Custom vs Custom 5

[Ed Hunter]

Re: Custom vs Custom 5

The Custom 8 outshines the regular custom and flabby custom 5 to me personally.....

See it really comes down to personal opinion, to soiledwork the C8 is the best to me the reg custom is to papersoul the CC is the best!
get it?
I would not listen to me simply because i am pretty sure i use a very different rig than you so my opinion is not valid for this application But if you,take a guy who has a rig just like yours and plays the same basic style and then the opinion is more valid and useful:approve:

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Custom vs Custom 5

Id be happy to let you play my guitar with various ceramic, a5 ahd a2 pups and then see if you still believe that. There is a merked difference between them. If you have your pups wound down far away from the strings, I can understand but not with them up high as I have them.

I don't need to. I have a Gaussmeter so I can measure it, and the readings I get from HBs are nowhere near the readings I get from the strat p'ups causing "strat-itis" and "ghost notes" from their narrow-field poles.

Even if it WAS possible that a HB magnetic field will "keep the strings from ringing, killing the sustain", having them set so high is just a bad setup or a big mismatch of gear. WHY would you have'em like that goes beyond my imagination. You wouldn't happen to play hardcore metal, by any chance?

But, hey! To each its own, I guess. :cool2:

 

[dvanburen]

Re: Custom vs Custom 5

Custom 8. Done. It's got big power. Not as much as with a ceramic but done let that scare you. It's tight big warm bright and cutting without being shrill. Very responsive but cleans up nice depending on how hard you hit the strings

 

[blueman335]

Re: Custom vs Custom 5

Custom 8. Done. It's got big power. Not as much as with a ceramic but done let that scare you. It's tight big warm bright and cutting without being shrill. Very responsive but cleans up nice depending on how hard you hit the strings

I think the C8 is better and more versatile than the three Customs in production now, at least from a blues/classic rock perspective. My favorite Custom is one with an UOA5, as that has a lot of texture and dynamics.

 

[dvanburen]

Re: Custom vs Custom 5

I think the C8 is better and more versatile than the three Customs in production now, at least from a blues/classic rock perspective.

I say its better from a rock/metal perspective too. I played a stock custom for a long time and loved it for rock/metal. But the C8 gives most everything that the stock custom gives but adds so much more warmth and character to it. stock custom has a bigger punch in the low end. C8 does too just not as big. What the C8 lacks in low end punch, (compared to SH-5) it makes up for in note bloom, midrange creaminess, string separation and the ability to soften up when you pick softer and hit hard when you slam it. I play the C8 through a high gain 5150 and tune down to drop C tuning. Talk about punch and power man! I will never look back at the regular custom again.

 

[KBliss]

Re: Custom vs Custom 5

I traded my guitar for the same in a different color, that came with a Duncan Custom. At first I could hear what people love about this pickup- it is midcrunch bliss. However, I couldn't play it because it didn't really get tightbass until it was really loud, & I pick pretty hard so I smashed all the mids into a mess. I was shocked how warm, spongy & middy it was for a ceramic magnet,: but I can't picture what weaker mags do. If you're a light, economic shred picker, I would highly recommend the SH5 custom if you want Randy Rhoads' LesPaul/ Ttop sqwAAAUUUK with the sound flooding out fully.

 

[SFW]

Re: Custom vs Custom 5

I would hardly call the custom sterile. It is been my experience to be a very warm pickup.