Metal Pickup Shootout between the Seymour Duncan Jupiter and the Bill Lawrence L500XL
A good friend of mine, Robert Kurtz, suggested that I try out both of these pickups respectively. In doing so, I thought why not also do some recordings of these pickups and do a little shootout between the two, seeing as they are both relatively similar in a lot of aspects.
This was recorded through my Kemper Profiler directly into my interface. The guitar used was an ESP LTD SD-2 in Eb. 10.5-48 strings with a low-medium action.
NO post eq or fuckery done, what you hear is what was recorded directly into my DAW. I also accounted for other variables by setting both pickups to the same height, along with recording both of these within the same day, so any possible variables that could have occurred via human error would be eliminated, if not limited to the highest possibility for a non-scientific comparison. Just some nerd in his bedroom doing this, so keep in mind this isn’t a super polished and glamorous demo.
In the cleans, I break it down between ‘No FX’ and ‘FX.’ Both are using the same profile, however on the ‘FX,’ I simply just have reverb, delay, chorus, and compression engaged. While I can understand this may mask the inherent sounds of each pickup, I thought it would be cool to add it because IME, when I use cleans, I typically have one, if not a combo of those effects simultaneously. I threw in the ‘No FX’ to give you an idea of what it would sound like on a dry clean sound.
Hope those of you who were searching for a comparison like this that didn’t center around PanterA/Dime (Absolutely no disrespect whatsoever to Saint Dime!) found it helpful or relevant for your own research/knowledge.
Anyways, take care guys!
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