need some help! on bridge pup

[yerkool]

Hey All I'm a noob to the SD forum, and I wanna apologize ahead if this question has been ask a million times before..

I have a Warmoth Swamp Ash Strat Body and it weight in at about 3.14 pounds, routed for HSS, the neck is maple and maple fingerboard. My Bridge is the usual Vintage tremolo
with a steel block. I play lots of Hard Rock,Blues Rock,Funk Heavy Rock, I want mean Rhythm Sound and thick mid solos without having to use
pedals. For what I'm looking for, what Seymour Duncan humbucker in the Bridge would work well for what I'm describing....

thanks in advance

 

[TVFV]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

Custom Custom



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[Mincer]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

I agree- the Custom Custom will bring those mids back, and it is a pickup that works well in Strats for almost all kinds of music except very tight chuggy metal.

 

[Demanic]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

+1.

 

[yerkool]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

thank you guys, anybody want to chime in, feel free..

 

[OsvyRock]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

Hey All I'm a noob to the SD forum, and I wanna apologize ahead if this question has been ask a million times before..

I have a Warmoth Swamp Ash Strat Body and it weight in at about 3.14 pounds, routed for HSS, the neck is maple and maple fingerboard. My Bridge is the usual Vintage tremolo
with a steel block. I play lots of Hard Rock,Blues Rock,Funk Heavy Rock, I want mean Rhythm Sound and thick mid solos without having to use
pedals. For what I'm looking for, what Seymour Duncan humbucker in the Bridge would work well for what I'm describing....

thanks in advance

The JB! (Find a TB-4 Model)

 

[yerkool]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

OsvyRock, Thank you Brutha! JB seems to be the one screaming at me as I have been diligently doing a month long research over this situation.

I have been giggen live on a weekly basis with an Alder Strat Body type, maple neck maple fretboard , for over three and a half decades and this year was the first year I switch to SWAMP ASH.
So, I do feel like a noob all over again. I have been swapping different brands of p-ups, tho handful sound good, its still not up to my taste for what I'm hearing in a live dynamics situation.

Places to play these days much rather have the guitar players go FOH/IEM, wedges. During the last three years, I have been ampless and just using Helix, and now I'm using the new BOSS GT1000 which I think captures that amp feel responsiveness and sounds a lot better than helix IMO. Anyways this is where I'm at, so keep chiming in guys...

 

[Mark Cearlock]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

Another vote for the custom custom.. It should be a nice balance with the swamp ash body as others have stated..

 

[PDC]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

I just started a new thread having installed the TB version of the ‘Custom Custom’ in my Warmoth Roasted Swamp Ash partscaster. It’s a single pickup guitar with a Hipshot 2-post trem and locking tuners. I had an EMG 57 in there that honestly sounded really good, but I have recently decided to go back to passive pickups. To my ears, the Alnico TB-11 is just a bit ‘soft’ on the low end. I find the Roasted Swamp Ash has the same general characteristics as Basswood. I am thinking the ceramic magnet Custom (SH-5 / TB-5) might be a bit tighter in the very warm, dark Swamp Ash body...

 

[Mr. B]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

So what pickup is it that you have been gigging with for over 30 years?

 

[yerkool]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

Standard Dimarzio PAF and Dimarzio PAF Pro, both of these are my go to Bridge p-ups, they work well on alder bodies. I did try the Fred and the Tone Zone but they both have some unnecessary
.mid honk to it that's kinda annoying. My single coils for the mid and neck were pretty much Dimarzio virtual vintage stuff pretty much all are vintage wound and vintage outputs. I did gig with The Seymour duncan JB TB4 many years ago, installed on alder for bridge position it did sound great on my marshall but I took it off when I went Boogie Rectifiers for almost 10 years cause it got too muddy..

The new technology of software amplifiers, downloading apps, plug ins, floorboard modelers, such as kempers,helix,Rack 11, going direct to FOH/IEM etc.. and now the new Boss GT1000 are throwing guitar playing into a whole different realm and on top of that, were gonna have to learn to be an IT guy at the same time! anyways thats my deal...

 

[yerkool]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

so how did the CC sounded on your roasted Warmoth Swamp Ash?

 

[Mincer]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

I love the CC in swamp ash, but I am not looking for a very present low end. You can swap out the magnet for a ceramic and you get a Custom. Or swap it out for an Alnico 5 and get a Custom 5. Low end for days. Nothing about the Custom Custom's description or EQ would describe it as having a lot of lows.

 

[PDC]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

FWIW I just swapped the TB-5 (Ceramic) from my Alder guitar into the Swamp Ash guitar and put the TB-11 with the Alnico magnet in my Alder guitar. Much better combo to my ears. The ceramic magnet helped to tighten up what I heard as kind of soft, loose low end in the Swamp Ash guitar. At the same time, the Alder guitar still sounds full and tight on the low end with the Alnico TB-11, but the unwound strings and higher positions sound a little smoother and easier on the ears. These are really great pickups - great balance of lows/mids/highs and output. I really like having the same wind with Alnico and Ceramic options to compliment different guitars.

 

[yerkool]

Re: need some help! on bridge pup

I love the CC in swamp ash, but I am not looking for a very present low end. You can swap out the magnet for a ceramic and you get a Custom. Or swap it out for an Alnico 5 and get a Custom 5. Low end for days. Nothing about the Custom Custom's description or EQ would describe it as having a lot of lows.

thank you good to know, my swamp ash can use some serious low end, low mids. It has great mean mids,sweet high's and mid high's, I definitely will not have time to swap magnets tho..