OK soooo. Area 61's and Rio Grande Barbecue

[Punkavenger]

sound damn fine in a A5!

[specialk]

Glad to hear you found some good ones. I've heard good reports on the BBQ but have never tried one.

[BubbaVO]

That's another one of my favorites! The BBQ snarls....

[Punkavenger]

The Area 61 sounds especially fine ... sustain for days. Now I need one for the neck position.

Trem spacing doesn't affect sound whatsoever. I like the cream color ... breaks up the mother bucker look which I wasn't super fond of.

Barbecue sounds FAT.

Pain in the ass to install but I handled it. Needed longer screws and springs which no one sells in SB. And locking nuts for the Area 61 which took days to find.

A little grinding with the Dremel ( on the 61 ... no A5's were altered in this experiment in case returning to stock is a necessity) and Voila!

Sounded good stock but I wanted a beefier more LP sounding humbucker and the single coil noise was really bugging.

Thanks ZR!

[mathman]

No HFC Expert how to with pictures?

I have the 84 proto II I just bought. It sounds really good but I can't seem to stop the idea of trying new pups in it.

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[e-isle rock]

Have Area 61's in my Centaura. They sound really good. Didn't like them at first

then I finally got around to replacing the stock cap with a .022 and now all is well!

[ZR]

I'm glad you could put them to good use! Looks killer and I'm sure it sounds killer too!

I've been in the process of trading out pickups lately and I may have some Dimarzio virtual blues pickups that might do well in that neck position coming up soon...

Truthfully, I've never been a big fan of those guitars but yours looks awesome!

[G Man]

Good choice. I've got a BBQ in the bridge of my Phantom Custom and it sounds huge. Mine is paired with a babybucker in the neck, thanks to BCRGreg, and I couldn't be happier with the tonal possibilities of this guitar.