heavier rock styles and fluid lead playing, I use the bridge pickup, which sounds very good, and with the switch we can make it brighter and more aggressive. After the first tests following the modifications, the guitar took on a whole new dimension. I’m very happy with the result and I highly recommend APG pickups. Mr. Andrzej is a very friendly person with extensive knowledge of both guitar tone and guitar construction, which means that you can learn a lot simply by talking to him. Highly recommended. Zdzisław Sołowiej
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setting. The power and knowledge of Andrzej. Hell yeah. Run to Poliakow as fast as you can. I wholeheartedly recommend it. Pastyl
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rned out so great that it eventually became a permanent part of the APG lineup. Then I routed a larger cavity at the bridge to fit a Dark Side. And honestly, it sounds absolutely beautiful. I’m very happy with the result. These are yet another set of pickups from APG in my guitars.
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ucker Vintage Neck, and it sounds great in every switch position. I’m absolutely thrilled with it.
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original Gibson pickups. As we all know, no two guitars are the same, because wood never grows in exactly the same way throughout its life. Even wood taken from the same tree trunk can have different acoustic properties. That is what still makes this work so fascinating — in reality, no luthier can know 100% what the final result will be, even though experience should give us the ability to get as close as possible. I can wholeheartedly recommend basically all APG pickups, but these are particularly well suited to Les Paul-style guitars, as I mentioned at the beginning. Have a nice sound!
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s perfectly in both solid-body and semi-hollow-body guitars. In semi-hollow instruments, however, I use 250kΩ pots to bring out that desirable “lower midrange” in the tone. The cleans are not overly compressed, which gives you greater clarity. What I mean here is the presence of the guitar in the mix, because many guitarists forget that when playing in a band, they should be one of the members who are not simply standing on stage as placeholders, but actually have a real impact on the overall sound and character of the band. When the Litza pickup is switched to parallel mode, you get a tone straight out of the rhythm & blues world, and it works extremely well alongside single-coils. And by “single-coils”, I also mean APG pickups in a humbucker-in-a-single-coil format. That way, you don’t lose that desirable “glass” in position 2 of the pickup selector. I should point out that for me, position 2 means the bridge and middle pickups together in a Stratocaster. I know it’s numbered the other way around in the USA, but hey — we live in Poland. 🙂 So... for anyone looking for an open-sounding pickup with the ability to switch between parallel and series modes, this is a great choice. Someone here in the reviews described it as being on a world-class level, and that is exactly how I see it. Of course, I’m not taking anything away from other pickup manufacturers — they have an impressive body of work as well — but what I value most is the fact that I can discuss a customer’s requirements directly with Andrzej. That gives us possibilities that other companies may not be able to offer. After all, before finding the pickup we really like — the one that sounds the way we expect in our particular guitar — we often have to buy several different models, install them, and then sell the unwanted pickups second-hand. We simply lose money in the process, because nobody is going to buy them back from us for the same price we paid. As a luthier with 25 years of experience, I recommend all APG pickups, among other things because we can discuss exactly what we want from a pickup directly with Andrzej. I would also add that in situations like this, it is important to tell Andrzej what kind of wood your guitar is made from and what kind of music it is intended for.
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