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This is my guitar. https://www.charvel.com/gear/shape/s...=neon-pink-ash
It came stock with a Dimarzio super distortion and I found the sound to be all over the place. It sounded too muffled, too dark, the highs didn’t cut through the right way and the sound, it was everywhere. It was not tight at all, it was not defined, it was literally like just “lots of sound”. Not sure if that description makes sense but it was just it was too much of everything and not enough of anything.
Then I tried the DiMarzio Fortitude bridge pickup. Maybe it works well for Gojira but for me, there just was not anywhere near enough output and I really did not like the pick up.
Currently I have a Dean Baker Act bridge pick up in this guitar. It’s my go-to bridge pickup and it’s great and alder and mahogany, but in ash it, sounds too thin, in all but the highest gain. There is too much high-end there’s not enough low-end and the mids are just super duper scooped with extra high-end fizz.
What I like about ash are the split coil sounds/ single coil kind of vibe I can get in this guitar. I think single coil pickups/ series parallel sounds are wonderful. But then when I go onto my hard rock humbucker tone I haven’t been able to find a place that I really like.
I’m looking for something that sounds tight and defined with a muscular sounding rhythm, but not so fat that it doesn’t cut right. I’m looking for highs that are rolled off a little bit so to be not quite as piercing. I’m looking for great lows, great articulation in the low mids. It also has a split for single coil tones really well. I solo and do lots of tapping riffs, so its got to be good for that too.
I’m not big on the JB in ash. The duncan distortion sounds better to my ears, but still isn’t exactly what I’m looking for either. So I’m here looking for suggestions? I mainly play hard rock and shred.
It came stock with a Dimarzio super distortion and I found the sound to be all over the place. It sounded too muffled, too dark, the highs didn’t cut through the right way and the sound, it was everywhere. It was not tight at all, it was not defined, it was literally like just “lots of sound”. Not sure if that description makes sense but it was just it was too much of everything and not enough of anything.
Then I tried the DiMarzio Fortitude bridge pickup. Maybe it works well for Gojira but for me, there just was not anywhere near enough output and I really did not like the pick up.
Currently I have a Dean Baker Act bridge pick up in this guitar. It’s my go-to bridge pickup and it’s great and alder and mahogany, but in ash it, sounds too thin, in all but the highest gain. There is too much high-end there’s not enough low-end and the mids are just super duper scooped with extra high-end fizz.
What I like about ash are the split coil sounds/ single coil kind of vibe I can get in this guitar. I think single coil pickups/ series parallel sounds are wonderful. But then when I go onto my hard rock humbucker tone I haven’t been able to find a place that I really like.
I’m looking for something that sounds tight and defined with a muscular sounding rhythm, but not so fat that it doesn’t cut right. I’m looking for highs that are rolled off a little bit so to be not quite as piercing. I’m looking for great lows, great articulation in the low mids. It also has a split for single coil tones really well. I solo and do lots of tapping riffs, so its got to be good for that too.
I’m not big on the JB in ash. The duncan distortion sounds better to my ears, but still isn’t exactly what I’m looking for either. So I’m here looking for suggestions? I mainly play hard rock and shred.
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