Versatility? You played all Van Halen riffs on a pickup made for Eddy, all with distortion. No cleans, no tone button changes, no fingerpicking etc. I liked your playing, I liked the comparison between the pickups in an EVH distortion context.. but those 2 pickups do way more than you showed. Great personality, nice playing.. bad word choice.
I love how versatile it is!, you can definitely go from VH to VH seamlessly! 🤣🤣🤣 love your videos man! Thanks for putting all this great information up! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
"During the video I've seen a lot of changing, in the way yous feel about me, and in the way I feel about yous. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!" ~ Rocky Balboa
There was nothing versatile here. It was 5 Van Halen riffs, so that alone makes it not versatile. Then you add the fact that the 78 was designed to sound like Eddie's pickups, and the JB was not make it a ridiculous comparison with no versatility whatsoever. Maybe he should try 5 completely different songs and with different Amp settings, then maybe you'll both understand the definition.
I think that using VH riffs was the correct call, as I believe the 78 is a reference to 1978, the year Van Halen 1 came out. (I know, thank you captain obvious)
@@schmoemi3386 It is. It's basically a hot PAF. The JB is not going to be much different. Maybe slightly hotter. The Frankie pickup on the Wolfgang and Striped Series is ~15K the 78 is ~9k.
I'm hearing bigger low mids in the J.B. with a little more clarity in the '78. In and audience I might not pick that up. Having recently rekindled my romance with the DiMarzio Super Distortion, I have to insist you try one. I use it all the time.....in my Telecaster. Talk about versatility - not joking now, it makes that guitar do ANYTHING.
it's as if you turned the treble knob up a couple notches on the 78...so another way to get this tone I guess would be a higher pot value like from 500K to 1 meg...or an eq pedal or treble boost, or just a few notches of the treble on the amp ....
SUHR thornebucker Pete Thorn signature model. = bar none. The 78 is the correct direction for sure and is great also. Also another really great one is made by Pariah pickups. You'll find it.
I mean the most versatile comparison between these two versatile pickups ever! Literally and verserally! Nice job, I’ll be ordering 6 of each to make sure I get the most versatile range of the both JBs and the 78s for extreme, maximum versatility!
Awesome! 😂 And even awesomer since I'm desperately waiting for my 7/8 S-Style order to be finished, that has a single '78 included and will have a Schaller Lockmeister and an EVH D-Tuna installed when it's here. So it's clearly inspired by the most versatilist guitar in human history, although I'm not playing a huge variety of styles. Thank you very much for all those videos! 😊
I have both the JB and I have a Duncan Distortion model. Great great pickups. I love them both but I was looking for something different and settled on a pickup that has Alnico III's. JB has Alnico V's and the 78 has Alnico II. For me, that's the ultimate way to know what kind of tone you're getting...look at the magnets used. The Duncan Distortion is Ceramic. Great Video!
I have a 78 (old custom shop one) in the bridge of my Charvel San Dimas and it sounds great for everything, clean to distorted. I used to have a coil split but the clean was so good I took it out.
Funny tongue in cheek video. I have the '78s in a Gibson Custom SG and I really like them. They sound very punchy and full, yet clear. I know they were inspired by Eddie Van Halen's pickup, but I hope folks know you don't have to just use the '78s for Van Halen stuff. They certainly do that well, but they work really well for lots of styles.
The '78 sounds great. Sounds like an EVH WG pickup or close to the Frankenstein pickup. The JB is a classic and you can't go wrong with a JB...but in this case I like the '78 better.
I'd add a single coil in the middle - HSH & a 5-way & a P/P Tone pot for 7 way switching. That would be more versatile. BTW I have both JB/Jazz & 78 set. Both work well.
