Custom 5 Cleans?

[telemike]

How is the Custom 5 for clean sounds?

I see lots of reccomendations for the Custom 5 around here and I bet it sounds killer on overdrive from the site clips, however the clean sound clip is kind of overdriven which shys me away from the C5.

Tell me the truth and any other clips of the C5 or Screamin' Demon out there?????

 

[Artie]

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I love the C5 clean. Its in my current most-played axe. I seldom use distortion. Its also one of my favorite Tele-Gib bridge pups. Nice, "country-gentlemen" twang.

 

[uOpt]

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Better than the cold Duncan Custom's cleans for sure.

But too driven and sharp for women music I'd say. EQing is might help through, I think it's just the EQ that's off.

 

[RockStarNick]

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Love the C5 cleans. Because of the C5s neutral mids, the cleans can really shine and not sound honky.

That's what I love about the C5. Relatively high output, strong sounding when overdriven, solid, crunchy, AND great cleans.

 

[telemike]

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You guys are tempting me to get a hot pickup to replace my JB with. I was first thinking Jazz bridge, then the standard '59....next up was the Screamin' Demon and now the Custom 5....

I may take a chance on the Custom 5 then if it has nice clean tones and great overdrive tones.

 

[korovamilkdud]

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My perception of the C5 is that it's bassy. Tight, punchy, but also bassy. That can be a good thing of course. If you have an alnico II magnet you can make your pickup a Custom Custom instead. Also sounds good clean.

 

[LtKojak]

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The Custom 5 cleans are excellent, to say the least.

Pepe aka Lt. Kojak
Milano, Italy

 

[telemike]

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That sounds good. I just need something better than the JB at cleans.

 

[Benjy_26]

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I personally don't care for the C5's cleans. It just sounds too dull and muffled for my tastes.

The Demon sounds much livelier when clean IM(not so humble)O.

 

[telemike]

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Gonna take a chance on the C5. Made a decision!

 

[LtKojak]

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I personally don't care for the C5's cleans. It just sounds too dull and muffled for my tastes.

I've installed 'bout a hundred C5s in the last couple of years and the (very) few complaints I've heard 'bout 'em was being a bit "shrill" in certain guitars or certain amps in certain (heavy) styles of music, so I just can't imagine a C5 sound "dull and muffled" in any guitar unless there's something wrong somewhere in the wiring...

 

[Benjy_26]

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I've installed 'bout a hundred C5s in the last couple of years and the (very) few complaints I've heard 'bout 'em was being a bit "shrill" in certain guitars or certain amps in certain (heavy) styles of music, so I just can't imagine a C5 sound "dull and muffled" in any guitar unless there's something wrong somewhere in the wiring...

I've swapped and installed well over 100 pickups just in my own guitars. I'm pretty shure I know how to do a basic install. Maybe it's just my ears, but that's how I hear the C5.

 

[Tor]

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Better than the cold Duncan Custom's cleans for sure.

Hm.. Aren't the regular Customs all that nice in the clean department?

 

[uOpt]

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Hm.. Aren't the regular Customs all that nice in the clean department?

They are good but not nice.

The cleans of the DC are hard and cold, but not unmusical. You can't make "women's music" with them and my old (classical) guitar teacher wouldn't be amused.

But if you have a sweeter sounding neck pickup, you'll use that one for that kind of music anyway. Once there, it is actually an advantage to have those icey cleans from the bridge pickup to support a certain kind of atmosphere in a dark song's opening.

I seriously condsider leaving the DC in my Burny now, but with regards to the topic of this thread I can't recommend it. This thread is about "nice" cleans from the bridge if I got that correctly.

 

[Diocletian]

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I had a guy at my house the other week playing my Epi SG with a Custom 5 in it. He only ever plays clean stuff, and normally through high end Fender strats, so he really knows his clean stuff.
He was blown away with how good my SG sounded through the Marshall AVT, so much so I think he was planning on buying a Custom 5 himself to put in something.
He also loved the clean Blackouts, but was REALLY taken with the C5.

Myself, I don't really play clean so I dunno.