Duncan Designed on a Rhoads JS32?

[Chaotica]

Greetings all,

Well just to start, i know the DD's from what i been reading are a hit or miss tonally, however the Cedro wood and the CVR's jackson put together are how do you say DEAD sounding, Pinch Harmonics are horrible and are hit or miss even natural harmonics seem the same, so overall, (at least this guitar), lead playing sounds like it is through a dirty sock and seems to lose the output to just be acceptable.

But i was not looking for anything expensive, and playability wise i love it, was looking at the HD-102 set to pop in this thing and see if it gives it some tonal life, + i do not see putting $150+ in pups into a $300 guitar. This is not a gig/recording axe. just something to jam out at the house.

Personal Favs have been the JB/59' for many years, (have not tried out the jazz enough to make a call on it, But was just a little to bright for my liking the very few times i have tried them out), but just not sure if i want to put the money out even for a used set of DD HB-102's if overall they will sound like the CVR's it currently has.

So good or bad drop your thoughts.

Thanks
Chaotica

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

Re: Duncan Designed on a Rhoads JS32?

They will be better. Trust me.

Almst every import guitar on the market uses the cheapest pickups they can get away with.

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Duncan Designed on a Rhoads JS32?

I have an older set of DD's (distortion set) in a Hamer import. They sound really good in that guitar and if fact sounded better than several of the regular production SD's that I put in it. If you have a set laying around or can get a set for a reasonable price I say why not. The worst thing that can happen is they sound no better that what you have in there now, and you're not out a lot of money. They may even sound better. I'm a fan of tweaking things though.

One of my best sounding and playing guitars is a cheap old Yamaha strat copy that I got back in 1990. I don't even think I paid $200 for it an a gorilla amp. I completely refinished it and put in new electronics and it's a keeper. You never know what you have until you mess with it a bit.

Good luck.