Dear Big Bosses... keep letting Aaron spend the money for the vids. This one was fun. Always wanted to compare this set up. Great job AC!
@Unchainedmaple8882 жыл бұрын
A reverse angled humbucker option would be great, basically like the Jimi Hendrix reverse angled single coil option. One of the problems I always have with a lot of bridge pickups is ice pick treble and a reversed angled humbucker would help reduce ice pick treble.
@whoisthenext12 жыл бұрын
Totally agree with you.
@michaelcottle62702 жыл бұрын
I'm sure Warmoth would be able to do that if you ask nicely
@Okla_Soft2 жыл бұрын
I agree, taming the treble a tad and keeping the bass strings tighter is the way to go for me too, if I did an angle pickup I’d go reverse.
@prodigal712 жыл бұрын
100% agree
@craigpoole26022 жыл бұрын
If "ice pick" treble is an issue....reversing the pickup angle probably isn't your fix. I'm certain it would look different, cool is subjective, but not enough of a change to cure your problem.
@ShredAimlessly922 жыл бұрын
This was incredibly helpful, let the bosses know that we keep coming back for these videos with every upload!
@mattb3832 жыл бұрын
Very close shootout but to my ears the angled one sounds a little sweeter as well as tighter on the rhythm playing. BTW, excellent song choices for this demo!
@marcotaticchi53432 жыл бұрын
Bravo Aaron! Thank you for the high quality of all your videos. 👏👏👏
@DBSG19762 жыл бұрын
Love that you showed the pics with your old guitars!
@valebliz2 жыл бұрын
I prefer the low strings on the straight config tbh, more definition. The angled is a bit more mellow as expected.
@30pitchcleaver2 жыл бұрын
Yep, but now let's imagine it wasn't a JB but from a 335 @ 8 OHM ?
@carloquibot Жыл бұрын
@@30pitchcleaver i was thinking of doing this with my 335 shaped guitar. I was planning of putting in only a bridge seymour duncan invader pickup in it and when I stumbled upon these angled vs straight comparison. I thought to myself, maybe It would be best for me to angle it up since I love my palm mutes to be a bit more bassy and punchy than regular. Just a thought I'm not sure if it's a good idea hahaha
@9642SM72 жыл бұрын
Please continue these videos.
@niclastname2 жыл бұрын
I'd be interested to hear it slanted the other way! I never need my low strings to have more low end on the bridge pickup (especially when playing lower tunings*), but I also don't need my high strings to to be so shrill. I've always wanted a strat bridge pickup to slant the other way for the same reason, or at least straighten it out to bring the treble side forward with the low side so that the high strings aren't so icepicky. I've never understood why they decided to slant it the way that it is. *You get issues with this when multiscale guitars don't slant their pickups to compensate for the slanted bridge saddles. The low strings will be a bit muddy when you try to play heavy chuggy stuff because they've essentially slanted the pickup the other way by moving the bridge back and not the pickup. Thanks for the awesome video as always!
@8evolutions2 жыл бұрын
Great shootout! Angled vs. straight- I love the look of the angled humbucker. To me, the audible difference was more noticeable on clean-then again I’m listening on my cellphone speaker. Nice 80’s riffs! Loved hearing the White Lion! Thanks for sharing this!
@tonya41572 жыл бұрын
Cool stuff. It is useful. Thank you!
@xShamanx2 жыл бұрын
This is such an interesting video. Thank you for breaking it all down so clearly.
@GregsGarage2 жыл бұрын
Test 5 seemed the most obvious. Great stuff Aaron. Thx for the bonus 80's riffage!
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
I thought so too! The low notes lost their snap and became much more round.
@samferraro6756 Жыл бұрын
Another great video, I love topics like this, concepts guitar players have debated forever! Aaron, you're the "myth buster" of all things guitar!
@eddiejr5402 жыл бұрын
Aaron...loved the shoot-out...and yes, you can still rock in America!!!!
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
Daddy checks....is everything OK? Not a sound as she makes her getaway!
@jackp85832 жыл бұрын
Thanks Aaron, that's a question answered! 👍
@moparbryan2 жыл бұрын
I’m an 80’s kid and it just sounds right to me angled. I wouldn’t be able to tell if I didn’t know you’d moved it but that said I did honestly prefer the “beef”. It’s subtle but it’s definitely there and I like it! Oh and keep up these kind of videos tell the bosses I said your doing gods work, or that it’s crucial to the integrity of our nation! Hell tell ‘em this is the only thing keeping you from selling your organs for picks and strings money just don’t stop what your doing!
