you got it for free so this upgrade totally makes sense for you but i would not spend such an amount of money for a sign and some minor tweaks but thats just how commercial signature marketing works apparently. great video thank you again 🖤
@BaritoneGoatStudio8 ай бұрын
After a couple instances of having to modify a guitar for pickups, I invested in some small sharp chisels. Makes doing small route adjustments quick and easy and you can shave off fractions of a millimeter. You would never suspect that it didn’t come from the factory.
@stegerguitars8 ай бұрын
Nice....its a talent....
@BigLenny.8 ай бұрын
sounds great but the price is just a dealbreaker imo 😂🙈
@smeemusic8 ай бұрын
If I had a dollar for every time I had to forcefully make something work, I’d be able to afford to not have to forcefully make things work. Lololol good job taking control of the situation and getting results. I hope fishman takes note and maybe adjusts their pickup dimensions.
@bizzski8 ай бұрын
Those OwnHammer Low Tuned IRs are awesome. I got them because of your channel.
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
I use them all the time
@user-by6eb6zo7g8 ай бұрын
Pickups aside, that guitar is gorgeous ! Esp's aesthetically never grab me, but something about the silver accents and that burst really do it.
@catch330008 ай бұрын
You’re a legend for sanding pickups 😢 the guitar looks great with the fishman covers. Great content as usual keep it coming!
@jean-philippemorin11768 ай бұрын
I think I prefer the classic open core ones, but that just me. I think they sound pretty close, the rz being a bit more modern. They sound great through your kit. The fact the rz do not fit in standard routing is a no go for me. I think you did the right move modifying/sanding the pickups. If you are to sell the guitar you will get more value than if you had sanded pickup cavities. You can always put back the original pickups in. I hope fishman have the pickups casing dimensions somewhere on their site, they should have them. It is always a good idea to double check this before buying. Like emgs it seems they have diffrent sizes available.
@Turbo-D8 ай бұрын
great to have them in a new guitar but as a replacement it will cost you a whooping 370€, heavy price increase over the standard just for his sign as it always happen with overpriced signature stuff.. i think i pass on this one, thanks man & peace ✌🎸
@Venemoth6668 ай бұрын
Huge low notes popup :) +cleaner upper tones very nice, open core sounds more like split coils
@Stubz_Perez12 күн бұрын
The RZ's have more clarity and definition with chugs. The open-cores were good and had a tone that is also really chunky like RZ's but as a main tone they're a little too muddy sounding. Just my opinion 💪 sick comparison video!
@JeffStrickland8 ай бұрын
Super helpful and informative video, as usual, thanks Jon! I like the look of the original pickups (without the bobbin covers), but wow the new ones sound fantastic, especially so on the clean tones.
@BradBrunazzi7 ай бұрын
I’ve taken a rotary tool to quite a few pickups in order to make the screw wings of the baseplate fit the guitar routing, as well as to shorten the pole screws sticking out of the bottom.
@adamstrachn8 ай бұрын
That finish actually looks better with the covered Fishmans. They have really nice string clarity. Killer demo and tones as well 💯 Be well brother 👍🏼
@thomask95778 ай бұрын
Those sound great! I love my open cores, but I might have to experiment a little more, especially with the solderless quick connect stuff - it makes everything a breeze, minus the pickup routing 🤣
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
Yeah, minus that hahaha
@ChannelForty28 ай бұрын
Man those sound good, and as always too notch playing man! Good job sir!
@Wyatth588 ай бұрын
I ran into this same problem when replacing the Open Core Classic in my LTD SN-1 with the Fluff Fishman. It didn’t fit the route in the pickguard, so now I have a nice Ryan Bruce Fishman shelf decoration.
@deskduckerАй бұрын
You can mail to me
@chadt55848 ай бұрын
Not really a fan of direct mount pickups. Can look nice, but I also don’t mind the look of rings and appreciate their simplicity and adjustability. With that said, as a solution, I’d probably go ahead and rout it out and use mounting rings.
@RyRyTheBassGuy8 ай бұрын
Yeah, rings would be the thing to do in this situation. Since you can only enlarge the neck cavity towards the bridge, it would look bad having bigger cutouts for the mounting tabs exposed.
