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I've got a Hybrid 59 in the bridge of my Les Paul. I want this Les Paul to cover a lot of ground tonally but for chugs, it's just a bit too flubby down the bottom end. I also keep trying to get a bit more "fizz" and attack out of it. Nickel Covers are required.
Overall the tone is great when not doing chugs and I like how the pickup behaves, but I am after something a bit tighter and more aggressive for a bridge pickup. I don't want to go completely balls-out and having enough dynamic range to clean up well is important to me.
Thinking of dropping in a classic Duncan Distortion? A JB? Or maybe a Custom 5? Thoughts?
EDIT:
I think it might help if I was a bit more specific about my guitar.
It's a big chunky Les Paul. Typical Mahogany\Maple woods, and pretty heavy. Overall, I'd describe the sound as pretty damn thick.
The Neck pickup (A2Pro) is basically spot on in this Les Paul. It's thick sounding, but real liquidy and it's got a nice bite to it. Love the dynamics and how it cleans up, and the best way I can describe it as smooth. I can almost BB King with it. REAL pretty and awesome for leads.
On Low\Medium Gain, I quite like the 59 Hybrid. The overall tone is pretty great, and doing a big upstroke with my Marshall on mid-gain gives off a suitable beefy AC\DC-ish kerraannngg which is very fun. I like the upper half of the response.
But as I increase the gain, the bottom end goes out of control. Instead of going "chug chug chug" it starts sorta going "blug blug blug". Also with my Marshall JVM on high gain, it gets super thuddy, but in a way that when recorded, you'll filter all that thuddyness out and just end up with a murky sorta bottom end. I'm tending to push up the treble\presence a bit as well to try to compensate for the slow\excess bass. That way I get a bit of extra attack. Also bumping up treble\presence always gives an illusion of more drive, which is good 'cos I'm often tempted to reach for an OD pedal to boost the chugs properly.
(Extra note: I'm not exactly playing Death metal here, but I do enjoy Thrashy vibes)
The bass is my main concern 'cos I reckon I can tweak the amp to get everything else I want to happen, but the bass I haven't been able to out-tweak.
...
See above!
I've got a Hybrid 59 in the bridge of my Les Paul. I want this Les Paul to cover a lot of ground tonally but for chugs, it's just a bit too flubby down the bottom end. I also keep trying to get a bit more "fizz" and attack out of it. Nickel Covers are required.
Overall the tone is great when not doing chugs and I like how the pickup behaves, but I am after something a bit tighter and more aggressive for a bridge pickup. I don't want to go completely balls-out and having enough dynamic range to clean up well is important to me.
Thinking of dropping in a classic Duncan Distortion? A JB? Or maybe a Custom 5? Thoughts?
EDIT:
I think it might help if I was a bit more specific about my guitar.
It's a big chunky Les Paul. Typical Mahogany\Maple woods, and pretty heavy. Overall, I'd describe the sound as pretty damn thick.
The Neck pickup (A2Pro) is basically spot on in this Les Paul. It's thick sounding, but real liquidy and it's got a nice bite to it. Love the dynamics and how it cleans up, and the best way I can describe it as smooth. I can almost BB King with it. REAL pretty and awesome for leads.
On Low\Medium Gain, I quite like the 59 Hybrid. The overall tone is pretty great, and doing a big upstroke with my Marshall on mid-gain gives off a suitable beefy AC\DC-ish kerraannngg which is very fun. I like the upper half of the response.
But as I increase the gain, the bottom end goes out of control. Instead of going "chug chug chug" it starts sorta going "blug blug blug". Also with my Marshall JVM on high gain, it gets super thuddy, but in a way that when recorded, you'll filter all that thuddyness out and just end up with a murky sorta bottom end. I'm tending to push up the treble\presence a bit as well to try to compensate for the slow\excess bass. That way I get a bit of extra attack. Also bumping up treble\presence always gives an illusion of more drive, which is good 'cos I'm often tempted to reach for an OD pedal to boost the chugs properly.
(Extra note: I'm not exactly playing Death metal here, but I do enjoy Thrashy vibes)
The bass is my main concern 'cos I reckon I can tweak the amp to get everything else I want to happen, but the bass I haven't been able to out-tweak.
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