Gibson R7 Creamery pickup cover test: covers off, covers on!!!

So, after doing a comparison video between my 2010 Gibson R7 with Creamery '59 PAF pickups with and without the covers, which I thought actually showed a marked difference in the sound, I now do the reverse!

I bought Area '59 aged PAF covers from Crazyparts in Germany which look really good and also some aged hardware and fitted a new stoptail with studs, an aged ABR-1 and thumbwheels.

I recorded some passages with the uncovered Creamery '59s, then loosened the strings off, took the pickups out of the body loosely and soldered the covers on, then out the strings back on again and re-recorded the same sort of stuff.

The amp is a Carr Skylark and was set just to saturation with the inbuilt attenuator on but nothing changed at all between the covers off and on. It only took about 30 minutes and most of that was persuading the solder to bridge the gap between baseplate and cover.

I think I noticed what happened. It's definitely different, so see if you can tell. Use good speakers or headphones.

Here's a rundown of points of interest:

00:00 Intro
00:06 Covers off bridge pickup volume backed off
00:50 Covers off bridge pickup
01:22 Covers off both pickups
02:00 Covers off neck pickup
02:20 Covers off single note line neck pickup
02:29 Covers off single note line both
02:36 Covers off single note line bridge pickup
03:17 Covers off arpeggio phrase bridge pickup
04:00 Covers off arpeggio phrase both
04:16 Covers off arpeggio phrase neck pickup
04:47 Covers off chord phrase neck pickup
05:06 Covers off chord phrase both
05:23 Covers off chord phrase bridge pickup
05:51 Covers off strum bridge
05:59 Covers off strum both
06:05 Covers off strum neck pickup
06:13 Covers off bending neck pickup
06:26 Covers off bending both
06:41 Covers off bending bridge pickup
07:00 Covers on bridge pickup volume backed off
07:35 Covers on bridge pickup
08:07 Covers on both pickups
08:54 Covers on neck pickup
09:24 Covers on single note line neck pickup
09:36 Covers on single note line both
09:44 Covers on single note line bridge pickup
10:04 Covers on arpeggio phrase bridge pickup
10:34 Covers on arpeggio phrase both
11:03 Covers on arpeggio phrase neck pickup
11:54 Covers on chord phrase neck pickup
12:20 Covers on chord phrase both
12:49 Covers on chord phrase bridge pickup
13:16 Covers on bending bridge pickup
13:21 Covers on bending both
13:33 Covers on bending neck pickup
13:49 Covers on strum neck pickup
13:54 Covers on strum both
13:59 Covers on strum bridge pickup

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