WyrmCracker
New member
I have been recording with a Peavey XXX and a v30 cab. I do progressive/shreddy style music. I have a handful of Ibanez Mahogony Sabres with various pickups.
The Dimarzio Norton I was using since the 90s with various preamps. It has a huge hi-fi sound with the XXX. Great rythym, crappy lead tone with v30. The Full shred sounded much better.
Then I tried recording with a stock XXX speaker. Wow! The Norton which sounded really thin and scooped, now sounds wide and present, like satch.
I was about to pull the norton and replace with a PAF pro, but with the new speaker, the norton guitar sounds great.
Its just crazy. The v30 seems to have an icepick in the wrong spot for the norton, but the XXX speaker seems to work really well with it.
The wet/dry setup just sounds brilliant now.
SO MY ADVICE IS TO HANG ON TO ALL YOUR OLD PICKUPS. If you have multiple guitars, keep the pickups in there to try out with your next gear swap. Every time you change anything, amp, speaker, pedal, you should give all the old guitars and pickups a spin.
The Dimarzio Norton I was using since the 90s with various preamps. It has a huge hi-fi sound with the XXX. Great rythym, crappy lead tone with v30. The Full shred sounded much better.
Then I tried recording with a stock XXX speaker. Wow! The Norton which sounded really thin and scooped, now sounds wide and present, like satch.
I was about to pull the norton and replace with a PAF pro, but with the new speaker, the norton guitar sounds great.
Its just crazy. The v30 seems to have an icepick in the wrong spot for the norton, but the XXX speaker seems to work really well with it.
The wet/dry setup just sounds brilliant now.
SO MY ADVICE IS TO HANG ON TO ALL YOUR OLD PICKUPS. If you have multiple guitars, keep the pickups in there to try out with your next gear swap. Every time you change anything, amp, speaker, pedal, you should give all the old guitars and pickups a spin.