As suggested by another forumite I put a SLSD (Lil screamin demon) pup in the bridge position of my G&L Legacy. I have a SL59b in the middle and a SL59n in the neck. I had to put the SLSD very close to the strings and put the SL59's pretty low to get the output to balance across selections. That's ok, but I have 2 issues:
1) My main issue is the tone has a bit too much highs- high mids with the SLSD pup selected. This guitar is a bit bright anyway so I need to go slightly the other way.
2) The bass content between the SLSD and the SL59's is not balanced. The 59's are boomy anyway so I don't think this is something I can fix by getting a bassier bridge pup, although it might help some. I have a fix to try for the boominess that involves wiring the guitar's bass control to only kick in when the 59's are selected.
It seems to me I need a pickup that is 1 notch down in high-mid to high end response and maybe 1 notch up in overall output. Something just a tad meatier (not muddy though). Looking at the tone chart, I don't see anything that might do all of this. The JB jr. might do it, but some posts suggest it has issues on the high end + it might be too hot. Maybe I need a Cool Rail? I have not used this guitar on a gig and maybe I should before I change anything, but I believe Duncan has a policy where you can swap a new pup for another one no charge and I want to get this worked out before the time to swap expires.
thanks
1) My main issue is the tone has a bit too much highs- high mids with the SLSD pup selected. This guitar is a bit bright anyway so I need to go slightly the other way.
2) The bass content between the SLSD and the SL59's is not balanced. The 59's are boomy anyway so I don't think this is something I can fix by getting a bassier bridge pup, although it might help some. I have a fix to try for the boominess that involves wiring the guitar's bass control to only kick in when the 59's are selected.
It seems to me I need a pickup that is 1 notch down in high-mid to high end response and maybe 1 notch up in overall output. Something just a tad meatier (not muddy though). Looking at the tone chart, I don't see anything that might do all of this. The JB jr. might do it, but some posts suggest it has issues on the high end + it might be too hot. Maybe I need a Cool Rail? I have not used this guitar on a gig and maybe I should before I change anything, but I believe Duncan has a policy where you can swap a new pup for another one no charge and I want to get this worked out before the time to swap expires.
thanks