@deanopie43908 ай бұрын
I had the same problem fitting a fishman set into a 1986 Greco les Paul and had to shave down the mounts same as you. Nothing broke in my case luckily and it only took a few minutes with a file.
@MaxPowersTastyTones8 ай бұрын
Awesome video! I’m glad they fit now
@cmd_f58 ай бұрын
That's crazy having to sand by hand, but glad it worked out! :D they sound massive for sure. Awesome cleans also. Thinking my next guitar will have Fishmans of some kind. cheers
@ChrisPuckett4 ай бұрын
I’m about to do this exact upgrade on my E2 Eclipse, but I think I’m going for the Open Core Moderns. The Open Core classics sound amazing. But I need something heavier for my style right now. The Open Core classics have amazing sustain and the notes just ring out forever. They might be the best pick ups I’ve ever played, but I do want something heavier.
@kurokogenanoyo8 ай бұрын
Nice tone! I love ESP (LTD,E-II...) guitars. 素晴らしい!
@lozovoymax19418 ай бұрын
Has anybody done anything like that? All the time! 😁I've re-soldered 5 guitars. Most common problem - ponentiometers. They often don't fit holes. Had to do hole bigger on PRS S2 and Mayones. And stock potentiometer knob does not fit😁Also Mayones has frameless mount with M2.5 bolts and that does not work with major part of pickups. Stock EMGs have drilled holes to fit M2.5 bolts. You have to drill bigger pickup mount holes. And this is not what you want to do if you plan swap the pickups. But DIY solution comes to help here: just solder regular bolt nut to pickup mount ear. Works like a charm. First time see that pickup does not fit. I have resoldered PRS pickups to classic zebra open core on PRS and was able to swap modern as well. But, at the end, all that DIY stuff when things are not fitting together rewards you with some degree of freedom. Now pickup swap between EMGs and all sorts of Fishman - easy cake. Few weeks of swaps and listening and you got perfect matches. Well, gold Adler pickups and Jackson Skullyard looks weird😁 but that's best pair of pickups for that guitar for me. Fishman Classic zebras on brown PRS look stunning and sound good. White moderns on BC Rich warbeast also look stunning, and so far, best match for that guitar.
@LonelyRocker8 ай бұрын
What a combo!! Tones are great! And I think you stumbled onto something. Do a whole series on different pickups to see how they respond to your brilliant modification! A must see!! ;-)
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
Haha!
@aaaargl8 ай бұрын
had the same fitting issues when changing from fluence merrows in the schecter KM6 to duncans. the duncan wes hauch humbucker was wayyyyy to big, so i decided to make it work with a Nazgul. i didnt want to modify the guitar body as well, so i grinded away on the nazgul, even losing the ground wire solder on it. but i managed to get everything into place, a bit to snug for my comfort, as resonance in the guitar really easily conducts into the pickups making the guitar prone to feedbacking haha. on the neck position i was lucky enough to get my hands on an OEM dimarzio john petrucci model, that have the same dimensions as the fluence open core, so no work was needed to be done there.
@picksalot18 ай бұрын
Both sets sounded good, and I didn't have a consistent favorite. I use a Modeler, so my approach is dial in the sound I like and EQ as necessary. 🤷
@JayBruceWorld8 ай бұрын
Definitely prefer the open core classics
@laurentreymond6 ай бұрын
Guitar looks so much better with covered pickups. Besides the troubles with dimensions, you didn't had any trouble with the wiring, considering Krupse model is more based around the Modern Fluence ?
@GearStuffandThings8 ай бұрын
The difference was much more noticeable when comparing clean. At higher gain settings it was negligible IMO
@dougb38548 ай бұрын
that amp is f'in amazing
@NobotyBoi8 ай бұрын
I've done the same thing trying to fit active mount Black Winter pickups into a cavity on a Harley Benton guitar. Talk about anxiety😂
@LucasLeCompteMusic8 ай бұрын
RZK's sound great!
