Alnico Pro 2 bridge - sounds a bit ‘messy’ with a bit of gain...

[beaubrummels]

An even easier mod is to put allen heads in the A2P. Thins and flattens out the mids.

 

[Top-L]

Try a Fred in bridge. Perfect.

 

[frankfalbo]

Glad to come here and see everyone pointing out the Alnico 2 characteristics in the bridge position. We know that A5 will make it a Jazz bridge, which I think is an underrated bridge pickup, or experiment with A4 (which I personally love in the Jazz/A2P bridge) and A6.

 

[Aceman]

Never tried a Jazz bridge. Jolly peaks highly of it. Not a fan of the Jazz neck for assorted personal reasons.

I still think A2P neck, 59 bridge is a killer pair.

 

[Leon Of Late]

The A2P neck has been a favorite of mine for years, but I do admit to struggling at times, in certain guitars, with the bridge model. Now that I am more well versed in setting pickup height and adjusting amps, I can make it work much more often. I do however like the Slash Bridge model quite a bit more honestly. It just has that extra something.

And if you like the A2P neck, you will love an A4 59n. I have a Custom Shop 59’n that I put ab A4 mag in, and it’s simply amazing.

 

[Condemned soul]

Since both DMZ pickups and A4 magnets have already been mentioned, has anyone spent any time with the PAF Master set. The neck has an A5 and the bridge has an A4. Besides the trouble of mixing manufacturers, it could work in this situation. In case anyone is interested, for future reference, Here is a link to the bridge pickup page:

https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/vintage-output/paf-master-bridge

 

[gsammo79]

I've got a doublethick A2 magnet I wanna stuff into my Sh2 Jazz bridge. This jazz bridge reads a little hot too (8.65k)

An Alnico 2 Pro bridge with extra output sounds like a pickup I'd probably dig

 

[Teleplayer]

And if you like the A2P neck, you will love an A4 59n. I have a Custom Shop 59’n that I put ab A4 mag in, and it’s simply amazing.

Did you try the APH-1n with an A4 magnet? I thought it would be more suitable for an A4 magnet than the 59n.

 

[Leon Of Late]

I actually have not, but that is on my list of things to do. I also think that will sound very, very good.

 

[donaldr]

Hey all,

I fitted a set of Alnico pro 2 Humbuckers to my prs se custom 22. The neck pickup sounds great, very happy with that. But the bridge, I’m really not sure...

With the guitar volume 7/8 or over, running into my overdrive pedal with some gain, the sound when playing solos using the bridge pickup is fine and quite impressive BUT when I play full chords with the same settings, its all a bit fizzy and messy sounding, and generally not very pleasant. Kind of splashy, hard to describe. I tried a few pedals that I’m very familiar with, and same issue! And tried other guitars through same pedals to make sure it’s not an issue with the amp or amp settings, it’s not the amp!

Has anyone else experienced this with the AP2 bridge?

Regards and TIA for any advice or insight,
Stavs

I read somewhere that PAF pickups often needed to have E/A (and sometime D) pole screws way down to remove the muddiness. I had the same problem with my Les Paul and '61 Burstbuckers, that fixed the muddiness.