I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
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Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
Have you checked to make sure you have 500k pots in your guitar?.
Try lowering the pickup and raising the polepieces. Also, lower the bass side of the pickup in relation to the treble side.
These are common tweaks for setting up a humbucker, if it sounds too muddy/bassy.
Al
Have you checked to make sure you have 500k pots in your guitar?.
Try lowering the pickup and raising the polepieces. Also, lower the bass side of the pickup in relation to the treble side.
These are common tweaks for setting up a humbucker, if it sounds too muddy/bassy.
Al
Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
Lower bass side, raise screw poles to compensate for volume is first thing to try to drop bass and maintain string balance.
Also, shorter polepiece screws under the wound strings gives a bit more attack and rolled off low end, too. There's also a trick of shunting the bass out with a high pass filter, search for Artie's De-Mud Mod.
If those don't do it, magnet swaps are up next. A3 will drop the pickup's volume considerably, and will give a squishier feel, but yes, much less bass. Sort of a brighter, quieter A2. A4 has a bit less highs and lows, but stronger mids. Replacing A5 with A4 doesn't have a large impact on output.
A4 is a classic PAF magnet, along with roughcast A5 (a bit smoother treble than currently more common polished A5) and A2.
Lower bass side, raise screw poles to compensate for volume is first thing to try to drop bass and maintain string balance.
Also, shorter polepiece screws under the wound strings gives a bit more attack and rolled off low end, too. There's also a trick of shunting the bass out with a high pass filter, search for Artie's De-Mud Mod.
If those don't do it, magnet swaps are up next. A3 will drop the pickup's volume considerably, and will give a squishier feel, but yes, much less bass. Sort of a brighter, quieter A2. A4 has a bit less highs and lows, but stronger mids. Replacing A5 with A4 doesn't have a large impact on output.
A4 is a classic PAF magnet, along with roughcast A5 (a bit smoother treble than currently more common polished A5) and A2.
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Discharged
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Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
/Peter
All you need to do is to slant the bass side of the p'up farther away from the strings. It might look "funny", but It does exactly what you're asking for.
/Peter
BluesIsBlood12
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Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
Love the A4. A2/A3 are both good too, if you want to experiment. Depends on what you use the neck for.
Love the A4. A2/A3 are both good too, if you want to experiment. Depends on what you use the neck for.
Cdwillis
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Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
You can try soldering a .047 cap in line between the hot wire from the neck pickup and the volume pot.
https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/mod-squad-muddy-sounding-neck-pickup
You can try soldering a .047 cap in line between the hot wire from the neck pickup and the volume pot.
https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/mod-squad-muddy-sounding-neck-pickup
Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
The Jazz has no place in a heavy metal guitar player's shopping cart.
The Jazz has no place in a heavy metal guitar player's shopping cart.
Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
Really? It won't make you love a pickup that you hate, but I find that it does change the sound a lot.
Really? It won't make you love a pickup that you hate, but I find that it does change the sound a lot.
Big Mike Blues
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Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
I need to try that one of these days. Just for grins to see what happens.
I need to try that one of these days. Just for grins to see what happens.
BluesIsBlood12
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Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
I find that it definitely does change the sound, though for better or worse is entirely up to the user.
I find that it definitely does change the sound, though for better or worse is entirely up to the user.
Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
WHAT??!!!!
You've got a '59 and you're contemplating doing a mag swap which will essentially make it sound and perform similar to a Jazz pup and you make an irrational statement like that!
You sound like a typical teenage heavy metal player who just wants to bang away at his guitar and make a lot of noise without knowing diddly squat about music or his own guitar.
Learn the basics first and you'll be a better metal player in the end.
WHAT??!!!!
You've got a '59 and you're contemplating doing a mag swap which will essentially make it sound and perform similar to a Jazz pup and you make an irrational statement like that!
You sound like a typical teenage heavy metal player who just wants to bang away at his guitar and make a lot of noise without knowing diddly squat about music or his own guitar.
Learn the basics first and you'll be a better metal player in the end.
Re: I love the '59 neck but lows are too flabby and bassy
Are you sure you want guitar to be your instrument of choice?
Are you sure you want guitar to be your instrument of choice?
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