Distortion vs L-500XL
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Magical Man
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Re: Distortion vs L-500XL
I have a Distortion as the bridge pickup on my all mahogany gibson explorer. Sounds great, it brought some accuracy to the low end of this guitar, when it used to be muddy with the stock pickup.
I have a question for people knowing both of these pickups.
I recently bought a Washburn N4 Davies (built in '91, handmade by Stephen davies), and it came with a SD Pearly Gates pickup as the bridge pickup but i find the p-up to be really thin sounding on an alder guitar. The fake BLUSA L500-XL also was in the case, but i can't stand this brittle piece of $*%t!... so there's no way i'm putting it back. It has a 59 in the neck and it's just perfect.
Even though i like the PG's sound on my Les Paul, the N4 has a very very nervous lutherie with lots of harmonics and punch, and i'd like a pickup with more bottom end (more lows but still very tight ones) and smoother highs, as i'm more into playing rhythm guitar than solos. In one word: a more balanced tone.
I'd like to know which pickup would allow me to smooth the highs while retaining the harmonics, to have a punchy and very tight low end, and still would allow me to have full and fat sounding clean tones.
I really loved the L500-L pickup i tried that was mounted on a padouk N4 (the L500-L from Bill & Becky) but this wood has a warmer sound and i don't know how it would sound on my alder N4. I also really love my Distortion Duncan on my Explorer (except the cleans that are just usable) but it's an all mahogany guitar and already has a lot of bottom end.
Any opinion/advice/choice would be really appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
I have a Distortion as the bridge pickup on my all mahogany gibson explorer. Sounds great, it brought some accuracy to the low end of this guitar, when it used to be muddy with the stock pickup.
I have a question for people knowing both of these pickups.
I recently bought a Washburn N4 Davies (built in '91, handmade by Stephen davies), and it came with a SD Pearly Gates pickup as the bridge pickup but i find the p-up to be really thin sounding on an alder guitar. The fake BLUSA L500-XL also was in the case, but i can't stand this brittle piece of $*%t!... so there's no way i'm putting it back. It has a 59 in the neck and it's just perfect.
Even though i like the PG's sound on my Les Paul, the N4 has a very very nervous lutherie with lots of harmonics and punch, and i'd like a pickup with more bottom end (more lows but still very tight ones) and smoother highs, as i'm more into playing rhythm guitar than solos. In one word: a more balanced tone.
I'd like to know which pickup would allow me to smooth the highs while retaining the harmonics, to have a punchy and very tight low end, and still would allow me to have full and fat sounding clean tones.
I really loved the L500-L pickup i tried that was mounted on a padouk N4 (the L500-L from Bill & Becky) but this wood has a warmer sound and i don't know how it would sound on my alder N4. I also really love my Distortion Duncan on my Explorer (except the cleans that are just usable) but it's an all mahogany guitar and already has a lot of bottom end.
Any opinion/advice/choice would be really appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Magical Man
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Re: Distortion vs L-500XL
Weird, i find the L500-XL to be hotter, yes, but the sound of the L500-L to be more balanced with less screaming highs.
Thanks for your help.
Weird, i find the L500-XL to be hotter, yes, but the sound of the L500-L to be more balanced with less screaming highs.
Thanks for your help.
Magical Man
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Re: Distortion vs L-500XL
Hey no problem! It probably has more to do with the fact that english is not my first language and i didn't get it right. Excuse my frenchness :smack: and thanks for your input!
Hey no problem! It probably has more to do with the fact that english is not my first language and i didn't get it right. Excuse my frenchness :smack: and thanks for your input!