L 705 Pickup??

[Waisznor]

Please help me by my decision:
I play an Emmons D10 P/P (late model Nr. 6639) with Emmons single coil PUs through an Webb-Amp (settings B 3-5, M 6-7, H 2). Usually I´m satisfied with my sound. But sometimes if I have to play real loud on stage, strings 1-4 sounding a little bit too sharp and thin to me. My favorite steel-sound should be very transparent with less bass.
My questions:
- Should I change the single coil PU with a L 705 I have?
- Is it difficult to replace the single coil PU with the L 705?
Thanks
Horst Waisznor

[Herb Steiner]

Well Horst, here's my experience. Back in the early 80's I felt dissatisfied with the output of the pickups in my 1970 Sho-Bud Professional and replaced them with Lawrence 705's that I got from Jimmy Day and he swore by. No doubt the guitar was louder, fatter-sounding, and with less hum.

One big problem: it didn't sound like my Sho-Bud anymore. It sounded like a generic steel guitar. When I put the SB single coils back in, the Sho-Bud sound returned.

That was my experience with an early set of 705's. If the pickups were the original equipment and that was the only sound I'd ever had in my head, I might not have been spoiled by the ShoBud single coil sound.

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[Stephen Gambrell]

I just took the 705 off theE9 neck of my LeGrande, and put the single coil back on. It hums, but it sounds like an EMMONS. Worth the trade-off, I think.

[Dennis Detweiler]

Hi Horst and Susi! ....I was impressed with your tone and technique while listening to you in your music room. I've never played through a Webb, but with only 3 tone knobs, possibly an eq would fine tune the club situation? If you can find a good rack mount eq, I'm almost certain you could tweek it slightly without having to stand up from your guitar as the volume of the club increases. I'm very satisfied with the old model Furman PQ-3 that I've been using for several years.
Might try mellowing it slightly by adjusting the pickup down/away from the the strings a little more? Which speaker is in the Webb?
I hope the gig situation picks up for you around Berlin. I enjoyed listening to you at your home. With your talent, you should be playing more. See what happens when the American honky tonk soldiers leave!
Wish we lived closer.
Dennis

[Bob Snelgrove]

I put 705's on my '78 P/P and immediately took them off.

I have them on my '86 Franklin and you'd have to pry them off of my cold dead hands

Bobbe Seymore has then on his P/P and says the tone is in the guitar, not the PU's (I disagree)

Try it, you can always switch back.

bob

[Waisznor]

Thankyou Herb, Stephen and Bob. I´ll follow your experiences and stick with my single coils!

Dennis my friend, your advice adjusting the pickups down is the solution for my problem. Month ago I read on the website "Ask Buddy" BE adjusting his single coils with the height of one Quarter (25 Cent). So I did it with my PU´s. Today I adjusted the PU´s down to the height of two Quarters with a good result. My Webb-Amp has a JBL E 130/4 Ohm speaker, with a very bright sound. With my other Palmer-Tubeamp and EV 15L speaker (you played it at my home) I don´t have those problems. By the way, I´ve heard many good assesments about the Furmann PQ-3; but I have EQs in both amps.

Thanks again to all...
Horst

[Lynn Kasdorf]

I know it is probably sacrilege, but I vastly prefer the sound of my Lashley LeGrande since it swapped the original pickups with George-L's (which I had bought a couple years ago and never installed).

Now, I don't think I would do this to my old Sho-Bud pro-III however. That guitar is just too cool as it is!

I put them in and I now much prefer the sound of this guitar over my other LeGrande. The c6 neck was especially lame- it just didn't cut in a live setting, and was pretty dead sounding- like the strings were old (even when new). A George-L PF model helped significantly.

I'm curious about Lawrence pickups for the other LeGrande.

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