SoundAt11
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This is one combo that I've never seen before, but I had both pickups laying around and thought "makes sense".
This is a great set! I loaded them up in my main guitar (mahogany body, set maple/ebony neck, string-thru and tune-o-matic bridge) and was really impressed. One other thing: I flattened the magnets on the Stag Mag!
On paper, they make a lot of sense: the A2PRO is a Jazz with an Alnico 2 magnet. The Stag Mag is wound to the same resistance as the JB, but with the Alnico II rods, so it's almost a unique twist on the classic Jazz/JB setup.
The neck pickup has the familiar soft A2Pro sound with the flutey midrange and the Stag Mag in the bridge is a lot of fun. Volume-wise, they are pretty balanced (the Stag Mag is around 16k, but it's not really that "loud" of a pickup). The in-between tone is pretty usable when you back off the volume. It has a nice bright, slightly hollow tone that makes for clean and chimey chords.
For people that haven't tried the Stag Mag before, it's a really versatile pickup. As a humbucker, it isn't a thin as single coil (obviously), but it still has some of the cluck and hollowness of a single coil when you back off the volume or overdrive. Crank it up, though, and it'll get pretty mean and is defintely sounds like a proper humbucker. It's too soft and loose in the bass to get any tight chunk for modern metal, but for Van Halen, GNR, or really any classic rock, indy rock, 90's rock, etc, this thing is golden. It's a pretty balanced pickup: bass isn't too loud or too week, mids don't sound too thin or too honky, and it has plenty of highs, but they're not harsh at all.
The big shocker was the clarity: the Stag Mag will really show off your mistakes. Every flaw that you hide behind a hot humbucker and a overdriven amp will be very obvious. If you've got really good technique, though, just like with a single-coil, it will really show it off.
This is a great set! I loaded them up in my main guitar (mahogany body, set maple/ebony neck, string-thru and tune-o-matic bridge) and was really impressed. One other thing: I flattened the magnets on the Stag Mag!
On paper, they make a lot of sense: the A2PRO is a Jazz with an Alnico 2 magnet. The Stag Mag is wound to the same resistance as the JB, but with the Alnico II rods, so it's almost a unique twist on the classic Jazz/JB setup.
The neck pickup has the familiar soft A2Pro sound with the flutey midrange and the Stag Mag in the bridge is a lot of fun. Volume-wise, they are pretty balanced (the Stag Mag is around 16k, but it's not really that "loud" of a pickup). The in-between tone is pretty usable when you back off the volume. It has a nice bright, slightly hollow tone that makes for clean and chimey chords.
For people that haven't tried the Stag Mag before, it's a really versatile pickup. As a humbucker, it isn't a thin as single coil (obviously), but it still has some of the cluck and hollowness of a single coil when you back off the volume or overdrive. Crank it up, though, and it'll get pretty mean and is defintely sounds like a proper humbucker. It's too soft and loose in the bass to get any tight chunk for modern metal, but for Van Halen, GNR, or really any classic rock, indy rock, 90's rock, etc, this thing is golden. It's a pretty balanced pickup: bass isn't too loud or too week, mids don't sound too thin or too honky, and it has plenty of highs, but they're not harsh at all.
The big shocker was the clarity: the Stag Mag will really show off your mistakes. Every flaw that you hide behind a hot humbucker and a overdriven amp will be very obvious. If you've got really good technique, though, just like with a single-coil, it will really show it off.
