Custom Custom vs. Pearly Gates vs. Hades Gates

[Butch Snyder]

This is a new post because I wanted to take the info I learned from the Custom Custom vs. Pearly Gates thread I started. Can anyone give me some insight concerning the comparison of the Custom Custom, Peary Gates, and Hades Gates? I'm think that the Hades Gates might be a 'happy medium" in the middle of the Peary Gates and Custom Custom. Anyone have any thoughts about this?

 

[Mincer]

Well, the Custom Custom is hotter than both of them, and you definitely 'feel' that when you use it. EQ-wise, the Hades doesn't yet have an EQ chart. So that is hard to do a 1 to 1 comparison. I always go with the EQ your particular guitar needs, so I have to go by the description. From that, it sounds like it has more mids and power than the PGs, so yes, it is probably between them both. But I am someone who doesn't thing the CC sounds anything like the PG, so...

 

[beaubrummels]

Haven't had a chance to use a Hades Gates. Have extensive experience with Pearly and Custom Custom, which it sounds like you had covered in another thread.

 

[jeremy]

same, i havent tried a hades gates yet, but it should be somewhere between the pearly and cc. its on my short list to try

 

[Butch Snyder]

Okay, I just ordered the Hades Gates bridge model. Since no one has tried one, I can be the guinea pig. My particular application will be in a swamp ash body and maple neck/fretboard guitar. I just hope the Pearly Gates in the neck and the Hades Gates in the bridge don't fight with each other. It's kind of like having the little devil on one shoulder and the little angel on the other.

 

[jeremy]

sweet! curious what ya think once ya get it installed

 

[ToneFiddler]

yeah, report back! I like the PG as is, but i also might like an overwound variant of it.

i think the slash models are more in line with the SH-11 if you want lower output.

 

[Butch Snyder]

I'm definitely happy to review and even do sound samples. But it's going to be a couple of weeks or longer before I can get to it. I'll do some sound samples with the CC/PG and the HG/PG when I do.

 

[jeremy]

sounds great, thanks butch

 

[Mincer]

No doubt your review and clips will help people here when they are trying to decide, too!

 

[Chistopher]

Okay, I just ordered the Hades Gates bridge model. Since no one has tried one, I can be the guinea pig. My particular application will be in a swamp ash body and maple neck/fretboard guitar. I just hope the Pearly Gates in the neck and the Hades Gates in the bridge don't fight with each other. It's kind of like having the little devil on one shoulder and the little angel on the other.

I think that's a good choice, PGn / HGb is what I would have went with as well. I love the PGn, but the bridge doesn't have enough oomf for me.

I know it's a Strat, but you gotta find a way to get a poker chip on there

 

[Butch Snyder]

Nice packaging.

 

[Butch Snyder]

I didn't realize I ordered a Trembucker! I guess it's ok. My guitar has a trem.

 

[Mincer]

Well, it looks super cool!

 

[Masta' C]

Hell yeah! Finally someone here has taken the plunge...excited to hear your thoughts on it!

 

[Butch Snyder]

Hell yeah! Finally someone here has taken the plunge...excited to hear your thoughts on it!

My gut tells me it will fit the bill. I will post video clips of the CC and the HG and will give my thoughts. It will be a couple of weeks though.

 

[misterwhizzy]

Are these pronounced Hay-deez Gate-eez?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Okay, I have an update. I recorded a video of me paying the CC. It's up on Youtube. Personally, I'm not crazy about it. I think there is to much reverb; but you guys will get the idea. Today, I removed the CC and installed the HG. From my perspective, the difference isn't all that dramatic. There is a little more top end, which I like. It's not as thick in the mids. Personally, I think it's a really nice match to a PG that's in the neck. Early next week, I will do a video of the HG and uploaded so you all can hear the HG. I won't use any reverb.

One thing to note, I'm doing these demos as if I were playing a gig; so it's through my own rig using my settings.

 

[Masta' C]

Link?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Link?

I haven't posted them yet. I still need to a video for the HG. Here is my video for the CC. As I play the HG more, it's like a mid-output pickup but it does something the higher-output pickups like the CC don't do. Under gain, it lets each string ring through. Arpeggios are harmonically rich.


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