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weepingminotaur
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Yeah, trying to understand what squish means in this context.
weepingminotaur
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I've always thought of "honk" as referring to nasally mids, which some like and others don't. The clip sounds great but I don't know what part of it sounds squishy, lol.
But woody with loose attack makes more sense to me. So you want a neck HB ranking of "squish", but you see squish as a positive thing. Got it!
But woody with loose attack makes more sense to me. So you want a neck HB ranking of "squish", but you see squish as a positive thing. Got it!
beaubrummels
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That clip just sounds like 'Woman Tone' to me. The amp and rolling the tone off can make that sound with lots of pickups in a Les Paul, as long as the pickup is also bright to start with (you can hear some bright snap to the tone through the darkened wooly EQ on it.). The 'squish' in that attack typically comes from a tube rectified amp, though an A2-based pickup might have some of that to it (but not all A2 pickups do - Pearly Gates are an exception, they are brighter and tighter than any other A2 based pickup.)
A 59n, PGn, APH-1, WLHn all could make that tone, with slightly different amp and guitar tone settings. A 59n/A4, PGn would be my first choices. WLHn or APH1n would be my second tier of choices.
A 59n, PGn, APH-1, WLHn all could make that tone, with slightly different amp and guitar tone settings. A 59n/A4, PGn would be my first choices. WLHn or APH1n would be my second tier of choices.
Demanic
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I have one of those in the neck of my Blackjack. Wired to a five way that splits it in the 4th position. I think that it sounds more vintage than the stock version. I put a polished A4 in mine, no cover. It's bright and powerful with slightly more mids and not as boomy in the low end.
The Blackjack has a lot of natural lows, so the stock 59n just overdid them.
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jafo
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“Tonal Viagra” is how I described it about a decade ago. I had a stock JazzN in a mahogany slab: it was floppy, weak, and shapeless, and the A4 stiffened it (albeit a bit too much; “tonal priapism,” perhaps?). These days, I prefer A3 for a little chime and a bit more off the bottom.
jafo
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re: my comment about an A2 Jazz N:
Hunh, no kidding? I could've sworn one of the Duncan reps wrote in the forum that it wasn't so... but that was a very long time ago. Cool.
Hunh, no kidding? I could've sworn one of the Duncan reps wrote in the forum that it wasn't so... but that was a very long time ago. Cool.
eclecticsynergy
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A2P and Jazz use the exact same coils; it's the JB vs Distortion that's been the subject of much debate.
Some firmly believe them to be identical winds, but insiders have said they aren't. Same DCR, but not the same wind pattern.
eclecticsynergy
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I think the OP is talking more about tightness.
Tightest to loosest I'd probably say: JazzN-Demon-59N-WLHn-PGn-A2Pn
Can't speak to the Sentient, never owned or even used one.
Tightest to loosest I'd probably say: JazzN-Demon-59N-WLHn-PGn-A2Pn
Can't speak to the Sentient, never owned or even used one.
Sentient could be on either side of the Jazz above. It is pretty tight.
El Dunco
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My Blackjack V came with one in the neck with a coil split and I haven’t touched it. The middle position with the coils split pairs it with the inner coil of whatever I put in the bridge which makes for beautiful cleans.
eclecticsynergy
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To those accustomed to singlecoils, any humbucker is going feel a bit squishy on the attack. Some less than others, of course.
It's because a in a humbucker the magnet is flat underneath the coils, so its field is weaker, wider and more diffuse.
Typical singles use vertical rod magnets; the mags are right near the strings and their field is both powerful and focused.
Such pickups sense a relatively narrow section of string compared to a humbucker's twin coils and dual rows of poles.
That gives the attack transient a more immediate character.
weepingminotaur
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I've heard the Sentient described as the middle ground between a Jazz and a 59, or as a Jazz with the fat trimmed off. The latter description resonates with my experience of the Sentient. It is extremely articulate.
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