Greetings and I hope all is well with everybody. I have a 2019 Epiphone SG Pro that I love playing but would like to try some different pickups. I'm also an older guy (turned 68 last month!) and I play at church. My guitar goes through a Line 6 Pod Go that I bought in January of this year. Great unit! Easy on the back! The tones I use are generally clean with a mild breakup and overdriven tones. Once in a while I'll use a Marshall flavored sound.
My biggest complaint with all dual humbucking equipt guitars is the neck pickup. There's always this element of low end boom/drone that I can't get rid of. I even tried Seymour's suggestion of wiring in a .047 cap at the toggle switch on my guitar and the effect was very marginal. I've also tried every imaginable adjustment to the pickup itself. Seems like the boom is so much that it overpowers the bridge pickup making it sound thin when compared to the neck pickup. Then of course when I lower the pickup enough to get rid of the boom I have no clarity. Sounds like there's a blanket in front of everything.
Offhand I'm looking at the Seth Lover neck model because of it's low output, which I believe was somewhere around 7.2 or 7.4. I'd like to hear some feedback from those who use this pickup. It I did go with the Seth Lover neck model I'm not sure which bridge pickup would be best. I tend to think the Seth Lover bridge model may be to bright for my particular guitar and may not have enough "umph." Again, I don't want a neck pickup that overpowers the bridge pickup. So I'm open to suggestions.
I was also checking out the Saturday Night Special pickup set. The slightly overwound bridge and the under wound neck pickups may be what I'm looking for with my guitar. Sounds pretty good going by the clips I've been hearing. I'd like to get some feedback from those who use this set as well.
Any and all suggestions are more than welcome.
Thanks in advance and have a good day.
My biggest complaint with all dual humbucking equipt guitars is the neck pickup. There's always this element of low end boom/drone that I can't get rid of. I even tried Seymour's suggestion of wiring in a .047 cap at the toggle switch on my guitar and the effect was very marginal. I've also tried every imaginable adjustment to the pickup itself. Seems like the boom is so much that it overpowers the bridge pickup making it sound thin when compared to the neck pickup. Then of course when I lower the pickup enough to get rid of the boom I have no clarity. Sounds like there's a blanket in front of everything.
Offhand I'm looking at the Seth Lover neck model because of it's low output, which I believe was somewhere around 7.2 or 7.4. I'd like to hear some feedback from those who use this pickup. It I did go with the Seth Lover neck model I'm not sure which bridge pickup would be best. I tend to think the Seth Lover bridge model may be to bright for my particular guitar and may not have enough "umph." Again, I don't want a neck pickup that overpowers the bridge pickup. So I'm open to suggestions.
I was also checking out the Saturday Night Special pickup set. The slightly overwound bridge and the under wound neck pickups may be what I'm looking for with my guitar. Sounds pretty good going by the clips I've been hearing. I'd like to get some feedback from those who use this set as well.
Any and all suggestions are more than welcome.
Thanks in advance and have a good day.
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