Breed / Super distortion in basswood body
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Re: Breed / Super distortion in basswood body
well, i wired it.
First, i have to tell that i was worried that breed`s midboost could be annoying, but i was wrong!
For my ears, biggest difference from EVO (when talking about mids) is that evo is pushing the mids somehow deattached from whole sound spectrum, and they dominate the sound, but breed is completely different, breed`s mids are strongly pushed and open but very balanced and somewhat tamed. They certainly have an edge, but they don`t dominate, they saturate the whole signal very fine, and blend in just great. There is no too honky mid spike, but you got a lot of mids, and they are clearer than i thought. For my ears, lot clearer then evo`s mids. More like a clear and strong foundation of sound than in your face mid honk.
Treble is fine, not muffled as some could think, every riff and chord have an edge, also you can scream, but definitely can`t get as much harmonics as evo. That is a thing where i expected bit more. I can pinch it, but not so easy as you could expect from a high output pickup. You really have to be precise. Also, i expected less treble, but its good.
It works very well under high gain, but it`s more leaned to a "clear pickup" then to a distortion pickup. Sound is not compressed, but it`s very beefy and distortion saturates it fine. Yes, you can play wicked palm mutes with it, bottom end is great (not supertight but reasonably tight) but don`t expect Pantera saturation. It`s more clearer, has good bottom end somehow sounds very balanced in my guitar.
Overall, my sound definitely got richer, but i`m not under impression that i droped a high output pickup in. It`s more between medium touches high category.
and overall, i`m satisfied (for now) it`s not a bad pickup at all. i think that vintage high gain players should like it. I`ll block my trem soon, to push it`s beef a bit more just to see what happens.
well, i wired it.
First, i have to tell that i was worried that breed`s midboost could be annoying, but i was wrong!
For my ears, biggest difference from EVO (when talking about mids) is that evo is pushing the mids somehow deattached from whole sound spectrum, and they dominate the sound, but breed is completely different, breed`s mids are strongly pushed and open but very balanced and somewhat tamed. They certainly have an edge, but they don`t dominate, they saturate the whole signal very fine, and blend in just great. There is no too honky mid spike, but you got a lot of mids, and they are clearer than i thought. For my ears, lot clearer then evo`s mids. More like a clear and strong foundation of sound than in your face mid honk.
Treble is fine, not muffled as some could think, every riff and chord have an edge, also you can scream, but definitely can`t get as much harmonics as evo. That is a thing where i expected bit more. I can pinch it, but not so easy as you could expect from a high output pickup. You really have to be precise. Also, i expected less treble, but its good.
It works very well under high gain, but it`s more leaned to a "clear pickup" then to a distortion pickup. Sound is not compressed, but it`s very beefy and distortion saturates it fine. Yes, you can play wicked palm mutes with it, bottom end is great (not supertight but reasonably tight) but don`t expect Pantera saturation. It`s more clearer, has good bottom end somehow sounds very balanced in my guitar.
Overall, my sound definitely got richer, but i`m not under impression that i droped a high output pickup in. It`s more between medium touches high category.
and overall, i`m satisfied (for now) it`s not a bad pickup at all. i think that vintage high gain players should like it. I`ll block my trem soon, to push it`s beef a bit more just to see what happens.
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