It's not a rant...
Here's the story, just about a year ago, I got made a new guitar, a star shaped maple body-maple neck and board. Such a great and balanced instrument, not bright or thin sounding at all...
My first choise, just to cure my George Lynch **** was the Seymour Duncan Distortion...
Damm it works great on this setup...and that distortion pickup can do about anything, I use a medium gain amp, a slightly modded 2204 with 6550s in std tuning....
You all know the drill...distortion is not a boutique pickup and has fizzy treble and cloudy mids...
So there starts the story of a numerous pickup changes throughout the previous year...bare knuckles, local boutiques and so on...
From pafs to hot pafs, from ultra high output to medium output and so on...
I spend more than 500$ to find something boutique...
Well guess what...dat 50$ SD Distortion is back in...and I am not willing to spend another dime on pickups...
Those boutique pickups tend to get very tone specific...you can get somebody's tone with easy but that's it...you can get a very organic paf, but won't push the front end of your amp...you can get a tighter and clearer pickup...but your tone can gt thin an tiny...
The SD classic line can be a bit of a "I ve heard that tone before" but DEFINATELY gives you room to work with your other stuff...
If something works, let it work...
Here's the story, just about a year ago, I got made a new guitar, a star shaped maple body-maple neck and board. Such a great and balanced instrument, not bright or thin sounding at all...
My first choise, just to cure my George Lynch **** was the Seymour Duncan Distortion...
Damm it works great on this setup...and that distortion pickup can do about anything, I use a medium gain amp, a slightly modded 2204 with 6550s in std tuning....
You all know the drill...distortion is not a boutique pickup and has fizzy treble and cloudy mids...
So there starts the story of a numerous pickup changes throughout the previous year...bare knuckles, local boutiques and so on...
From pafs to hot pafs, from ultra high output to medium output and so on...
I spend more than 500$ to find something boutique...
Well guess what...dat 50$ SD Distortion is back in...and I am not willing to spend another dime on pickups...
Those boutique pickups tend to get very tone specific...you can get somebody's tone with easy but that's it...you can get a very organic paf, but won't push the front end of your amp...you can get a tighter and clearer pickup...but your tone can gt thin an tiny...
The SD classic line can be a bit of a "I ve heard that tone before" but DEFINATELY gives you room to work with your other stuff...
If something works, let it work...
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