Une interview en 2021 laissé déjà présager cette et ces futures séries de micros :
With Brazilian rosewood off the table, the pachyderm in the parlour is always going to be the pickups. Granted, vintage Les Paul fans tend to obsess more than most over period details, but if you want your Les Paul to sound just like a vintage example, the pickups are by far the most important factor. We like the unpotted Custom Buckers and enjoy the tones they produce, but they don’t quite sound like authentic vintage PAFs – or indeed the best boutique replicas.
Given the high ticket prices of these guitars you might reasonably expect them to be fitted with the finest humbuckers known to humankind. We’ve always wanted to ask someone senior at Gibson if the company ever intends to make vintage-style PAFs again and, to his credit, Mat is remarkably forthcoming.
“We have the recipe book for PAFs and we’re keenly aware of what it takes, but when we put those components together along with the original magnet formula – which is unusual and not one that is frequently used – the resulting pickups didn’t sound like PAFs.
“Vintage PAFs are a lot darker and more midrange heavy than people think and if you loaded your guitar with a set of 1959 PAFs, most people probably wouldn’t prefer them. Gibson was sourcing Alnico IV in the late 1950s from a telephone company for humbuckers specifically, but we don’t know that much about the makeup of the magnets they got. For playing at home most people would prefer the sound of an alnico III pickup and not alnico IV.
“We should have owned the pickup market for Gibson-style pickups and we don’t. That’s an opportunity that we have been aware of all the time, but the time hasn’t been right. What I can say is that we are going to tell stories that have never been told, with never before seen blueprints and archives, and we will be making extremely historically accurate PAFs in the future.”
The darkness and midrange heaviness Mat describes are not characteristics we associate with the many original PAFs we have tried. But we’ll agree to differ and are excited by the prospect of Gibson finally getting around to making proper PAFs again.
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(Passage "pickup lines")
