JJ'S Guitar Pickups: Chef's Special HS Vintage

https://www.jjsguitarpickups.com
These little Charvel Pro-Mod HS HT's are few and far between, so when I spotted this one I couldn't resist. Caveat: It had hot pickups in it. They had to go and make way for something subtler, hopefully from the workbench of one Mr Ben Bailey of JJ's Pickups, Australia. I asked Ben to wind a Sovereign '59 with a coil split and a matching single coil for the neck, something of his '65 variety. Ben researched, wound and had these two delivered to me inside 48 hours which is incredible and I'm very grateful - but not surprised as he runs an incredibly efficient and top-shelf business. Anyway, here they are, and if you like them, Ben will wind some for you too. Rock on.

Because I know that people use different amp types, I've made a second video with Deluxe Rev. sims which can be seen at https://youtu.be/IKrJFyM4Yvo

Today's tools:

Guitar: 2015 Charvel Pro-Mod HT HS Specific Ocean with JJ's Chef's Special HS Vintage Set pickups (https://www.jjsguitarpickups.com).
Amp: Axe-FX III Turbo running Cygnus X-3 FW. 27.02. Marshall models.
Strings: Ernie Ball Paradigm 10-46
Pick: Signature Honey Pick https://www.honey-picks.com/collections/all/brett-kingman
Mic: Audix USA A231 - https://audixusa.com/products/a231/
Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - https://www.presonus.com
Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/2control/
Headphones: Audix A150 - https://audixusa.com/products/a150/
All Stands: Gravity Stands - https://www.gravitystands.com/en/
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB