A Bridge humbucker to go with a Phat Cat neck?

[Lewguitar]

Re: A Bridge humbucker to go with a Phat Cat neck?

I think another alnico 2 pickup would be a good choice:

The Custom Custom is hard to beat...but if you want a lower output alnico 2 pickup maybe a Pearly Gates.

I'd go for a Custom Custom.



Lew

 

[foo3001]

Re: A Bridge humbucker to go with a Phat Cat neck?

I think another alnico 2 pickup would be a good choice:

The Custom Custom is hard to beat...but if you want a lower output alnico 2 pickup maybe a Pearly Gates.

I'd go for a Custom Custom

That´s what I´m about to settle with at the moment. The alder / maple tele is going to be pretty bright so the middyness of a CustomCustom will balance the highs nicely I hope.

And I doubt I´ll hardly use the bridge PU for clean stuff anyway so the mids don´t matter so much even though in a CC there´s a plenty. I think it´s good to have mids when overdriven, your playing cuts through better and it´s easier to control the dynamics.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: A Bridge humbucker to go with a Phat Cat neck?

That´s what I´m about to settle with at the moment. The alder / maple tele is going to be pretty bright so the middyness of a CustomCustom will balance the highs nicely I hope.

And I doubt I´ll hardly use the bridge PU for clean stuff anyway so the mids don´t matter so much even though in a CC there´s a plenty. I think it´s good to have mids when overdriven, your playing cuts through better and it´s easier to control the dynamics.

If the guitar is alder I think a CC would be a great choice.

Alder is a brighter wood than most people think it is.

Lew

 

[Tony_H]

Re: A Bridge humbucker to go with a Phat Cat neck?

Alder is a brighter wood than most people think it is.

Lew

So true! I have a Japanese Squier Strat and that thing's just PHAT. Then later I bought an alder body and maple neck and put the guitar together and it was SO BRIGHT - a totally different beast from the Squier. My parts Strat with the alder body sounded brighter with humbuckers than the Squier did with single-coils, so much so that it hurt the teeth, as Mr Santana once put it. Later I learned that the Japanese built some of their Strat bodies from basswood, which would explain the difference.

 

[foo3001]

Re: A Bridge humbucker to go with a Phat Cat neck?

If the guitar is alder I think a CC would be a great choice.

Alder is a brighter wood than most people think it is.

So what do you reckon, a Phat Cat and a CC in an alder / maple guitar, will it be ok and not too bright? I mean there´s still a possibility to change the woods the guitar is being made of.. I don´t want the guitar to be too bright, but I´d like it to have the attack and clarity of a maple neck. So I´m planning the pickups so that they will compensate the natural brightness. And I know I want the neck PU to be a p90.

So what it all comes down to is:

What do you think, is a PC / CC combo a good match with those woods?