DreX
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This seemed like an obvious question, and I'm sure it's been asked before, but a search didn't turn up much for me: what is you favorite "clean" humbucker?
I got a Lee Malia sig Epi Les Paul, not because I like nu metal, but because it's basically amounts to a reissue of the Les Paul Artisan, and so it comes with a rather dark P-94 and a nu metal DiMarzioesque bridge pickup. I'd like to make this into a good "clean" guitar. My first choice is the Jazz, it sounds like a good clean pickup, but some have said it sounds sterile, or a bit too tight and lacking in warmth. How might the Jazz sound with different magnets? Isn't another one of the production pickups basically a Jazz with an A2 bar?
I love, but already have, Pearly Gates and Seth Lovers in other HH guitars. I have a '59 and a JB on hand, but I found the '59 to be great, though a little too 'middle of the road', and the JB a bit bright and poppy, like it will do clean... but it wants gain.
I got a Lee Malia sig Epi Les Paul, not because I like nu metal, but because it's basically amounts to a reissue of the Les Paul Artisan, and so it comes with a rather dark P-94 and a nu metal DiMarzioesque bridge pickup. I'd like to make this into a good "clean" guitar. My first choice is the Jazz, it sounds like a good clean pickup, but some have said it sounds sterile, or a bit too tight and lacking in warmth. How might the Jazz sound with different magnets? Isn't another one of the production pickups basically a Jazz with an A2 bar?
I love, but already have, Pearly Gates and Seth Lovers in other HH guitars. I have a '59 and a JB on hand, but I found the '59 to be great, though a little too 'middle of the road', and the JB a bit bright and poppy, like it will do clean... but it wants gain.