@scottmacphee352 жыл бұрын
That was superb. I was surprised to prefer the tones on the straight to the angled.
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
Most surprising with the Every Breath You Take clip. Those low strings sounded really soft.
@jessewilkins84152 жыл бұрын
yep
@normanperkel1392 жыл бұрын
Very enlightening video Aaron…. surprisingly it made a bigger difference than I thought it would. Thanks for the great work producing this!
@sandywarmoth-hosfelt17692 жыл бұрын
Love that photo for so many reasons.
@JohnDoe97642 жыл бұрын
Great vid as always, Aaron!
@shaofu4242 жыл бұрын
holy majoly!!! that tele behind you on left is amazingly beautiful... wowzers, good work \m/
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
That's a Warmoth Meadowhawk. We released just a few. Hopefully a few more later this year. Very limited. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4C5YqdqedmrmaM
@DevilsFourString2 жыл бұрын
Loving these videos. Aaron is a great host and guitarist, and I think you guys are uniquely positioned to do exactly these kinds of comparisons. Absolutely love it.
@destiny-theseries2 жыл бұрын
Wow! A bigger difference in tone than I would have thought!
@nitramvoksmad24042 жыл бұрын
Thanks to, Aaron!
@nohalo72 жыл бұрын
JOURNEY!!!!!!!!!
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
I'm in a Journey tribute band now, so expect to hear many more going forward! ;)
@trevordeke2 жыл бұрын
I would be grateful beyond measure if you could do the same thing with a Tele bridge pickup - there's all those fancy teles out there with a reverse bridge!
@kennyleejohnson5253 Жыл бұрын
I listened and tried not to look, but I could definitely hear the difference. May be my next mod..
@NickHillMakesMusic2 жыл бұрын
Fun experiment. I dig these types of videos. Keep it up Aaron. Can't wait for the next video!
@godface81 Жыл бұрын
Cool Video Aaron, Thanks
@higgnbe Жыл бұрын
I never thought it would make that big of a difference it does thanks
@baileywatts13042 жыл бұрын
the angled sounds a lot more bell like on the arpeggios. I didn't notice much difference on just strumming as much, but it's overall just a bit more balanced. Looks like Eddie knew what he was doing on guitar, and that's not really shocking.
@TheEchelon2 жыл бұрын
Eddie did it because the pole pieces didn't line up, as was described in the video at the end....
@RyoCanCan2 жыл бұрын
@@TheEchelon Indeed that's pretty much it. There weren't many if any f spaced hb's at the time so by angling you get the outer strings to line up with at least something.
@michaelpacinus24211 ай бұрын
Eddie loved sex
@antoniopavicevac-ortiz88862 жыл бұрын
Please keep these videos coming! Very informative and interesting!
@johncbeer2 жыл бұрын
Dear Big Bosses, we love Aaron's videos. They are entertaining, they are informative, they foster repeat purchases. So pretty please, with sugar on top, keep funding his efforts.
@antv44082 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I needed at exactly the right time. Thank you!
@moose66662 жыл бұрын
I thought the real reason for the angled humbucker was the trem string spacing was wider than the Gibson pickup EVH put in Franky. The angle allowed the pickup to cover the wider string spread. Simple geometry
@moose66662 жыл бұрын
Well if I'd watched the video all the way through, I'd have seen you covered it. Sorry Arron
@jessenicholson17772 жыл бұрын
Very cool comparison. Would be interesting to see with more of a PAF-style humbucker rather than the JB. I feel like adding the extra beef to a PAF-style pickup which would be much more mid and treble focused would work very well. In this test I felt like the straight layout worked better with the JB.
@nellawell49762 жыл бұрын
Yep, straight seems to be sharper.
@alanbarry35982 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! I wonder how it would sound to have the humbucker slanted the other way, i. e., low string side closer to the bridge and high string side angled toward the neck? Perhaps the Warmoth Body of Tonal Discovery can be adapted to another experiment.
@antv44082 жыл бұрын
Or angle the neck pickup and see what that does. Would it make a vintage neck humbucker usable with gain?
