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As you may have seen, i just went thru a whole thing here trying to replace the super D in my HSS strat and bought a dimarzio 36th that i just hated. Then as i mentioned, i decided to put this 59/C H i had in as i had a while back, but while at that time i really loved it in many ways, it has some issues that bothered me enough to rip it out and go back to the super D. But I thought the magnet wasn't the original because at some point while in the parts drawer i had robbed the A5 to try in something else, and when i tried it again later on i put what i thought was the original back in. Long story short, this morning i started to think i might be wrong and it was NOT the original mag and searched the parts drawer and found what i believe IS the stock mag due to some scribbling on it. So i put that in and replied here in that other thread to say what i did. I don;t know what that mag was, could have been anything as i have a bunch of them that the markings worse off of in the parts drawer.
But i just had to start this thread simply to say, damn this pickup is good !!! I mean really really good, or to be more precise, seriously the best HB i have ever tried. Not kidding here. Granted, i'm mainly a single coil man for at least the last 40 years, but in all that time i HAVE used a number of HB's. I never seemed to get along with duncans aside from a few years of JB use in a HSS in the 80's. But man has this given me a whole new respect for SD!
It's kinda hard to explain why this pickup is so good, but i'll try. First thing is the harmonic complexity. At times it almost sounds like theres some sort of modulation effect going on as the harmonics swirl all over the place. No other HB i've had did this to this degree. Then theres the sustain. Hold a note and this thing breaks into harmonic feedback at the drop of a hat with any decent amount of gain. Then theres that squishy feel and that transparent midrange. And clarity....wow. Notes jump out and you hear every one clearly, a HUGE benefit ! And maybe the hardest thing to accomplish with a pickup it does w/o breaking a sweat.....the ability to be so balanced in all respects that it doesn't sound fat, doesn't sound thin, doesn't sound bright, it just sounds perfect in that respect to where you never find yourself thinking it's got too little or too much of anything. The ability to have all the top you could ever want without sounding like theres ever too much or too thin etc is almost black magic. It's one of the things guitar players fight for constantly, and there it is in perfect form. It's actually amazing how good this pickup is. I'm kinda surprised i don't hear a lot more about it. It's so good in so many respects that are general consensus things like sustain and harmonics and all those things pretty much everyone wants that i would think it would be one of THE most popular HB's out there. I've owned hundreds of pickups and this is easily one of if not the best i ever had of any type. It's that amazing feel when you put a pickup in a guitar and instantly know it's not just good, but very special compared to 99% of the pickups you ever used to date. Of course, as crazy as this will sound after such a positive post, it still remains to be seen if it will stand the ultimate test....band mix. We shall see next week.
But i just had to start this thread simply to say, damn this pickup is good !!! I mean really really good, or to be more precise, seriously the best HB i have ever tried. Not kidding here. Granted, i'm mainly a single coil man for at least the last 40 years, but in all that time i HAVE used a number of HB's. I never seemed to get along with duncans aside from a few years of JB use in a HSS in the 80's. But man has this given me a whole new respect for SD!
It's kinda hard to explain why this pickup is so good, but i'll try. First thing is the harmonic complexity. At times it almost sounds like theres some sort of modulation effect going on as the harmonics swirl all over the place. No other HB i've had did this to this degree. Then theres the sustain. Hold a note and this thing breaks into harmonic feedback at the drop of a hat with any decent amount of gain. Then theres that squishy feel and that transparent midrange. And clarity....wow. Notes jump out and you hear every one clearly, a HUGE benefit ! And maybe the hardest thing to accomplish with a pickup it does w/o breaking a sweat.....the ability to be so balanced in all respects that it doesn't sound fat, doesn't sound thin, doesn't sound bright, it just sounds perfect in that respect to where you never find yourself thinking it's got too little or too much of anything. The ability to have all the top you could ever want without sounding like theres ever too much or too thin etc is almost black magic. It's one of the things guitar players fight for constantly, and there it is in perfect form. It's actually amazing how good this pickup is. I'm kinda surprised i don't hear a lot more about it. It's so good in so many respects that are general consensus things like sustain and harmonics and all those things pretty much everyone wants that i would think it would be one of THE most popular HB's out there. I've owned hundreds of pickups and this is easily one of if not the best i ever had of any type. It's that amazing feel when you put a pickup in a guitar and instantly know it's not just good, but very special compared to 99% of the pickups you ever used to date. Of course, as crazy as this will sound after such a positive post, it still remains to be seen if it will stand the ultimate test....band mix. We shall see next week.
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