customizing Gus G Fires?

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vector350

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Just dropped a set of the Gus G's in my Charvel custom shop Star. Had factory Blackouts in there but they were missing something. The Fires are an improvement, adding nice passive characteristics: excellent responsiveness, killer harmonics, great high end tone. But... (and there always is a "but" :18:) the bottom end lacks tightness, crispness. So, is it possible to get SD to customize a set of the Fires to have a tighter, more pronounced bottom end?
 
Re: customizing Gus G Fires?

answer is Yes it is possible.
You can also find some other pickups on the chart tone of SD website.
 
Re: customizing Gus G Fires?

The preamp adds a lot of gain and colors the tone quite a bit. The Ahb-1's started with a jazz set as their base pickup. Anything to hot and dark will just get muddy.

Maybe a 59, pg+ or screamin demon would be better, but I have been toying around with just swapping an A8 or double ceramic into my g-fire bridge to tighten it up. I have another guitar with the Ahb-2 metal bridge in it and its pretty much perfect.

I too found the Ahb-1's & 3's to be lacking something even though the output and tone was boosted over Emg's I liked the Emg's better as a whole.
 
Re: customizing Gus G Fires?

I have no idea how it will work in the coil packs, but you could try replacing the filister polepieces with hex polepieces.
 
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