@mtlmark758 ай бұрын
I had to do that with the geezer butler set specifically the jazz pickup to install into my buddies Ibanez bass. Took the dremel and did the exact same thing. I hate direct mount pickups
@mtlmark758 ай бұрын
Also I wish they would make triangle tabs on all these pickups. I’ve clipped the bulky square tabs on most of my pickups to fit them in the direction mount holes in my Ibanez guitars
@Antjohns898 ай бұрын
Man that guitar looks awesome gotta do what you gotta do sometimes lol
@stug50418 ай бұрын
Hate to break to to you but the will Adler neck pickup is literally the classic neck without the single coil voice 😂
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
I know, it looks nicer though :)
@stug50418 ай бұрын
@@SonicDriveStudio 100% with you on that my man! Great video as always
@kettnsaeg8 ай бұрын
I like the versatility of the Fishmans compared to standard humbuckers without different voicings/coil splitting. but, to be honest, somewhere in the back of my mind I hear Glen Fricker from SMG screaming "bumping the microphone, that is recording the cab, will affect the sound more than a pickup change" and I totally get what he's saying.
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
I would suggest making up your own mind! To me pickups definitely are important!
@kettnsaeg8 ай бұрын
Oh I've bought and swapped stock pickups for fishman fluence moderns myself. They are nice pickups, indeed.@@SonicDriveStudio
@VMinoda8 ай бұрын
what?? how come something like pickup size or pickup routing dimensions is not standardized??
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
It surprised me too
@BlackSeries_8 ай бұрын
Looking from the standpoint of mechanical engineering, the Guitar industry is stuck in the 50s - Which is no wonder regarding historical correct Guitars but when you look at modern Guitars it is a shame that even simple things like the pickup screws are not standardized and are chosen seemingly arbitrary... The switch to the metric system is absolutely overdue in my opinion.
@lozovoymax19418 ай бұрын
Interesting how passive voicing on RZK compares to Adler set passive voicing. RZK seems to have pretty good passive voicing, not modern standard one. At the same time, it has Modern active voicing which I prefer on my amps over Modern passive voicings. Looks like RZK took best voices from Modern and Adler set.
@roger7672 ай бұрын
you have a guitar with pickup rings, it probably would have fit on there no problem, lol
@SokolRock8 ай бұрын
To be honest, I was surprised that you, with obviously a lot of experience with musical equipment, still didn’t know that on guitars without mounting rings, the dimensions of the cavities are usually precisely adjusted to the sizes of the installed humbuckers and you cannot easily change uncovered pickups to covered ones. :)
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
Lesson learned! ;)
@Walter_Hartwell_White_Sr8 ай бұрын
I'm heavily biased. But if i try be less biased. God DAMN do the RZK's sound good. (plus bias points)
@hyperbolekid5 ай бұрын
Will the RZK pickups directly swap with an EMG pickup?
@MrBallsOfficial8 ай бұрын
Kinda wanna swap the open core fishmans on the vintage gold satin ec1000 ctm with the fishman Willy Adlers
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
Will do that soon!
@Mar333228 ай бұрын
F the pickups that amp sounds killer haha
@absolutewarband3 ай бұрын
I put classics in 2 of my EVH Wolfgangs. Has to sand the ear ends on the pickups to fit the guitar but did not damage the pickups and it only took me 30 minutes for all 4. Sorry to hear about your experience. I have Moderns and classic, prefer the classics. Check out my channel for my music videos featuring the classic!
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
What are your thoughts on these pickups and the differences?
@PaulGlover8 ай бұрын
I tried them Vs the dimarzio fusion edge and it's an odd one. I do live these RZK though super tight. Dig this man and your channel. You ROCK!!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYWYhaNteZmif6Msi=ONZo5rw2NYCQoGUr
@kinglord51638 ай бұрын
Hello my man need some help: What metal pickups for 7 string should I definitely check out?
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
So many good options out there
@Chugg.Norris8 ай бұрын
Not even close to being worth that money 💯
@stegerguitars8 ай бұрын
i might have done it all....
@SonicDriveStudio8 ай бұрын
I would definitely understand but I'm glad I did it :)
@stegerguitars8 ай бұрын
@@SonicDriveStudio what i meant was that since i build and repair guitars, i've done alot of improv like you did to make things work and be 'custom'....good job on yours! of course i've got lots and lots of tools to help out....