Vintage Humbucker Tone Library: Ep 2 - Greco Screamin 1982 (Les Paul) tone test on Spark Amp

Episode 2: This time we’re looking at another entry level Japanese humbucker, the Greco Screamin 82.

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I’ve heard nothing but good things about this one, so I’m really keen to get into it. These Greco pickups were taken from a Greco Les Paul. A Greco RR55 Randy Rhoads.

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Episode Notes:
0:00
0:30 Intro
1:43 Greco Pickup History
3:06 Rules of the experiment
8:24 Tone Test
12:48 The Better Tone test (guest player Jim)

About Greco Scream'In 8s pickups

I really wanted to document the Screamin 82 back to back with the U1000 from last episode.

If you haven’t seen the first episode, make sure you check it out so you have a reference point against the Screamin.

As I mentioned in that first episode the goal of this series is to document the tones of some great vintage pickups.

I’ll be going right through a range of humbuckers, mostly the vintage Japanese PAF copies.

The Screamin 82 represents a new era for Greco pickups

The U1000 from last episode was an entry level pickup manufactured by Maxon.

These were found in Grecos right up to the Super Real era, where they made their last stand in the Super Power EG 500 etc

Then the Mint Collection arrives in 1982, signalling an end to the Maxon pickups.

Stay tuned next episode - we have the Burny VH-1 it'll be huge.

Links from the video

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Rob Hanson Channel:    / @theyetti1  

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Fujigen takes over manufacturing of pickups

And the U1000 disappears from the line up.

It’s replaced by the Screamin 82.

Much like the U1000 it replaced, the Screamin pickups utilised ceramic magnets

According the Japtone Site, resistance is around the 7.65k

Mine’s in line with that.

I scored this one from Brad at BB Guitars.

He’s always getting top shelf Greco Super Real and Mint collections through his store and had swapped out the screamins from his own RR55 with some Seymour Duncans.

iif you’re in the market for a good quality Greco Les Paul it’s definitely worth following BB Guitars on Facebook - link is below.

As I mentioned in the previous episode there are a lot of fakes popping up at the moment, especially the Dry 1982 and screamin 82

There’s no question around the matched pair of 82s I have. As I said before they were plucked from this beautiful 1984 RR55, Randy Rhoads.

At the higher end of the Randy Rhoads line up you’d find the Dry 1982 - not to be confused with the Dry Z.

I’ll get into that in a future episode when we run through the Dry 82.

Quick note on this pickup, it did come to me with the cover removed.

It was wax potted, so I’m expecting this tone test to get a bit loose.

Should be interesting to listen back against the u1000, which is still covered, but appears not to be wax potted - that pickup definitely got a bit unruly in places.

The plan is to re-pot these scremins at a later date, so if you want to hear the difference, let me know.

Last thing before we get into the test, I promised you that I was going to start branching out an inviting collaborations to see what these pickups sound like in other people’s rigs.

I’ve had a couple of conversations and can confirm that Rob Hanson has agreed to test some pickups for me in his rig.

If you’re watching this video, you’ve probably studied his videos on identifying Greco headstocks.