As the owner of both a vintage (1987) JB and a newish 2021 '78 HB, my experience is that the JB really pushes the amp and the '78 works with the amp. The sound differences are subtle in the samples here but very noticeable when playing the different pickups through the same amp/settings. If you need your stock JCM800 to move into the super-saturated '80's tone zone, the JB is the way to go. If you're looking for a PUP that works great with a lot of amps, check out the '78.
The '78 only works right in an ash body where the wood was harvested in 1978 and was routed on July 8th. I mean everyone realizes that right? I guess that wouldn't be very versatile than, well, yeah, still.
All Joking aside it was good to hear the difference. But there was one flaw in the comparison. It seems that the amp gain wasn’t changed. I set up an amp for the guitar I’m plugging into it. The 78 has less output so you might wan’t to increase the amp gain a bit to where it sounds similar to the gain with the JB or just set them both where you think each sounds best.
At first I hated the jb, then I did a nice upgrade, 50’s wiring, Duncan pots, vintage sozo cap. This thing sounds awesome. Ohms at 18.4 which is high but it shreds
I tried the Arcane MR Scary pickup (it's their 13 just with a logo) and I wasn't that impressed. The I've had the Screamin' Demon and while it's different, It felt flat in tone a bit. Low volume room playing is not it's thing, and running it loud, the treble can cut you. Then I happen to buy an ESP MIII with the 78 in it. Man I fell in love. It has this singing quality, It's hard to describe. It just rings forever after you hit a power chord. Full bodied... it's now my fave pickup. I tried the pearly gates too, but it's not as full as the 78. It's as if it's almost got too much string separation...If that makes sense. I'm going to be pulling the Arcane and trying a JB, as I've never owned a JB, but unless something miraculous happens with the JB, I'll probably stick the 78 back in the ESP. Oh yea, that 78 kicks ass not only in that ESP, but same performance in these Chinese made Dean Michael Angelo Batio guitars which I hot rod for fun, as a cheap alternative. (their 15-inch radius necks are awesome for a cheap guitar, great playability, they're actually not bad for cheap guitars) No matter what that 78 goes into, it delivers. A good distortion and digital delay never hurt..lol What's funny is George Lynch recently did a post about his ESP Kamikaze Desert eagle LTD and highlighted how baddass the Duncan 78 that was in it. It's on the ESP website and he shows off the pickup and it sounds KILLER.
i recommend the seymour duncan stra bro 90 for maple board strats at the bridge. it's a p 90 in a single coil size, lots of low mids and bass great for distortion no fizz whatsoever. i also recommend adding a tele configuration so that the bridge and the neck pickups can work together. enjoy!
It’s crazy basically the first solid body electric guitar can basically cover it all, obviously he was joking in fact the Tele is possibly the most versatile guitar it can do the tele thing and the Strat thing especially Nashville Teles and they say a Les Paul is just a Tele on steroids. Leo got it right straight out of the gate really.
Great comparison! There are definitely some use cases for the thicker sound of the JB... a power trio where you need to fill some sonic space... if you mostly play lead lines like Beck did... if you want to beef up a thin sounding guitar. For an all-purpose guitar, though, I'd opt for the more focused sound of the 78.
I have a warmoth soloist body in the house soaking up Tung oil. Pickups will be Duncan RTM / Jazz. I truly feel that this will be versitilious maximus.
I would love to hear this pickup on something other than Van Halen to better ascertain its versitiveness. But what you’re playing sounds great and I dig your style.
I’ll wait until the Mo Maximus Versatilitus 81 version comes out. It’s supposed to be Versatiler but extra. I heard it’ll even go to 11 too and was raised free range.
Sound very good. best move I made was buying a Charvel without the Floyd style bridge. I can change tuning at will, without any hassle. I play the crap out of that guitar for some reason. I think it has a full shred in the bridge. I still love my guitar with the JB. The '78 is great sounding pickup.The body mounted pickups seem to do a thing as well. Fun video!