@nigeldaddyo2 жыл бұрын
Reverse angled bridge pickups make more sense. I have them reversed in my strats (single coil) and never looked back
@Fawkes19782 жыл бұрын
RIP Eddie, He took after Leo Fender himself when he took an extra wide lap steel pickup and angled it to fit under the strings. Except both of them could have angled their pickups the opposite way and ended up with a more balanced sound since the closer pole pieces to the bridge give more definition to the low strings and the further pole pieces warm up the sound from the high strings. One of Paul Gilbert's signature models is like that. Would have been nice to see that test though...
@nate66922 жыл бұрын
Nope - no way Aaron will do that. Warmoth doesn't currently offer it and it'd only result in people bugging them. But yeah - I agree.
@RudyJunior72 жыл бұрын
I use a left handed bridge on my Tele doing just that. It’s one of my favorite guitars. Not sure how much that is making it sound so good but I’m not changing it back.
@Jonathan_Brose10 ай бұрын
Dude, I'm from Brazil. In my hometown, Porto Alegre, in the south of the country, there is a Luthier called Luffing. He's been building guitars since the 80s. I have one of his guitars from the middle of that decade, a Genese 1. Originally, it has two single coils. This morning, by chance, I found a 1983 Kramer Baretta on the internet and decided to install an angled humbucker. His video helped me a lot with this decision. Thank you very much!
@anthonycoraggio2 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing, I was just starting to look at a Mustang/JagStang type build and thinking about exactly this!
@blonk3332 жыл бұрын
I literally asked this question today. Thanks Warmoth for being rad.
@murfmurphy62122 жыл бұрын
I love these videos
@GmanMusicProductions2 жыл бұрын
That's funny that you came out with this video 'cause I was looking at the Kramer Barretta with the angled P/U. You can hear a difference, I think I'd prefer the straight for more cleanish tones but for the Rock stuff the angled had more oomph. Another video shootout: Pickup mounted direct to body vs pickup ring.
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
It's on the list! :)
@knowwhey75592 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget that the songs on the 1st album that don't have tremolo, were played on his Ibanez Destroyer. Straight pickup and a 24.75" scale length. It was all in his fingers.
@dokterzorro Жыл бұрын
Jup, that did it. Gonna try it, put a slanted humbucker in a Strat. It needs some fat tones on the bridge and the slanted one sounded just a tad fuller. Thanks for this vid, it's exactly what I needed to hear.
@666dreamboat2 жыл бұрын
Big bosses this man is doing God's work and is the reason I came across warmoth. Let's keep it up.
@noysydanon88042 жыл бұрын
Angle just looks cool man. Who is sorber enough notice the sounds and besides it’s rock n roll after all
@Hexspa Жыл бұрын
There’s a big difference. In the clean arpeggios, the straight one emphasizes higher harmonics whereas the angled one rounds them off. The chug-bend part had more “depth” with angled and the last muted arp sounded like the middle strings were louder. I retract (and redact) my statement about the harmonics; it’s a 5-1 bass pattern that I’m hearing.
@sskopintsev2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! That was useful!
@jacksolomon4512 жыл бұрын
I'd be lying if I said I said I could hear a difference, but who doesn't love the JB? GOAT
@TVoltG2 жыл бұрын
You Aaron? A Van Halen fan? You don't say... 😂 I love when you play Van Halen riffs.
@davidedwards71722 жыл бұрын
I see a 22 vs 24 fret neck pup shootout coming.
@hyramjackson2 жыл бұрын
That would be great!
@davidedwards71722 жыл бұрын
@@hyramjackson if you look at the way the neck pickup is routed. It’s routed for both 😁
@tysonshirey1 Жыл бұрын
Most excellent video. Thanks bro.!!!!
@soyborne.bornmadeandundone13422 жыл бұрын
Great vid! I was honestly a month or two behind getting around to having you guys make me a body! And I was curious about the slanty bucker lol. Thanks!
@atbear2 жыл бұрын
This was awesome. Great job, Aaron! Definitely keep these Warmoth vids coming!
@riniones2 жыл бұрын
these are great videos; very interesting and useful... thank you, Aaron
@ErikAnders2 жыл бұрын
Legendary
@sethcowan772 жыл бұрын
This guy Aaron, does a good job of explaining stuff. I don't usually absorb info that well. Most people will tell me stuff, and my A.D.D. .....OH look ! A squirrel....
@Peetie_Wheatstraw2 жыл бұрын
You Can Still Rock In America! The angled pickup sounds as though the tone knob (if there was one) is rolled off a bit compared to the regular positioned pickup, mostly on the lower strings.
