Charvel Super Stock 1888-no pickup sounds good.

[STLMTLHD79]

I am just about to give up on this thing. Stock Super Distortion sounded terrible in this. Swapped to a SD Jupiter-not any better. Swapped to a 59/Custom Hybrid-Not terrible but not a tone that I can use.

I think the main problem with this guitar body design is that the bridge pickup is way too far in front of the bridge AND also the lower strings are even further forward since it is angled. If the pickup was back an inch, it would probably sound pretty damn good.

Its a beautiful guitar but i think it has a fatal design flaw. The neck, on the other hand, is incredible- thick ebony slab fretboard, sharkfin inlays and reverse headstock. Its somewhat valuable however, I am considering parting it out and keeping this incredible neck, the Floyd 1000 and maybe the pickups.

Any suggestions? I talked to a friend who is a Charvel/Jackson artist and he recommended possibly a Full Shred.

 

[Mincer]

So what is the EQ like now, and what do you want it to be?

 

[ICTGoober]

When all else fails - try a Bill Lawrence XL-500.

 

[STLMTLHD79]

So what is the EQ like now, and what do you want it to be?

Right now it has this chip-y thing going on with very little low end-still somewhat muddy but the high strings dont sound bad. I want it to chug since its in drop C# tuning and it does not do that at all.

 

[Mincer]

My first suggestions would either be the Pegasus or Black Winter.

 

[Ascension]

Right now it has this chip-y thing going on with very little low end-still somewhat muddy but the high strings dont sound bad. I want it to chug since its in drop C# tuning and it does not do that at all.

Try a Dimarzio Gravity Storm bridge. BIG round PAF on steroids tones.

 

[Chistopher]

Right now it has this chip-y thing going on with very little low end-still somewhat muddy but the high strings dont sound bad. I want it to chug since its in drop C# tuning and it does not do that at all.

Definitely not a Full Shred. It will take you the opposite direction.

What guage strings do you have?

 

[GuitarStv]

I don't know if you can fix a bridge position that's in the wrong spot. Like, you can probably make it sound OK . . . but it'll never sound like one that's in the right location. It's sensing different parts of the string and different harmonics.

 

[Mincer]

I don't know if you can fix a bridge position that's in the wrong spot. Like, you can probably make it sound OK . . . but it'll never sound like one that's in the right location. It's sensing different parts of the string and different harmonics.

This is why I don't like 24 fret guitars. The neck pickup is simply not in the 'right' place for the harmonics I want to hear there.

 

[GuitarStv]

This is why I don't like 24 fret guitars. The neck pickup is simply not in the 'right' place for the harmonics I want to hear there.

Yep, ditto. It's just a cm or so, but stops sounding the way I want a neck pickup to sound.

 

[Mincer]

Yep, ditto. It's just a cm or so, but stops sounding the way I want a neck pickup to sound.

Its funny, because a lot of people don't hear the difference.

 

[Chistopher]

Its funny, because a lot of people don't hear the difference.

That's because we've learned through years of practice to compensate for the minute differences in instrument by implementing precise tweaks to our technique.

You know what would happen if I told my producer "I cannot get this guitar to sound right, they installed the neck pickup in the wrong spot"? He'd believe me. And the rest of the guys would laugh at me. Heck, my wife would make me sleep on the couch.

 

[Mincer]

That's because we've learned through years of practice to compensate for the minute differences in instrument by implementing precise tweaks to our technique.

You know what would happen if I told my producer "I cannot get this guitar to sound right, they installed the neck pickup in the wrong spot"? He'd believe me. And the rest of the guys would laugh at me. Heck, my wife would make me sleep on the couch.

You can't add something that simply isn't there to begin with.