CTN
The Drama Dude
well, the humbucker loaded ones anyway...three of em
the jolly roger cutlasscaster, the CTN Polaris, and the Epi SG.
1st place - Cutlasscaster. It's all there. growl, cut, chewiness, tightness, screaming mids, smooth highs, effortless playing, tone machine through and through.
2nd place - CTN Polaris. killer tones for the most part but I find myself once again feeling like the JB is just slightly off. I normally like JBs in alder body bolt ons, which the Polaris is, but the slight flub in the low end and the empty-ish low mids leave me wanting something more. The Custom RCA3 in my cutlasscaster just sounds so much fuller and more pleasing.
dead last - Epi SG. Not necessarily cuz it's an Epi. The '59 8B/4N combo is great and all, and the mahogany adds a nice growl (or maybe that's the A8), but it just doesn't have the bright, "aliveness" that I've come to love about the alder/maple combination. Also the gibbo construction that still feels weird to me. It's not as easy to play as strats, for me.
I was playing a whole bunch of techincal death metal, swingin' blues, some classic rock stuff, cleans blah blah blah, put them through the ringer. Cutlasscaster won everything hands down.
And here she is.
the jolly roger cutlasscaster, the CTN Polaris, and the Epi SG.
1st place - Cutlasscaster. It's all there. growl, cut, chewiness, tightness, screaming mids, smooth highs, effortless playing, tone machine through and through.
2nd place - CTN Polaris. killer tones for the most part but I find myself once again feeling like the JB is just slightly off. I normally like JBs in alder body bolt ons, which the Polaris is, but the slight flub in the low end and the empty-ish low mids leave me wanting something more. The Custom RCA3 in my cutlasscaster just sounds so much fuller and more pleasing.
dead last - Epi SG. Not necessarily cuz it's an Epi. The '59 8B/4N combo is great and all, and the mahogany adds a nice growl (or maybe that's the A8), but it just doesn't have the bright, "aliveness" that I've come to love about the alder/maple combination. Also the gibbo construction that still feels weird to me. It's not as easy to play as strats, for me.
I was playing a whole bunch of techincal death metal, swingin' blues, some classic rock stuff, cleans blah blah blah, put them through the ringer. Cutlasscaster won everything hands down.
And here she is.