@michaeldorman2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, not being able to dredge that memory up would have bothered me for a long time.
@captainflamson2 жыл бұрын
That's a kick ass song that does not get heard enough these days, nice choice!
@michaelcottle62702 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thanks Aaron. I preferred the sound of the angled personally - especially on the clean tones. Surprised by the variety of test tunes. Need more VH ;)
@The_Absurdistt2 жыл бұрын
Another winning video. Many thanks and keep them coming! Cheers.
@TechMetalRules Жыл бұрын
Love me some Night Ranger! (and some DeMartini at the end, of course)
@dj_tmc2 жыл бұрын
Long live the Warmoth Body of Tonal Discovery!
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
Huzzah! Here, here!
@diego_cl2 жыл бұрын
I would like to hear the difference with a strat, alla Hendrix... sometimes they are too shrill with distortion at the bridge pickup. flipping the bridge PU could help to unmuffle the tone and cutting some of the highs
@mrnobodyinvr97622 жыл бұрын
Aaron, you rule bro, gotta love just hangin out with another guitarist talking shop. WARMOTH, you win with Aaron out here fronting your products.
@scottpeters44012 жыл бұрын
I always thought Eddie slanted the pickup because he jacked up the cavity with a hammer and chisel when he put the Humbucker in the single coil slot…it ended up crooked….who knows…it does look cool though..
@angusorvid88402 жыл бұрын
Love the tone of the JB. Always awesome. Nice guitar.
@FunkyELF2 жыл бұрын
Damn, that green/teal guitar is beautiful in the background
@cheenu7112 жыл бұрын
Listening to the angled pickup is like finally landing on the sound that you always had in your head. Exactly how I felt when I plugged my Kramer Baretta into an amp for the first time. There's just something about the single angled pickup. It is by far the best lead tone in my arsenal and it cost me sub 200 dollars and a 100 more in upgrades. Eddie was a genius.
@dumpedcabledumpedcable1162 жыл бұрын
Wow, really preferred the slant.
@Dejoblue2 жыл бұрын
New Warmoth product: ToneSlider pickup rings and route. Requires a ToneSlider route. Easily slide from straight to slant bridge pickup configuration with the push of a slider.
@dennischarles93782 жыл бұрын
That guitar on the far left looks incredible
@stevewarren48132 жыл бұрын
On my less-then-stellar computer speakers, I thought the angled pickup sounded better on every take except the "Every Breath You Take" clean demo.
@angusorvid88402 жыл бұрын
Eddie used a standard spaced JB straight mounted on his 5150. Sounded fine to me.
@sunn_bass2 жыл бұрын
This is what I expected. I'm primarily a bass player and standard vs reverse P pickup positioning have a night and day difference from each other. Great video.
@TheEchelon2 жыл бұрын
You call this a night and day difference?
@sunn_bass2 жыл бұрын
@@TheEchelon There's a distinct difference in the side by side comparison especially on the bass side of the slanted humbucker. My ears gravitate to the bass end of the spectrum which is where i hear the difference. In a mix, probably not noticeable. Also the difference could probably be EQd to make them sound virtually the same anyway. Is it worth it? That's up to the individual.
@robmarmaduke2 жыл бұрын
Great work
@LeonRHarvey2 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Thumbs up for RATT! Way too cool!
@liamtahaney7132 жыл бұрын
Big Nuno Bettencourt vibes from that guitar lol
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
I know, right?
@mahdiyussuf98042 жыл бұрын
Keep the vids coming Aaron! My most fav guitar vids on YT
@sheldonkorpett17082 жыл бұрын
Keeping making these videos.
@ReinerCritides2 жыл бұрын
Lets hear a tele straightened out, with the low e moved closer to the bridge
@jamesmurry59102 жыл бұрын
Like the taped fingers! Lol Beyond awesome
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
Ha! Back in those days there were fewer grownup obligations and way more time to practice!
@Zakkrifice2 жыл бұрын
I hear many many styles! Very versatile guitar!
@realoscaryarrito2 жыл бұрын
Great shoot out vid. I could hear a bit fuller sound with the slanted than with the straight. A few more mid and low end harmonics.
@MG-vo7is2 жыл бұрын
The angled pickup on tests #3 and #5 sounded sweeter.
@runabout762 жыл бұрын
Great video! IT was cool to hear the differences without any other variables. I need to know the story behind the guitars on the back wall... Different tops/paint stuff going on there is interesting.
