My Schecter PT - What Next?

[appar111]

Re: My Schecter PT - What Next?

In a club situation, ya need something that's gonna work without much more than swapping a guitar as quick as possible. When I break a string , I just have to grab the 2nd guitar and go...no time to fiddle with knobs, the band's not gonna wait. I was shocked the first time I swapped the Tele (broke a string) and how day and night the tone was. I'm not expecting my MIK Tele to sound as good as my Gibby, but it needs to fill my needs as I'm very picky about my tone. Swapped in the Custom....so far, I like it. It was late so I played at 1/2 live volume, I could hear that it was much clearer, yet had a soild crunch, cleans were nice too, I did hit a few full chords at volume and WOW, huge balls with tons of crunch and that clarity I was seeking. I'll crank it up and A/B it with the LP later today.

Was this with a Custom or Custom 5? Just want to be sure as a sound w/ huge balls, tones of crunch & clarity is just what I'm looking for out of my humbucker-tele.

 

[tone4days]

Re: My Schecter PT - What Next?

One Alnico 5 magnet, and the problem's fixed.

The difference it made was actually less than I expected, but it was enough to bring out the high end. It's not super jangly (but I have a real Tele for that). What it IS, is well-balanced. The skinny strings ring out better.

I now have a humbucker guitar that works with my rig.

BTW, it's wired with 2 volume pots, both push/pull: coil split on the bridge, and a phase switch. I really like both middle-position sounds; they're not all-the-time sounds, but they're both interesting & useful.

I still need to do some pickup-height tweaking, but we'll call the operation a success.

glad youre sorted, rich

i like the C5 quite a lot in the guitar i have it in (ibanez 540s - HSH)

 

[Rich_S]

Re: My Schecter PT - What Next?

Was this with a Custom or Custom 5? Just want to be sure as a sound w/ huge balls, tones of crunch & clarity is just what I'm looking for out of my humbucker-tele.

I think Butnut was going the other direction than me - he needed his HB Tele to sound more like a Les Paul and less like a Tele. I wanted the exact opposite.

However, keep in mind that his HB Tele is much different than mine. IIRC, his is mahogany with a set neck and rosewood board. Mine is alder, bolt neck, maple board.

Come to think of it, I had a Duncan Custom years ago in a Dean V (similar in materials & construction to Butnut's Tele) and I liked it. In my PT, I didn't like it, but the Custom 5 works fine.

 

[butnut]

Re: My Schecter PT - What Next?

Was this with a Custom or Custom 5? Just want to be sure as a sound w/ huge balls, tones of crunch & clarity is just what I'm looking for out of my humbucker-tele.

It's the Custom (ceramic) magnet. It's rude and has the cut, not as sweet as I'd like it but as a backup guit, it's all good now.
Yeah Rich, we were going for 2 diff things here, sorry to confuse anyone. Kinda wish I had my old Tele-Gib, the JB/Jazz combo was my fave tones....bet it would rock with the Bogner.