Re: What's wrong with this picture? Gibson? Content
Yup... there are tons of alder/maple superstrats and stuff around with EMGs in them and they're fine. Why would it sound like crap just because it's an alder/maple explorer? That doesn't even make sense. I'd be more inclined to suspect inconsistencies in pickup manufacture before blaming the wood.
EDITED TO ADD: This puts me in mind of a show I mixed a couple of years ago where the guitar player was using EMGs. He'd been using... I wanna say it was Charvels, and he bought a couple of new EMG loaded ESPs. Identical pickups. He was all excited about the new guitars and he was telling me before the show how much better they sounded than his old ones, because different body wood of course (I have no idea what either was made of). He did have one of the old ones there as a backup, and used it for half a set when he broke a string. Now I'm sitting here at the mixing desk, I have his tone EQed into the mix all nicey-nice, and once he switched guitars it was exactly the same. Here I am, listening very critically because it's my job, and I can't hear a PARTICLE of difference when he changes. Then he bounces off the stage and hes all like sorry I had to switch to that crappy-sounding old one hope it didn't mess up your mix too bad but didn't the ESP sound AWESOME?!
I'm like oh man do I tell him? Couldn't do it...
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EDITED TO ADD: This puts me in mind of a show I mixed a couple of years ago where the guitar player was using EMGs. He'd been using... I wanna say it was Charvels, and he bought a couple of new EMG loaded ESPs. Identical pickups. He was all excited about the new guitars and he was telling me before the show how much better they sounded than his old ones, because different body wood of course (I have no idea what either was made of). He did have one of the old ones there as a backup, and used it for half a set when he broke a string. Now I'm sitting here at the mixing desk, I have his tone EQed into the mix all nicey-nice, and once he switched guitars it was exactly the same. Here I am, listening very critically because it's my job, and I can't hear a PARTICLE of difference when he changes. Then he bounces off the stage and hes all like sorry I had to switch to that crappy-sounding old one hope it didn't mess up your mix too bad but didn't the ESP sound AWESOME?!
I'm like oh man do I tell him? Couldn't do it...
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