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
Cool, aren't they? Those are the Warmoth Meadowhawk and Redshifter guitars. 40th Anniversary limited release. More details here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4C5YqdqedmrmaM and here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYW7qn-Kg6p7has There will be a few more released later this year.
@ranius73882 жыл бұрын
You can hear how the slanted pickup nakes the lows less tight and less bright which is part of the early brown sound.
@warmoth2 жыл бұрын
Totally. Yep.
@ibalrog2 жыл бұрын
Very cool video! I like reasonably scientific testing. Personally, the only difference I could hear was due to palm muting changes in test #5.
@MrJsteed2009 Жыл бұрын
I pick up additional harmonics from the Angled Humbucker. I just heard a recording of VH’s Panama with Eddie’s playing isolated. He has so many harmonics, feedback, chorus, echo and squealing going on that I think the Angled Humbucker really contributed to his tone. Interesting!
@Okla_Soft2 жыл бұрын
Dude, Aaron, thanks for doing this video. On my first build, I went with a single bridge humbucker rout but didn’t realize what I was doing fully, so I threw a normal Duncan SH-5 in the bridge position at a straight angle. I realized that I needed a Trembucker the 2nd time around when I built a sister to match the 1st one. I just love the recipe of a an Alder-bodied strat with a single bridge humbucker, roasted maple Gibson-scale neck, no 720 mod, string-through, tune-o-matic bridge and some HipShot open-gear tuners with 6100 Stainless steel frets. These Warmoth Strats are rock machines, truly great instruments. Thanks for all that you do, I did find this video highly informative and entertaining! One question, do you think it’s worth changing the Duncan SH-5 out for a trem-spaced version? It seems to sound good enough for me but I’m curious on your thoughts about using a humbucker without correct spacing?
@tbone786 Жыл бұрын
wow i need a angled humbucker
@dag4102 жыл бұрын
I can hear a difference. The angled pickup is less harsh. Very beefy!
@treyalexanderhaislip2 жыл бұрын
Very cool shootout! Seemed to be more noticeable to my ears when clean. Love these type of videos-thanks for sharing!
@Nightjar7262 жыл бұрын
I actually preferred the slant. Has a more single coil kinda sound. More nuance. Cool test
@Olsen-vp5vg2 жыл бұрын
Kinda reminds me of the tone of the middle position on a selector switch, but more bridge humbuckery.
@briandietrich13732 жыл бұрын
The slanted seems to be a smoother sound... I like it!
@angusorvid88402 жыл бұрын
I owned a number of super strats in the 80s, including some Barettas, with angled buckers, usually a JB, Duncan Distortion or Custom or Full Shred. At the time I thought there was something to the whole angle thing, but then I got a number of axes with straight mounted buckers and I could not tell a big difference. These days I don't slant my buckers but I do make sure to get Trembucker spacing if they are Duncans or F-Spaced for DiMarzio, and these days it's all Duncans, often the JB, Full Shred or Screamin' Demon. In my experience angled buckers make a bigger difference with medium to low output pups.
@lordgraga2 жыл бұрын
Angling the strings seems like it it gives a slightly lower output and "rounder" sound with less attack and bite. Sort of like lowering the humbucker, but without the less of bottom end.
@KahnuevsKrake2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a guitar where the bridge pickup is closer to the neck. I have a PRS SE Custom 22 and put a Vintage Bass in the neck position, and I only found out later it was meant for the Custom 24 because it was an extra warm pickup to compensate for the fact the neck pickup on a 24 fret guitar would be closer to the bridge. Love it in my Custom 22. So I got the same idea with the bridge humbucker because while I love high output pickups like the Gibson Dirty Fingers for palm muting, I do find the highs a tad harsh on a lot of them, so hopefully if it's slightly further from the bridge, it would round it off a bit.
@Timbo19692 жыл бұрын
Eddie did it so the humbucker would catch all the sound from the Floyd Rose bridge since the strings didn’t line up correctly. It was kind of a precursor to the Seymour Duncan Trembucker
@corneliuscrewe6772 жыл бұрын
I read exactly the same thing about EVH slanting Frankie’s pickup for spacing. I think it’s interesting that all the Wolfgangs never had slanted pickups, nor did the 5150 Kramer or the Ernie Balls. It did change the sound, but not enough that I’d need to have a slanted humbucker for any particular reason.