I'm back to experimenting with my R7, which might one day have permanent pickups installed - haha! 
I'm hoping some of you can save my soldering iron some wear and tear.
A Jazz N in the neck position is perfect. The bridge has been a never-ending quest, with virtually all of the 50+ pup/mag combos I've tried (not exaggerating there) having extreme and obnoxious nasal, congested upper-mids.
Finally turned to A3 mags, usually not a good fit for a bridge pup. But a C3 has now given me hope: sweet attack, almost no upper-mid nastiness. Two problems: first, output is too low to match the neck, and fooling with the neck's height greatly reduces its woody PAF goodness. Second, the C3 has little low-end punch. I would like a bit more punch but don't need all that much.
I'm now pondering an A3 in the following pups:
Burstbucker 3 @ 9.35K DC
Classic '57 @ 9.08K DC
For reference, my Custom is exactly 14.1K DC.
With stock A2 mags, each of these Gibbys was plenty loud and fat but had that snorting upper-mid thing. With other mags these Gibbys (as with almost every pup I've tried) came out as follows:
A5 - kept upper-mid demon, added harsl highs.
A8 - hard, sledgehammer attack and still the upper-mid thing.
A4 - decent, cut the objectionable upper-mid components by half, but with a sterile-sounding "thud" on the attack
A2 - Fat and warm but the upper-mid bump is really noticeable.
So A3 seems to be the only ticket here, and a slightly louder & fatter C3 is the grail. Any idea how the output of my heavily-wound BB3 and 57 will compare to the C3? And how about the lows compared to the C3? I'll likely do the experiment regardless, but I'm curious about your opinions on this.
I'm hoping some of you can save my soldering iron some wear and tear.A Jazz N in the neck position is perfect. The bridge has been a never-ending quest, with virtually all of the 50+ pup/mag combos I've tried (not exaggerating there) having extreme and obnoxious nasal, congested upper-mids.
Finally turned to A3 mags, usually not a good fit for a bridge pup. But a C3 has now given me hope: sweet attack, almost no upper-mid nastiness. Two problems: first, output is too low to match the neck, and fooling with the neck's height greatly reduces its woody PAF goodness. Second, the C3 has little low-end punch. I would like a bit more punch but don't need all that much.
I'm now pondering an A3 in the following pups:
Burstbucker 3 @ 9.35K DC
Classic '57 @ 9.08K DC
For reference, my Custom is exactly 14.1K DC.
With stock A2 mags, each of these Gibbys was plenty loud and fat but had that snorting upper-mid thing. With other mags these Gibbys (as with almost every pup I've tried) came out as follows:
A5 - kept upper-mid demon, added harsl highs.
A8 - hard, sledgehammer attack and still the upper-mid thing.
A4 - decent, cut the objectionable upper-mid components by half, but with a sterile-sounding "thud" on the attack
A2 - Fat and warm but the upper-mid bump is really noticeable.
So A3 seems to be the only ticket here, and a slightly louder & fatter C3 is the grail. Any idea how the output of my heavily-wound BB3 and 57 will compare to the C3? And how about the lows compared to the C3? I'll likely do the experiment regardless, but I'm curious about your opinions on this.
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