Great for chords, flat for leads....whaaaa????

[Jack_TriPpEr]

I would bet that guitar is naturally slightly scooped in tone is what it is. probably slightly muted in the 1-2 khz area

I've read descriptions of basswood as a tonewood having dulled Highs and pronounced Low Mids, whereas what your describing is dulled Mids.

I had a basswood Ibanez RG that had the dulled highs/pronounced low Mids going on.

I eventually gave up on it after several pickup swaps.

I also tried using a graphic EQ pedal to compwnsate but it wasn't enough, at least for my ears.

[Adieu]

Is the Floyd a POS?


have you tried any pickups with pronounced mids, like maybe a JB?

Also, have you tried playing with string gauge?

[NegativeEase]

I've read descriptions of basswood as a tonewood having dulled Highs and pronounced Low Mids, whereas what your describing is dulled Mids.

I had a basswood Ibanez RG that had the dulled highs/pronounced low Mids going on.

I eventually gave up on it after several pickup swaps.

I also tried using a graphic EQ pedal to compwnsate but it wasn't enough, at least for my ears.

Yeah, worth a shot -sounds like you covered it.

Also, any description of a wood based on species is dubious except as a starting point anyways -as the density and grain of woods is so personal to so many factors, like how moist the season was, if it was grown in a riparian zone or not, adjacent tree cover and competition (forcing tree to shed limbs faster, fortify and grow tall faster) etc etc

I could argue that different species growing in the same place adjacent will be more tonally similar sometimes than the same species grown in 2 different places.

[DavidRavenMoon]

It’s probably the Floyd. How many springs do you have on it? Some of them suck the life out of guitars.


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[75lespaul]

Well, it's an Agile so the Floyd is probably very low dollar. The whole guitar only cost four and a half. I'm sure the electronics are crap as well. I do have some good electronics to put in it, although I need some caps, and I do have a JB in the old box so if I don't sell it, I may put in new electronics and the JB. I never did put the A8 magnet in the C5, but I've still got a few pickups I can try like the JB, a Super Distorion, a Super II, etc. It plays great, but it wouldn't be in my top 2 guitars. My best playing and hottest sounding believe it or not is my Jackson JS32T Rhoads which plays like a dream and just has "that" sound with a custom custom neck and C8 bridge. Then come my three Lesters, two gibbies and an epi. Then my Chibson SG which I've had for many, many years. The Agile has a feel of its own, and has a very nice quality to it, but if I had to sell it, it's not like I don't have others that could make me forget about it.