For combination in a HSS strat I prefer Humbuckers with lower impedance (59 or 78). I had a JB in the bridge position, but the loudness jump from sc to hb was always too drastic. Plus the JB sounds very middy, while 59-style humbuckers sound very transparent, a bit like a single coil, but not so shrill.
Exceptionally versatile. It has black and white coils too so you can use it for major and minor keys.
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Amazing
It allows you to play both kinds of music, Rock AND Roll! Now that's versataler.
Best comment ever! 😅
Bit racist...
Dang man, that telecaster comment with the hard stare was probably my favorite video moment of the past 5 years. Quality stuff.
Only way it coulda been better would be if he added that wood species has no affect on tone…..
Made me laugh 78 times harder than is typical from "stock" videos
Dude had to shart just then
Versatility? You played all Van Halen riffs on a pickup made for Eddy, all with distortion. No cleans, no tone button changes, no fingerpicking etc. I liked your playing, I liked the comparison between the pickups in an EVH distortion context.. but those 2 pickups do way more than you showed. Great personality, nice playing.. bad word choice.
@@kentmunn3441time for you to go back and watch Aaron’s running joke from the last 6 years about “versatility”.
Jimmy Page playing a telecaster has sold the most Les Pauls ever.
You are not joking!
You just won the internet award 🥇
About the same amount of Strats sold by David Gilmour playing a ‘55 Les Paul.
Informative. The 78 also makes it possible to play classic riffs at 78 RPM, but only in mono.
Awesome! I'm going to try this tonight!
the pause was him waiting for tele players to see themselves out
Giving us tele players a moment to type a flaming comment
@@elecrocityDon’t hurt yourself, old timer. Take your time. 😂
The versatility of Van Halen licks was very impressive. I prefer the JB. I've owned both. But I'm also a Telecaster player.
If you spin that pickup around you get an 87 perfect for hair metal and Satch and Vai. Making it an even more versatile pick up.
Mind. Blown.
If you install a JB backwards...😏
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We enjoy all kinds of music here. DLR Van Halen **and** SH Van Halen.
The jb seemed clearer with more low. The 78 was more nasal
I love how versatile it is!, you can definitely go from VH to VH seamlessly! 🤣🤣🤣 love your videos man! Thanks for putting all this great information up! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I love Tele’s, to the point that my dog is named Tele, but that comment and stare made me give this video a thumbs up.
"During the video I've seen a lot of changing, in the way yous feel about me, and in the way I feel about yous. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!" ~ Rocky Balboa
Dude! I love you named your dog Tele!
@@nevermorehollows yeah, I have a boy and a girl dog and they are siblings. Their names are Fender and Tele.
@@lewisbeeman love it!
Dude, funny. My dog is named Leo, yes, after the great Leo Fender. I keep a Mohawk on him with about 2” chin whiskers.
As a longtime follower of this series, I think this is the versatilest so far. Good work Aaron.
There was nothing versatile here. It was 5 Van Halen riffs, so that alone makes it not versatile. Then you add the fact that the 78 was designed to sound like Eddie's pickups, and the JB was not make it a ridiculous comparison with no versatility whatsoever. Maybe he should try 5 completely different songs and with different Amp settings, then maybe you'll both understand the definition.
@@BkBk-gy6vr tell me you’ve never watched an Aaron video before without saying you’ve never watched an Aaron video before. n00b
@gingataff I got the sarcasm, but regardless
The second Aaron mentioned versatility I knew Van Halen riffs were on their way 😂
I switched from a JB to a custom finally to a 78, couldn’t be happier with the 78
😂this just made my morning. Nearly did a spit take with my morning coffee. It may be the most versatilest pickup ever.
I think that using VH riffs was the correct call, as I believe the 78 is a reference to 1978, the year Van Halen 1 came out.
(I know, thank you captain obvious)
I think that's actually what SD wants this pickup to be: an EvH pickup...
@@schmoemi3386 It is. It's basically a hot PAF. The JB is not going to be much different. Maybe slightly hotter. The Frankie pickup on the Wolfgang and Striped Series is ~15K the 78 is ~9k.
