Antiquities with gain...

[SFW]

I'm always seeing videos of Antiquities playing blues or clean stuff. Figured I should throw some rock tones in the youtube mix. I am highly impressed with how well these pickups hand gain.

 

[Ayrton]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

I have no problems with the Ants into a Marshall with or without a boost.

 

[YeRedHouseOverYonder]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

Great playing man. I personally liked the Ant. bridge better with an A4 and UOA5. They handled gain pretty well too. I should've tried a full strength A2. I'm assuming your set is stock?

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[CaptainWhizz]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vvx5VtGQmKo

The rhythm guitarist uses an Antiquity bridge in a stoner/ groove setting.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

Great playing man. I personally liked the Ant. bridge better with an A4 and UOA5. They handled gain pretty well too. I should've tried a full strength A2. I'm assuming your set is stock?

There's some us here that can't gel with the stock aged A2. A fully charged A2 or UOA5 would be a better choice.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

for a certain sound (think old allman brothers) the aged a2 is just fantastic. guitar->cable->amp turned up = money. it isnt as versatile as the full strength a2 though. i tried a rough uoa5 in there and put the aged a2 back in, lost the magic mids that a2 gives me and the high end had that a5 thing i dont usually like in buckers but thats just me. i have a ton of a4 magnets laying around and keep thinkin of putting one in but im too much of an a2 junkie when it comes to buckers

 

[hamerfan]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

This comparison shows different mags in the same humbucker and includes a dunaged Ant A2 mag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iL8eWtF-YU

You seems to loose some texture with higher gain on the the degaussed Ant mags, me thinks.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

I think, though, any amount of gain higher than modded Marshall sound sort of loses what the Antiquities do well. But when you get up to highly compressed preamp distortion the differences between pickups gets smaller, anyway.

 

[SFW]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

Yes, they are a stock set. I find the stock magnets to be just fine for what I'm doing.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Antiquities with gain...

Is there a link in the OP? I'm not seeing it.