Re: Pearly Gates with an Alnico 5
I've got a set of PGs in a lp guitar.
Even though they've got covers on them I don't find the neck PG to be muddy or dark for a neck h/u. I mean, it's not single coil bright, but it's bright enough. I also use 500k pots all around so maybe that has something to do with it.
Sure, the PGb is bright for an A2 pickup, but it sounds good distorted. I've never thought of it as 'thin,' but then again I don't think my Jerry Donahue Tele bridge pickup with 500k volume and tone (ash tele and RW fretboard though) is thin. Bright? Perhaps, but that's what the tone control is for. I like being able to flick the toggle switch and get a dramatic change in tone, but maybe that's just me.
FWIW I would only try the neck with A5. The bridge is the brightest A2 bridge I've heard so putting something brighter in there (read: anything else) would be a risky proposition indeed.
I've got a set of PGs in a lp guitar.
Even though they've got covers on them I don't find the neck PG to be muddy or dark for a neck h/u. I mean, it's not single coil bright, but it's bright enough. I also use 500k pots all around so maybe that has something to do with it.
Sure, the PGb is bright for an A2 pickup, but it sounds good distorted. I've never thought of it as 'thin,' but then again I don't think my Jerry Donahue Tele bridge pickup with 500k volume and tone (ash tele and RW fretboard though) is thin. Bright? Perhaps, but that's what the tone control is for. I like being able to flick the toggle switch and get a dramatic change in tone, but maybe that's just me.
FWIW I would only try the neck with A5. The bridge is the brightest A2 bridge I've heard so putting something brighter in there (read: anything else) would be a risky proposition indeed.
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