Too bad the tone he chose to dial in was absolutely terrible. Not even close to Eddie
A 78 at the bridge and a 59 at the neck will give you 137 times more versalitility.
59 Bridge at neck...
I appreciate the demo. I liked the 78. This helps me out for future builds. 😊
The final minute is gold! Genius!
Very funny video Aaron! Loved it! Glad to see you guys have a sense of humor!
Awesome video , the commentary had me rolling on the floor😂
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I love your videos dedicated to searching for maximum versatility. Keep them coming!
The most versatilistererer I've everist seen. I want to rock and rollist the mostest with a versatiler guitar.
Dude! Your videos are awesome!! Keeps me coming back to Warmoth! Thanks for the great playing, great comparison and stellar humor!
Best video yet
Super versatile. It lets you play EVH or Evh
This video was hysterical! Loved it. Always good, informative, and entertaining. But this was next level.
Most important comparison on youtube, and the man is sooooo versatile!
The video I've been waiting for
I'm hearing bigger low mids in the J.B. with a little more clarity in the '78. In and audience I might not pick that up. Having recently rekindled my romance with the DiMarzio Super Distortion, I have to insist you try one. I use it all the time.....in my Telecaster. Talk about versatility - not joking now, it makes that guitar do ANYTHING.
I love the SD! It's a classic!
At 58, I'm starting to hear the mud out of the JB and the mid bump is limiting. Went back to the 14.8k Duncan Custom 🤘
The Duncan Custom...My favorite bridge humbucker for the music I play...love it!
I was really waiting for 78 consecutive VH riffs
Scooped mids for the win! 78 all the way.
I think they both sound GREAT!!!!
Man, what an absolute riff monster Ed was.
it's as if you turned the treble knob up a couple notches on the 78...so another way to get this tone I guess would be a higher pot value like from 500K to 1 meg...or an eq pedal or treble boost, or just a few notches of the treble on the amp ....
Telecaster shots fired! Yes!!!
Putting an Alnico 2 magnet into a JB is a super combo.
Love your humor! I immediately liked the 78.
Best video in youtube guitar ether. Aaron and Warmoth are the best!
SUHR thornebucker Pete Thorn signature model. = bar none. The 78 is the correct direction for sure and is great also. Also another really great one is made by Pariah pickups. You'll find it.
Throwin shade!!! 😂😂😂
recently swapped my JB magnet for an A2. really like the results
if you're not in the SD forum, just for info, that was one of the choices given to VH
I mean the most versatile comparison between these two versatile pickups ever! Literally and verserally! Nice job, I’ll be ordering 6 of each to make sure I get the most versatile range of the both JBs and the 78s for extreme, maximum versatility!
Awesome! 😂
And even awesomer since I'm desperately waiting for my 7/8 S-Style order to be finished, that has a single '78 included and will have a Schaller Lockmeister and an EVH D-Tuna installed when it's here. So it's clearly inspired by the most versatilist guitar in human history, although I'm not playing a huge variety of styles.
Thank you very much for all those videos! 😊
Gracias.....saludos respetuosos desde Puerto Rico y un abrazo.
I think the takeaway here is that Aaron is a pretty darn good guitarist.
I have both the JB and I have a Duncan Distortion model. Great great pickups. I love them both but I was looking for something different and settled on a pickup that has Alnico III's. JB has Alnico V's and the 78 has Alnico II. For me, that's the ultimate way to know what kind of tone you're getting...look at the magnets used. The Duncan Distortion is Ceramic. Great Video!
Made me literally LOL. Love it.
Versatile or more versatile. Versatiler is not a word brotha man
Needed that today!!! Thank you!!
Sarcastic, funny Aaron is our favorite Aaron!
Judging by the comments, many people don't understand sarcastic, funny Aaron. This makes sarcastic, funny Aaron sad.
