I've got two guitars that sound very similarly acoustically - kinda mellow sounding. Both with compound radius maple necks with big frets, both with floating floyd bridges. They both have the same wiring - one volume, two tones, 250k pots. Both use a 22nF cap on the neck tone, and a 15nF cap on the mid tone. They both have a treble bleed (130k resistor in series with 1.2nF cap) on the volume. Wiring is traditional strat for both - neck tone, mid tone, and nothing on the bridge.
The biggest difference between the two is in the pickups, but they're pretty similar too:
- The good guitar has SSL-2 (6.5k), SSL-2 (6.5k), SSL-6 (13.3k) - sounds great for everything that I play
- The problem guitar has a D. Allen Echoes set - 5.8k, 5.8k, 12.5k - is way too bright with gain (either from the amp or pedals) in all positions, but sounds nice when totally clean. I can knock off some of the highs with the tone controls on the neck and middle, but it's like there's a hole in the lower mids.
I use and am happy with pretty much the same amp settings with a telecaster, 335, and the good strat. I don't mind if the problem guitar sounds different, but don't want to have to re-EQ everything when I pull it out.
So . . . what electronic changes should I do first to try to calm the problem guitar down?
The biggest difference between the two is in the pickups, but they're pretty similar too:
- The good guitar has SSL-2 (6.5k), SSL-2 (6.5k), SSL-6 (13.3k) - sounds great for everything that I play
- The problem guitar has a D. Allen Echoes set - 5.8k, 5.8k, 12.5k - is way too bright with gain (either from the amp or pedals) in all positions, but sounds nice when totally clean. I can knock off some of the highs with the tone controls on the neck and middle, but it's like there's a hole in the lower mids.
I use and am happy with pretty much the same amp settings with a telecaster, 335, and the good strat. I don't mind if the problem guitar sounds different, but don't want to have to re-EQ everything when I pull it out.
So . . . what electronic changes should I do first to try to calm the problem guitar down?
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