Jazz bridge with alnico 8 magnet

[ploughman]

Re: Jazz bridge with alnico 8 magnet

oh btw, for those of you who don't think a stock jazz bridge can do metal, check out some of JOLLY's clips.

Yeah, I came across Jolly's clips a while back and was impressed by the jazz for heavy riffage. I especially like how it stays defined without becoming fuzzy and sloppy. This is why I was curious about the jazzB with the alnico 8 for metal. Based on the above descriptions, it seems like it would be a bit better for metal than the stock jazzB, and still have a beautiful clean sound.

I have a bit of a bottom-up philosophy with respect to electric guitar tones - I think a good clean sound should be paramount and the first step in the tone quest. From there, the shredding tones can be dialed in, if possible. It's easier to create more gain than it is to create a good clean tone from a pickup that isn't too great clean. That said, how does the C8 sound clean compared to the jazzB8? I've read through the whole custom 8 paradise thread and there aren't many mentions of the clean sounds.

Basically, my dream pickup is one that sounds beautiful clean but can also rip your face off.

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Jazz bridge with alnico 8 magnet

I have a bit of a bottom-up philosophy with respect to electric guitar tones - I think a good clean sound should be paramount and the first step in the tone quest.

Well, it was EXACTLY THIS the basis that took my research towards the '59, the Jazz, the JB and the Custom.

As a pro musician for over twenty-seven years, my clean playing accounted for over 80%, so that's what needed to be great sounding first, THEN you could dial-in the crunch rhytm, then the power chords, then the soloing stuff.

That was the process, so I think you could safely have a go with either the A459n/Custom 8 set for the most versatile combo ever (at least it is to me), or the more vintage-y vibe but still rocky, the PG set A4 neck, A8 bridge.

I've never worked on the Seth Lover set, but due to the selected materials and the handwind, I'm inclined to think that would be a hell of good set with the A4/A8 magnet combo, very vintage-y but more classic sounding than the above.

The best Fantasy set specs-wise, it's an A4 Set Lover neck with an A8 Antiquities bridge... that I'd like to try someday! Unfortunately, they're very difficult to find in Italy, and because they're not very well known, they have no reselling value.

HTH,

 

[dr. ad]

Re: Jazz bridge with alnico 8 magnet

No, I haven't, and I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference without doing an A/B comparison measuring both wires and tpl (turns-per-layer), and at the moment I don't even have the means to do it.


Sorry!

not at all, sir!

i certainly appreciate the info.

 

[ploughman]

Re: Jazz bridge with alnico 8 magnet

Thanks for all the great wisdom sharing. With clarity and articulation being important to me, how would the FullShred8 bridge with Jazz4 neck sound in relation to the C8 bridge with A4'59 neck?

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Jazz bridge with alnico 8 magnet

Thanks for all the great wisdom sharing. With clarity and articulation being important to me, how would the FullShred8 bridge with Jazz4 neck sound in relation to the C8 bridge with A4'59 neck?

It'll be a "harder" sound... a sharp attack will give the illusion of less sustain, IMHO. Also the FS is darker, it won't sound as good as the other combo clean.

Anyway we're splitting hairs here. :naughty: