with Strat-style electronics in a Les-style body. If it was cheap enough, I'd even buy one, even if I do think I like this marriage just a little bit less than its converse. At least based on what little I can tell based on what little I've been able to hear of it. This seems a bit more "squawky" to me vs going the other direction. I hear both the good and the bad of both in both compromises, of course. But the other seems a little more "best of both" than this one does - to me at least. :-) In any case, thank you for uploading anyway! It's still super neat to get to hear the compromise principle at work from the opposite direction that we're used to hearing it! And no complaints on your playing either! :-) Cheers!

[@kuitaristi3003]

Thanks 😅 Yeah this was just an fun experiment to try how my LP sounds with singles. It's true that, many other things matter too than just pickups.

[@claudiosuarez1256]

Great sounds 😃👍 am just planing to modify my samick linda ln30 to 50s wiring and put a pair of vintage alnico 2 or 5 low output humbuckers on it , BUT 🙊 i have a Dimazio Cruiser (hotrails) and a Dimarzio Fred ,so im thinking im going to try those first , but i dont know if try the cruiser on the bridge and the Fred on neck or vicerversa 🤔

[@charlesbrito]

clean song please!

[@kuitaristi3003]

Sorry but i don't have these singles anymore in this guitar

[@markpell8979]

Very interesting!

[@diffbreak2366]

Les Strat or Strat Paul or Stratopaulster ?!

[@kuitaristi3003]

Nice. Les Strat sounds right :)

[@ot4kon]

Lestratopaulster

[@paninovevo1162]

Stratopauler?

[@glendoggett9670]

Leo Paul

[@mikhafares2509]

Insane 🤝👏👏👏

[@garyparker9847]

STRATOPAUL!!

[@RockG.o.d]

This will be the les paul super modern in future. Well hear me out. Old les paul models. P90 or humbucks, then les paul modern with humbuck with single coil switch, now you got the super modern with single coil.

[@bread6085]

There’s already les Paul’s that do that with coil splits

[@RockG.o.d]

@@bread6085 yeah but they’re still humbuckers

[@bread6085]

@@RockG.o.d eh true but some coil splits can be very convincing. My charvel has coil splits and it sounds almost identical to my strat.

[@godzilla964]

Love the Finland flag design.

[@warshipsatin8764]

that sounds great. ive been thinking about doing this myself. sometimes i want the single coil sound but i just love the look and feel of les pauls i dont have much experience modding guitars - would it be more difficult to use tele pickups instead?

[@donwade-di8ny]

I must apologize for the incoherent rambling on my prior text! It was the phone it wasn't me😮😮😮😮

[@stevepelham9010]

The sound I would wish from a Strat, well some Strats will but more often not.

[@asdaven1]

Then you might like a Tele or a P90 Les Paul. Or a P90 SG. Strats are the brightest of them all. I have a Tele with a series switch (4 way instead of 3 way) and its probably the most versitile guitar I own. Not quite the same as a humbucker but thickens it. Les Paulish with the series, Tele sounds with the Bridge, and the Neck on my setup at least sounds alot like a Strat. Middle position for in between Tele and Strat tones. Everybody assumes Teles are super bright because most Tele players use the bridge pickup where Strat players dont and usually use the Neck. Now a Strat Bridge that is super bright. Teles have hotter wound pickups than Strats as well. In fact id love to hear Tele pickups in a Les Paul. Strats are for the Strat sound especially if its setup for a Tremelo even if you never use it. The block, bridge, springs is where you get you bell like tones out of a Strat. People that have a Hard Tail Strat might as well have a Tele because you lose the benefit there. I even have mine blocked cause I dont use it but would never go with the hardtail because that tremolo even unused is a main part of the sound and tone

[@stevepelham9010]

@@asdaven1 Yeah that is right so I do have a P90 LP Goldtop! My favorit. And there is one Charvel series 1 clone because I love the strat design but not the Strat sound and a couple of Strats that I do not play that much. I find Strats to be kind of flimsy and up in the face. Sounds nice unplugged one can play kumbaya sitting arund the fire as with an acoustic but plugged in there is to much going on. It is simple to play "wrong" on a Strat and it will came out as something cool, some guitarists have made it that way. A Lp will not forgive such playing around.

[@agungwayne3090]

Not bad actually, great job dude.

[@wavelesstime914]

sounds like wilder tele

[@seanhonan9152]

It goes to show u......weed just keeps getting better and better🤣🤣🤣

[@miguelmikemigs]

Hey man. That tone is bonkers! Where did you get the wiring diagram? I wanted to replace my humbucker neck with a single coil but can't seem to find the exact wiring diagram for it online.

[@kuitaristi3003]

I didn't use any wiring diagram because i didn't know which wire is what because different colors. I just solder those two wires of pickups to right places on the pot and it works, like on strat. There's hot and bare wire like humbuckers so it's pretty simple. If you don't know your pickups wire colors then try to solder one way and if not working then other way.

[@miguelmikemigs]

@@kuitaristi3003 yeah. I was thinking that too. Thanks man!

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@miguelmikemigs Great. I forget to say that, you may have to continue that neck single coil wire because single coil wire is usually shorter than humbucker wire. Just solder another wire to the point of pickup wire head.

[@miguelmikemigs]

@@kuitaristi3003 i soldered it 2 hours ago. Man o man, i got a totally new (amazing) guitar and i didnt even need to spend crazy tons. Thanks for all the help! Very much appreciated!

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@miguelmikemigs Nice to hear.

[@moulikchandna6266]

At zeppelin test i was about to close the video but finally forbiddend myself to do so

[@leoarjuncrasto]

Sounds killer

[@ilikeguitars3511]

thats pure evil...........love it

[@w0ke_destroyer]

The sound is very 70's

[@JeanMarceaux]

That's literally a 2/3 Gibson Corvus III. I won't tell you how much of a pain in the ass G-spaced single coils are to find. The only option I've found that fits are Alumitones from Lace.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Wow i didn't know about that kind of Gibson. Thanks :)

[@JeanMarceaux]

@@kuitaristi3003 you're welcome :^) they're wacky looking, but actually a lot of fun to play. Sound good, too. The 3 single coil one actually sounds surprisingly beefy and with a lot of loww-end and presence for a single coil. Another Gibson that had single coils that comes to mind is the XPL-400, a DC Les Paul stule axe with a Kahler tremolo of all things.

[@Eztheel.panther]

really nice

[@Xuxixnywhwj1725]

It's a Tele

[@kuitaristi3003]

Almost but not fully. Tele is brighter and has twang and my version is just LP plank with strat pickups.

[@alexmason6191]

​@@kuitaristi3003 so does it sound like strat then?I can't decide if a wood affects the sound or doesn't

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@alexmason6191 I think it sounds more strat than tele. My opinion wood effects but just a little. Pickup differences are more effective.

[@wesleyAlan9179]

Cool 👍

[@garyfxxk]

If u wanna do a sound demonstration, do it in clean tone

[@kuitaristi3003]

Yea i know but i was after Zeppelin kind of tone and was curious how les paul would sound with singles. There is clean demos in youtube some other players.

[@MoreThan_Bob1776]

@@kuitaristi3003 true other players have clean demos but i guarantee the majority are overdriven 🥺

[@alejandroblanco2071]

Don't you dare demo that awesome guitar with a clean sound !...

[@numbersabcdefg]

Is there any role against buying $30 audio interface?

[@renato6586]

If you wanna hear a single coil Les Paul demonstration in clean tone, search for one or, even better, get one yourself.

[@Nenga117]

I’d pay good money for you to ship me one to the states

[@wesphonic]

Awesome experiment! Are these pickups still wired in series like the humbuckers are in a Les Paul, or were they wired in parallel like a Strat? I’d be curious if the Les Paul familiar sound you’re getting from this setup is due to the pickups and how they’re sequenced in the circuit. Great video!

[@ulyssestyler9685]

On a typical Les Paul, the humbuckers on their own are wired series but when combined in the middle position, are typically wired parallel. Keep in mind that humbuckers themselves are pairs of single coils. It's kind of confusing but generally speaking most guitars default to parallel wiring whenever two pickups from different positions are combined; series wiring in this context is usually a mod or a special custom shop feature. But when two coils from the same pickup are together it is more common for them to be wired in series. TL;DR the series/parallel paradigm is not really relevant on this guitar when using just neck or just bridge, but in the middle position it has a lot more in common with the parallel wiring most Gibsons have in the middle position (even though all the other positions on Gibson guitars usually are series)

[@daggercatz7297]

Oh thats so weird, it actually sounds like both a Les Paul and a Strat..

[@kuitaristi3003]

More like LP tho

[@ulyssestyler9685]

It doesn't really sound that different from what Strats and teles already can do (depending on signal chain and amp settings). Trust me, in a blind test against other guitars, you'd have a much tougher time saying which one sounds like it came from the Les Paul

[@cyberprimate]

Maybe because you used 500k pots.

[@aab9828]

Wouldn't that be Jaguar?

[@tonepot2339]

Can you please explain or make a video on how you managed to install and fit the single coil in the humbucker cavity? Thanks

[@kuitaristi3003]

Sorry but i don't have these pickups anymore. Singles have those screw holes sides like humbuckers so i just install those same way like humbuckers.

[@Roi_TFN]

Some aftermarket sites like guitarfetish have adapters.

[@tonepot2339]

@@Roi_TFN thanks. I'll look into that

[@wrongchordsrecords]

it sounds good

[@gnulf8495]

My God that sounds f n good.maybe you should show gibson

[@dr.krieger6563]

So you made a telecaster.

[@MezzMcGillicuddy1]

Um… No.

[@bobdillon1138]

With a 24.75 neck.

[@ov02002]

wow this is what ive been looking for. im a noob but you think i can put texas specials on a epiphone? Ive been meaning to try it but no one seems to have done it on the web. I'm not even sure if its possible to put strat pick ups(?) on a epiphone

[@kuitaristi3003]

Sure you can, it just needs little soldering skills. Don't know if those pickups wires are long enough tho? I had to continue my single coils wire to get them longer.

[@falsootaku1364]

0:42

[@mctwistx1248]

sound like black sabat

[@edpazeto9079]

And so, the myth that the Les Paul tone comes from wood dies...

[@kuitaristi3003]

Well i think nobody have think that, the whole tone comes from wood? 😅 I still believe that, wood matters but it's more about the amount of wood than the specie. Of course other parts effects too.

[@warshipsatin8764]

​@@kuitaristi3003i think so too. just as an example, sg's seem to consistently have a more mid range focused tone than les pauls with the exact same pickups. thats why i need both of them lol

[@MrDokek]

@@warshipsatin8764you’d have a point if the SG bridge pickup wasn’t further away from the bridge and the the neck pickup of an SG wasn’t also further from neck than a Les Paul. They’ll sound different no matter what

[@warshipsatin8764]

@@MrDokek damn it thats a good point. if i was a wealthy man id have gibson make me an sg with a bridge pickup the same distance from the bridge as a les paul

[@MrDokek]

@@warshipsatin8764you’re in luck, because Epiphone makes the Les Paul Special ii and SG VE with identical pickup locations. They sound exactly the same. Not a Gibson but if you want an affordable way to get Les Paul sounds in an SG, that’s the way to go

[@Xanywa]

I’ve been thinking about putting a tele bridge in my Gibson was 135, are you still digging doing this ?

[@kuitaristi3003]

Hi. Single coils on les paul was fun experiment to try but i still like humbuckers more on LP. You can try always tele pickup but it's bigger than normal strat pickup so it won't go as easy maybe to your Gibson, or line up that great. Search here youtube videos where some dudes try tele pickup on their les paul.

[@wormstheii]

Isnt splitting humbuckers easier then replacing them

[@kuitaristi3003]

Yes but it's not completely same sound. Personally i don't like split sound, i think it sounds just too thin, not true single-coil.

[@alejandroblanco2071]

Which make & model of single coils did you install?

[@kuitaristi3003]

Don't know because these didn't have any mark, only i know is that, these was real single-coils

[@cloud_s_97]

Gibson Stratocaster

[@kuitaristi3003]

This is Tokai :) But Gibson really have some of their own strat models too.

[@cloud_s_97]

@@kuitaristi3003 someday I'll replace my strat pickups with Seymour Duncan pickups (btw my strat was a squier bullet hss)

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@cloud_s_97 If your strat has stock squier pickups then upgrade to duncan pickups is great way to improve the sound.

[@canrt8092]

You should sell these

[@kuitaristi3003]

Haha :) Well i didn't like this experiment as much as some others here.

[@Glicksman1]

You know, with all that distortion I have no idea what that guitar really sounds like. A few moments clean would tell all.

[@ivanjulian2532]

So true.... so very very true....

[@21xK]

Very cool stuff! I'm planning on doing the same. Check this idea out; Seymour Duncan humbucker for the bridge, strat pickup on the neck. Dunno about the specs, just tossing ideas. I've got the plans on the ironing bench, so we'll just have to see how it plays itself out. ;)

[@kuitaristi3003]

Yeah, just try it then you will see and hear the result. When i have an idea i think a moment, should i do that and then i do it anyway because i'm curious. Like a mad scientist stuff :)

[@21xK]

@@kuitaristi3003 I dig the Finnish Les Paul btw. :V Nice axe :)

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@21xK Yea, i got an idea to make it like that with contact plastic because guitar is white but i have already take it off for now cause i like it how this guitar looks stock.

[@redcherry6914]

Les Paul?

[@JarkkoKokkonen]

Kiva saundi! Mikä ton lisäpalikan nimi on? Toi siis joka täyttää ylimääräisen tilan humbbarin kolossa.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Moi. Straton mikit on suoraan noissa humppareiden koloissa eli muuta en laittanut koloihin ku mikit 🙂 En kyllä tajua miksi monet tykkää tästä soundista mun mielestä aika hirveä 😅

[@JarkkoKokkonen]

No niinpä näyttää olevan kun katson tarkemmin. No, en itekkään rehellisesti sanottuna ihan tosta saundista tykkää, vaan olen Jacksoniin vaihtamassa kaulamikkiä :) Ja tarkoituksena vedellä puhtaammilla saundeilla. Särösaundia varten on sitten humbbari tallassa.

[@FF-so3su]

Love it👍❤️ Did you solder them yourself? If so what wires where ? I fancy trying it.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Hi. Yeah i swap the pickups myself and solder too but i don't remember what wires go where? I know that, hot wire goes to pot slug and ground wire on the pot like humbucker. I remember just trying cause wires was different color than some humbuckers. I advice to keep humbuckers because those sounds better with les paul.

[@FF-so3su]

@@kuitaristi3003 thanks🙂👍

[@GodfamZeta42069]

i need it.

[@brogoram]

Is this a true single coil or the stacked one that is actually a humbucker?

[@kuitaristi3003]

True single coil. Some old which brand i don't know. Not that good singles but for the test those were okay.

[@Vlad-bi1ss]

I'm used to see stratocaster with humbuckers, but not les paul with single coils, I just can't accept that

[@ryanzeigler9763]

FYI many of the classic LP's you've heard have single coils, what a dumb thing to say

[@kdakan]

Sounds like a tele to me.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Little maybe but not fully.

[@FlockofSmeagles]

That's because it is a tele. Body doesn't matter when you're generating your sound through magnets and a distorted speaker.

[@FlockofSmeagles]

@@94nolo Oh boy, you're right. It's an indisputable fact. You put gain on any guitar. It doesn't matter what it is. you're going to lose the sound of the wood. Your speaker is more important to your sound than your actual guitar is. The science is out there. Whether or not you choose to let go of all of that money you've over the years is your problem.

[@FlockofSmeagles]

@nxlxn Your anecdotes don't change facts. A simple Google search on the subject might help you with that cognitive bias you have going on there.

[@kdakan]

@@FlockofSmeagles Everything contributes to the sound, it's not that simple to write off everything other than the pickups. To me, the bridge/trem type and pickup type (single coils/humbuckers), and the amp make the sound, yet body and fretboard also sightly contribute. Taking extreme examples, like an aluminum solid body, a resonator guitar body, and a wood holowbody guitar will have distinctly different sounds even if you use the same pickup and amp. This guitar in the video does not have the tele bridge, but to me, it sounds similar to a tele, maybe because it doesn't have a trem system that changes the sustain. Different from a strat or a jazzmaster, which also have single coils, but with different bridge and trem systems that make two very different sounds.

[@transmundanemusic]

Surprise surprise, it still sounds like an LP. An LP w single coils. Wood and build don’t matter my ass.

[@ulyssestyler9685]

They matter but much less than you think. For one thing you have no idea what his amp settings/signal chain are like. I personally mainly play a Telecaster these days and it's a trivial matter getting it to sound like a Les Paul. Maybe not 100% but at least 90%. More than enough to nail the vibe if not the exact texture. The vast majority of the tone is in the electronics/signal chain. The technology behind guitar pickups is simply not sophisticated enough to capture all the nuanced differences that different tone woods should logically be responsible for. This has been widely documented in countless experiments online in the last decade.

[@transmundanemusic]

@@ulyssestyler9685 I didn’t say how much I think wood matters. I think wood matters but it’s well behind electronics, amp, pedals etc. That’s where we agree, but what you’re wrong about is this: pickups work both electromagnetically and microphonically. The entire argument that pickups are not microphonic is simply wrong. They get potted to reduce microphonic tendencies, but the potting doesn’t eliminate it. Pickups absolutely pickup acoustic resonant frequencies, this is blatantly true. The way to test it is to simply sing into your pickups or play music on your phone into your pickup. You’ll see the sound comes through your amp. Fun fact: the intro to the song dead and bloated by STP was recorded by Scott Weiland singing into a pickup. So, the “documentation” you’re referencing, which I’ve watched a ton of, is all pseudoscientific and simply highlighting that electronics matter more, not that tonewood has no impact.

[@ulyssestyler9685]

@@transmundanemusic good pickups are less microphonic and the components of the signal picked up by microphonics are greatly, vastly overpowered by the electromagnetic parts of the signal. You don't really hear the tink-tink thin little sound of your raw strings come through the speaker. It's a minor part of the sound at best. So, once again, the significance is greatly overstated. You almost had a good point.

[@transmundanemusic]

@@ulyssestyler9685 good pickups are not "less microphonic", they get potted to reduce the tendencies, that's it, and some people still prefer non potted pickups. You almost had a good counter, but you just regurgitated what I clearly stated: The wood has a minimal impact, it's not as important as the other factors, but it still contributes. It's just a simple fact, and I've given you two real world tests as well as a real world example to test out the ability of pickups to transmit acoustic frequencies.

[@ulyssestyler9685]

@@transmundanemusic if what you're saying is true, isn't it funny how nobody ever markets these facts as proof of the warmth of mahogany etc? It's almost lie it's insanely inconsequential, at best

[@Dimas5]

What is this abomination!?!? Not gonna lie, it sounds sick

[@ernestschultz5065]

still kind of sounds like a Les Paul.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Yup it's still LP but sounds thinner.

[@jorgeambriz5411]

of course... the tone is in the wood.

[@kuitaristi3003]

@@jorgeambriz5411 In the wood also and the amount of it, yes.

[@bluwng]

@@jorgeambriz5411 no it’s mostly in the pickup

[@chrisv2557]

@@jorgeambriz541190% scale length, pickups, pickup placement, pots and the bridge. Everything else dont matter AS much

[@permculture]

It would be nice to hear it clean.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Yeah but it was just a test mostly for myself to hear how singles sounds in les paul so i made just overdrive clip because that was more important for me with LP than clean. I have humbuckers in now and those are better. I didn't know that, this video will get this much attention.

[@Weneedaplague]

@@kuitaristi3003 was a good experiment thank you for sharing

[@awesomeguy6777]

Sounds like tele but not, like lp but not hahaha

[@kuitaristi3003]

Exactly

[@approachingthesky]

can i know what guitar is that tho? it rly looks pretty and ive been lookin for a LP like that i cant rly tell the brand can u id it pls? great playing and amazing video idea too btw loved it

[@kuitaristi3003]

Hi. It's Tokai ALC 53

[@mondvlogph]

Brand Name: Tokai Produced From: Japan at 80s Model Name: Love Rock ALC53 Built Base on Gibson Les Paul USA

[@approachingthesky]

@@mondvlogph thank you a lot i rly aprecciate it

[@approachingthesky]

@@kuitaristi3003 thanks

[@arrrrrran3043]

That’s cool and all but….. why

[@kuitaristi3003]

Because i was curious :)

[@arrrrrran3043]

@@kuitaristi3003 can’t argue with that

[@jorgemartin3422]

UNA BUENA REVIEW DEBERÍA EMPEZAR MOSTRANDO EL SONIDO LIMPIO EN CADA MICRÓFONO. DESPUÉS PUEDES AGREGAR EFECTOS. PERO LA "VOZ REAL" DEL INSTRUMENTO ES EL SONIDO LIBRE DE DISTORSIONES.

[@kuitaristi3003]

Yes, but this is not review this is just playing les paul with single-coils