Hi all!
I ve been visiting this forum for years but this is my first post
I have a MIM Fat Strat since 2000 when I was 17 and since about 2004 it has a Little 59 on the neck position and a JB in the bridge position. I love those pickups - my only complain would be that the 59 is a tad more bassy than i d like it to be.
I recently bought a 2019 Fender American Professional HSS Strat (v-mod single coils, Shawbucker 2) with maple neck and alder body in 3 Tone Sunburst. The guitar is very good but the v-mods get too treble-y with gain. The shawbucker is OK I guess but nothing to write home about. So I am about to change the neck (with a single-coil sized humbucker) and bridge pickups so as to have a HSH configuration. And for this I have a couple of questions, one of vanity and one of substance.
The vanity question is the following : For the bridge position, I will get either the Pearly Gates or the JB (SH-4) full-sized humbucker in Zebra. But I am not sure about which single-coil sized mini humbucker matches in colour the light-coloured part of the Zebra humbucker - is it closer to the Creme or Parchment colour of the SD single-coil sized humbuckers? And moreover, for anyone who happens to know, would the Parchment or Creme option of the single-coil sized humbucker be closer to the colour of the stock v-mods? I love the looks of my guitar and I would like to stay as close to that as possible.
The substance question is if you have any suggestions for a neck single-coil sized humbucker that is close to the 59 in character but with less bass. For the bridge position i am leaning towards the pearly gates - i m just afraid that it actually might be very close sound-wise to the stock Shawbucker which i did not like much (i don t know how to describe this, but let's say it lacked character) in which case I should go with the safe choice of the JB. Then again, i d like to have something different from my MIM Strat.
So between the Pearly Gates and JB options, what do you prefer and which neck single-coil sized mini humbucker would you pair it with?
My all time guitar favorite sound is that of Andi Latimer's (Camel) on Ice (not that I can match his playing, just saying):
Apologies for the long (and confusing) post, i d be grateful for some help. I have to order the pickups from Germany as they are not widely available in Greece and I cannot even check the colours. The photos do not help much unfortunately, at least they are not conclusive.
Thanks so much in advance!!
I ve been visiting this forum for years but this is my first post
I have a MIM Fat Strat since 2000 when I was 17 and since about 2004 it has a Little 59 on the neck position and a JB in the bridge position. I love those pickups - my only complain would be that the 59 is a tad more bassy than i d like it to be.
I recently bought a 2019 Fender American Professional HSS Strat (v-mod single coils, Shawbucker 2) with maple neck and alder body in 3 Tone Sunburst. The guitar is very good but the v-mods get too treble-y with gain. The shawbucker is OK I guess but nothing to write home about. So I am about to change the neck (with a single-coil sized humbucker) and bridge pickups so as to have a HSH configuration. And for this I have a couple of questions, one of vanity and one of substance.
The vanity question is the following : For the bridge position, I will get either the Pearly Gates or the JB (SH-4) full-sized humbucker in Zebra. But I am not sure about which single-coil sized mini humbucker matches in colour the light-coloured part of the Zebra humbucker - is it closer to the Creme or Parchment colour of the SD single-coil sized humbuckers? And moreover, for anyone who happens to know, would the Parchment or Creme option of the single-coil sized humbucker be closer to the colour of the stock v-mods? I love the looks of my guitar and I would like to stay as close to that as possible.
The substance question is if you have any suggestions for a neck single-coil sized humbucker that is close to the 59 in character but with less bass. For the bridge position i am leaning towards the pearly gates - i m just afraid that it actually might be very close sound-wise to the stock Shawbucker which i did not like much (i don t know how to describe this, but let's say it lacked character) in which case I should go with the safe choice of the JB. Then again, i d like to have something different from my MIM Strat.
So between the Pearly Gates and JB options, what do you prefer and which neck single-coil sized mini humbucker would you pair it with?
My all time guitar favorite sound is that of Andi Latimer's (Camel) on Ice (not that I can match his playing, just saying):
Apologies for the long (and confusing) post, i d be grateful for some help. I have to order the pickups from Germany as they are not widely available in Greece and I cannot even check the colours. The photos do not help much unfortunately, at least they are not conclusive.
Thanks so much in advance!!
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