Greetings fellow gear nerds.
I tend to have eccentric tastes in genre - gear matchups. I play heavy music and enjoy P90s, A2 magnets and even dabbled in filtertrons.
I play mostly 80s and modern metal with some fusion / alty stuff like pink floyd, coheed and cambria and *cough*creed*cough* thrown in there.
Marshally and Boogie voiced stuff mostly at bedroom volumes using disortion pedals into a DSL1 clean. I never really drop below drop D, pretty much in E standard most of the time.
I recently picked up the Joe Bonamassa black beauty and while it sounds good stock, it's not quite right for me. There's this sponginess in the upper mid frequencies that's kinda bright but undefined. I can dial some out by rolling off the mids but it's just not quite there. I want something higher output that just gives back more when I hit the strings.
In my other black beauty I had a Parson's Street A2 Overwound. Basically a hot (9.5k) unpotted A2 and it was pretty stellar, but I wanted just a hair more output and wax potting, which brings me to the Custom Custom.
I've been listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLfR...=SeymourDuncan demo and while I know youtube videos and amazing players can be deceiving, I actually own a Custom and know how it sounds and feels to play. It's scooped in the mids and raunchy on both ends, it's good but not what I want right now. I want something more mid-forward. I also don't want to get into magnet swapping, I want to keep the custom as is in case I want it later.
I like the heavy chords with the A2 magnet because it has this soft top that's easy on the ears, but a low-mid growl that's still angry enough to sound mean. The leads sing very pleasantly and don't sound brittle like A5 sometimes can.
I do like my palm mutes tight, but if I ever get too itchy for tight metal I have a Boden with Fluence's in it I can pull out to chugga chugga.
Was thinking of pairing it with an APHN AII pro in the neck to keep a similar characteristic.
I know some people have recommended going A8 for "A2 on steroids" sound but I just don't hear it in the demos. A8 sounds kinda whiny to me.
I tend to have eccentric tastes in genre - gear matchups. I play heavy music and enjoy P90s, A2 magnets and even dabbled in filtertrons.
I play mostly 80s and modern metal with some fusion / alty stuff like pink floyd, coheed and cambria and *cough*creed*cough* thrown in there.
Marshally and Boogie voiced stuff mostly at bedroom volumes using disortion pedals into a DSL1 clean. I never really drop below drop D, pretty much in E standard most of the time.
I recently picked up the Joe Bonamassa black beauty and while it sounds good stock, it's not quite right for me. There's this sponginess in the upper mid frequencies that's kinda bright but undefined. I can dial some out by rolling off the mids but it's just not quite there. I want something higher output that just gives back more when I hit the strings.
In my other black beauty I had a Parson's Street A2 Overwound. Basically a hot (9.5k) unpotted A2 and it was pretty stellar, but I wanted just a hair more output and wax potting, which brings me to the Custom Custom.
I've been listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLfR...=SeymourDuncan demo and while I know youtube videos and amazing players can be deceiving, I actually own a Custom and know how it sounds and feels to play. It's scooped in the mids and raunchy on both ends, it's good but not what I want right now. I want something more mid-forward. I also don't want to get into magnet swapping, I want to keep the custom as is in case I want it later.
I like the heavy chords with the A2 magnet because it has this soft top that's easy on the ears, but a low-mid growl that's still angry enough to sound mean. The leads sing very pleasantly and don't sound brittle like A5 sometimes can.
I do like my palm mutes tight, but if I ever get too itchy for tight metal I have a Boden with Fluence's in it I can pull out to chugga chugga.
Was thinking of pairing it with an APHN AII pro in the neck to keep a similar characteristic.
I know some people have recommended going A8 for "A2 on steroids" sound but I just don't hear it in the demos. A8 sounds kinda whiny to me.
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