has anybody used a PATB3 as a neck pickup?

[STLMTLHD79]

I just picked up a mid 90s MIJ Jackson Kelly and thought about using one of these as a neck pickup-I have one but never used it.

Any experience with this pickup, even in the bridge position? tone characteristics? ideas of what it would sound like in the neck?

 

[Despair]

Re: has anybody used a PATB3 as a neck pickup?

There was a bunch of discussion of using it as a neck pickup opposite of the PATB-2 Parallel Axis Distortion, but I can't recall if anyone reported in who had done it, or if they had tried it with other pickups. Don't have time to fiddle with google to try to trim the astounding amount of irrelevant garbage it's finding...

Lots of people like it in the bridge, there it's like a Brobucker with extended presence. Or a higher output '59 that didn't get darker with the extra winds. Very flexible, great PAFlike tones, but with a bit of extra output. Not harsh high end or presence, though. In the neck, the presence may make it work better than a similarly overwound PAF would, but it might just have too much lower mids/bass, hard to say. Only way to know for sure if it will work for you is to try it.

I have a PATB-1b, which I still love, but sometimes mildly regret not going with the PATB-3 as I want better cleans now, changing tastes (and a rig with better cleans), heh.

If you like a hot neck pickup, it seems worth trying!

 

[elelpe]

Re: has anybody used a PATB3 as a neck pickup?

It was too fat in 22 frets short scale guitar (my LP). Maybe it sounds better in 24 frets long scale guitar like your Jackson.

 

[Returned]

Re: has anybody used a PATB3 as a neck pickup?

One man's "too fat" can be another's "nice and fat"

I play a non-aired Norton in the neck position of my superstrat (JB bridge)

 

[elelpe]

Re: has anybody used a PATB3 as a neck pickup?

Surely. Since the OP already has it, why not try it? BS himself used it as neck pickup in his Samick signature guitar.

It just didn't have enough high end to me in that particular guitar. I still keep it though. It's a special pickup. .