Howdy fellas,
Nowadays I am having lotsa fun playing with close friends. I think we are doing great music, but just for fun. Nothing serious. Anyway....
In this band as we are doing jazzy blues based stuff, I am using my 95LP standard loaded with antiquities, clean on my peavey classic 30. The best pickups I could come up with for this situation was the antiquities, because they are the clearest of the ones I own. I have an a4 magnet in the bridge ant and the stock dun-aged a2 in the neck.
Before you think of suggesting Jazz to me, I gotta say that I have tried my 59n; the same ant with a5's, a4's and a3's; an a2p again with a5's, a4's and a3's; timbucker neck (great pickup but not clear enough, sorta thick and woody); 2 gibson burstbucker I's; and an a5 loaded PGn. Did not give what I want.
Hence the question: Phat Cats for me?
I basically want what the ants are doing, I wanna keep the same overall tone but add noticable clarity to what I have. Indeed, the neck is where it is the most important. Don't get me wrong, ants are great clean. I am gonna keep them, and definitely use them elsewhere. Still at this stage I think they are not doing what I want them to.
For the bridge, I think I'd benefit from a more tele kinda bridge tone. More snap on the wound strings. But I am kinda afraid that the highs might jump over the edge.
So what do you say?
Best,
B
Nowadays I am having lotsa fun playing with close friends. I think we are doing great music, but just for fun. Nothing serious. Anyway....
In this band as we are doing jazzy blues based stuff, I am using my 95LP standard loaded with antiquities, clean on my peavey classic 30. The best pickups I could come up with for this situation was the antiquities, because they are the clearest of the ones I own. I have an a4 magnet in the bridge ant and the stock dun-aged a2 in the neck.
Before you think of suggesting Jazz to me, I gotta say that I have tried my 59n; the same ant with a5's, a4's and a3's; an a2p again with a5's, a4's and a3's; timbucker neck (great pickup but not clear enough, sorta thick and woody); 2 gibson burstbucker I's; and an a5 loaded PGn. Did not give what I want.
Hence the question: Phat Cats for me?
I basically want what the ants are doing, I wanna keep the same overall tone but add noticable clarity to what I have. Indeed, the neck is where it is the most important. Don't get me wrong, ants are great clean. I am gonna keep them, and definitely use them elsewhere. Still at this stage I think they are not doing what I want them to.
For the bridge, I think I'd benefit from a more tele kinda bridge tone. More snap on the wound strings. But I am kinda afraid that the highs might jump over the edge.
So what do you say?
Best,
B
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