Hi everyone!
Recently I've got a '86 SG Special with SH6 in a bridge, and it had some unpleasant shrilling tone in the high mids despite having an original 300K volume pot which i couldn't fix with amp EQ.
Besides it lacked low-end a bit, so I decided to fix both problems and swapped SH6 for Invader with 500K volume pot.
These annoying high mids have gone immediately, overall tone became much fuller, but I've got a new issue - wooly booming lows unsuitable for my style of playing.
Also now i have to turn up treble and tone knobs on my amp to max.
I tune to C# Standard with 11-54 strings and play mainly oldschool death metal, not too much technical. Since I've fallen in love with this guitar's playability and feel I'm going to try every available option to make it suitable for my purposes, instead of going with active pups.
What I've already tried and what didn't work enough:
Recently I've got a '86 SG Special with SH6 in a bridge, and it had some unpleasant shrilling tone in the high mids despite having an original 300K volume pot which i couldn't fix with amp EQ.
Besides it lacked low-end a bit, so I decided to fix both problems and swapped SH6 for Invader with 500K volume pot.
These annoying high mids have gone immediately, overall tone became much fuller, but I've got a new issue - wooly booming lows unsuitable for my style of playing.
Also now i have to turn up treble and tone knobs on my amp to max.
I tune to C# Standard with 11-54 strings and play mainly oldschool death metal, not too much technical. Since I've fallen in love with this guitar's playability and feel I'm going to try every available option to make it suitable for my purposes, instead of going with active pups.
What I've already tried and what didn't work enough:
- Adjusting pickup height. Now It's 3mm from top of pole piece to low E. 4 mm is better in terms of low-end tightness, but overall tone becomes dull and thin.
- Adjusting pole pieces. Tried to raise up pieces in one coil, in another coil, in both coils. Maybe I couldn't find good combination of poles and pickup heights, maybe ther low-end became a bit tighter but it didn't sound cool
- Tried dimarzio hex pole pieces which I've pulled out of Super D. The tone has completely changed and became clearer, but all the charachter of Invader have gone completely too, it became flat, less raw and i guess i could get more cool tones out of dimarzio Super D itself then out of this hybrid ))
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