This was a masterpiece. You are the Steve Carell/Michael Scott of the replacement guitar parts industry!
Ah, Christmas. It's the time of year when you can say "I love you this many dollar's worth." ~ Michael Scott
I have a 78 (old custom shop one) in the bridge of my Charvel San Dimas and it sounds great for everything, clean to distorted. I used to have a coil split but the clean was so good I took it out.
This might be my new favorite video on RUclips. 🤘🏻🫡
Speaking of versatilitler, I installed a set of these in my mini vasecto van and it turned it into a sports car! EVH never sounded better.
Omg. Hahahahahaha. How many tele's are triggered today? Love the videos!!! Please keep them coming!!
This video brought to you by Seymour Duncan!
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Ed was using a Dimarzio Super Distortion on much of the VH-1 album. Obviously not on "Runnin' With The Devil".
Funny tongue in cheek video. I have the '78s in a Gibson Custom SG and I really like them. They sound very punchy and full, yet clear. I know they were inspired by Eddie Van Halen's pickup, but I hope folks know you don't have to just use the '78s for Van Halen stuff. They certainly do that well, but they work really well for lots of styles.
Haha, love your videos .. trigger fishing is off the charts 😂 .. gave me a good laugh in the airport .. cheers from one Aaron to another 👍
Give the ‘59 Custom Hybrid a shot.
intro idle is hilarious
That’s a cool guitar build. Great video.
How does only playing Van Halen riffs demonstrate versatility???
both pickups rock. I have both in several guitars and they're amazing everyone should have both
The '78 sounds great. Sounds like an EVH WG pickup or close to the Frankenstein pickup. The JB is a classic and you can't go wrong with a JB...but in this case I like the '78 better.
Awesome versatility!
I'd add a single coil in the middle - HSH & a 5-way & a P/P Tone pot for 7 way switching. That would be more versatile. BTW I have both JB/Jazz & 78 set. Both work well.
As the owner of both a vintage (1987) JB and a newish 2021 '78 HB, my experience is that the JB really pushes the amp and the '78 works with the amp. The sound differences are subtle in the samples here but very noticeable when playing the different pickups through the same amp/settings. If you need your stock JCM800 to move into the super-saturated '80's tone zone, the JB is the way to go. If you're looking for a PUP that works great with a lot of amps, check out the '78.
The '78 only works right in an ash body where the wood was harvested in 1978 and was routed on July 8th. I mean everyone realizes that right? I guess that wouldn't be very versatile than, well, yeah, still.
Oh, I get it! You were joking about changing the volume bleed!
Ha...you got me! All the rest is true though. I swear.
I have been using JB pickups forever but I really like the 78 it sounds fantastic.
next video should be direct mounted vs. pickguard/ring mounted
All Joking aside it was good to hear the difference. But there was one flaw in the comparison. It seems that the amp gain wasn’t changed. I set up an amp for the guitar I’m plugging into it. The 78 has less output so you might wan’t to increase the amp gain a bit to where it sounds similar to the gain with the JB or just set them both where you think each sounds best.
You are 100% right, but I would never change anything in a shootout like this. OMG. Can you imagine the pearl clutching that would ensue?
Idk Im probably just going to have to own both for maximum versatility.
78 I'm sold 💯
59/Custom is another fun versatiliteile pickup.
The 78 can't do Eddie with a head cold. Point for JB.
At first I hated the jb, then I did a nice upgrade, 50’s wiring, Duncan pots, vintage sozo cap. This thing sounds awesome. Ohms at 18.4 which is high but it shreds
78 has a more mid-scooped sound to me....but then I took a shot of Jim Beam every time you mentioned some form of "versatile". 🙂
You should shootout the 78 with Custom Custom. CC is very Unchained style. Cheers. Very amusing vid. Great job.
I tried the Arcane MR Scary pickup (it's their 13 just with a logo) and I wasn't that impressed. The I've had the Screamin' Demon and while it's different, It felt flat in tone a bit. Low volume room playing is not it's thing, and running it loud, the treble can cut you. Then I happen to buy an ESP MIII with the 78 in it. Man I fell in love. It has this singing quality, It's hard to describe. It just rings forever after you hit a power chord. Full bodied... it's now my fave pickup.
I tried the pearly gates too, but it's not as full as the 78. It's as if it's almost got too much string separation...If that makes sense. I'm going to be pulling the Arcane and trying a JB, as I've never owned a JB, but unless something miraculous happens with the JB, I'll probably stick the 78 back in the ESP.
Oh yea, that 78 kicks ass not only in that ESP, but same performance in these Chinese made Dean Michael Angelo Batio guitars which I hot rod for fun, as a cheap alternative. (their 15-inch radius necks are awesome for a cheap guitar, great playability, they're actually not bad for cheap guitars) No matter what that 78 goes into, it delivers. A good distortion and digital delay never hurt..lol
What's funny is George Lynch recently did a post about his ESP Kamikaze Desert eagle LTD and highlighted how baddass the Duncan 78 that was in it. It's on the ESP website and he shows off the pickup and it sounds KILLER.
i recommend the seymour duncan stra bro 90 for maple board strats at the bridge. it's a p 90 in a single coil size, lots of low mids and bass great for distortion no fizz whatsoever.
i also recommend adding a tele configuration so that the bridge and the neck pickups can work together. enjoy!
The versatility to play only Van Halen songs! Wow.
And THAT is maximum versatility!!!!!
It’s crazy basically the first solid body electric guitar can basically cover it all, obviously he was joking in fact the Tele is possibly the most versatile guitar it can do the tele thing and the Strat thing especially Nashville Teles and they say a Les Paul is just a Tele on steroids. Leo got it right straight out of the gate really.
It has 78! permutations of ultimate maximum versatility.
Possibly they meant 1978? So maybe based on a Gibson T top pickup from the 70s?
Great comparison! There are definitely some use cases for the thicker sound of the JB... a power trio where you need to fill some sonic space... if you mostly play lead lines like Beck did... if you want to beef up a thin sounding guitar. For an all-purpose guitar, though, I'd opt for the more focused sound of the 78.
Ha! I love the little pause like "What? come at me Tele players!"😂
I have a warmoth soloist body in the house soaking up Tung oil. Pickups will be Duncan RTM / Jazz. I truly feel that this will be versitilious maximus.
I would love to hear this pickup on something other than Van Halen to better ascertain its versitiveness. But what you’re playing sounds great and I dig your style.
Talks about versatility but only plays VH riffs? 🤷♂ I'm confused what the word means now.
Hmmm. I didn't know this was to be a spoof. You really get a feel of how versatile a pickup is when using only a one tone band for examples.
I’ll wait until the Mo Maximus Versatilitus 81 version comes out. It’s supposed to be Versatiler but extra. I heard it’ll even go to 11 too and was raised free range.
Ultra-extra-maximum-free-range-verstilism? You have my attention.....
Extremely Versatile Humbucker indeed.
Sound very good. best move I made was buying a Charvel without the Floyd style bridge. I can change tuning at will, without any hassle. I play the crap out of that guitar for some reason. I think it has a full shred in the bridge. I still love my guitar with the JB. The '78 is great sounding pickup.The body mounted pickups seem to do a thing as well. Fun video!
Love this!!
This is the first of your videos that I've seen and it took me too long to be certain that you were joking.
For combination in a HSS strat I prefer Humbuckers with lower impedance (59 or 78). I had a JB in the bridge position, but the loudness jump from sc to hb was always too drastic. Plus the JB sounds very middy, while 59-style humbuckers sound very transparent, a bit like a single coil, but not so shrill.
Informative test! The 78 has more top end. To my ears, it sounds better than the JB.