NPD: Full Shred Neck

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I got the Full Shred neck a couple of months ago in order to replace my Distortion Neck in my Charvel SoCal 2014. The DD neck is not a bad pickup, it was just too much punchy and thick sounding and I really like a more open and versatile sound out of the neck position as I had been a HSS strat guy since 1998. I finally got the chance to play with it at rehearsal yesterday and boy what a big difference, it is not just a nice open sounding pickup for leads (which I enjoyed a lot) but IMHO a nice pickup for clean and crunchy rhythm. It was "covers" rehearsal so we played from reggae to metal (no, I not play djent) and this pickup has that single coil-ish quality to it that I have liked from the STK-S6 in the neck position I am currently using (again) in my HSS strat, specially when clean and light crunch, when using high gain it is when this pickup really differentiates and does not sound that much if a single coil-ish tone to me but close enough to enjoy it. And I also added an SSL-1 in the middle, I got a usable quack at of the in between with auto split of the duncan shred.

I know, playing alone in your bedroom you may say "it does not sound that versatile to me", but in the mix of the band with the drums, bass and the singer the Duncan Distortion bridge and the Full Shred neck combo was good and versatile enough for me. I sill have the old JB/Jazz set that I had used in my old strat, I did not try the Jazz because I remember it was missing something to enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed the Full Shred neck so far. Maybe I should try the JB/Jazz combo in the Charvel, that strat is Poplar+Rosewood while the Charvel is Alder+Maple.

 

[Mincer]

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Thanks for the review! The Full Shred just works for some music, especially if you hate the 'muddy neck pickup' sound.

 

[Bodeanicus]

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Just a personal anecdote, just neck Full Shreds sound good in the bridge of a Paul.

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[Rex_Rocker]

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I've always wondered how the Full Shred neck would compare to a PAF Pro.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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I love the Full Shred neck. It cuts, and it's articulate, but it has a kind of sweetness to it. Kind of like Mark Twain.

 

[LtKojak]

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The Full Shred neck is a slightly underwound '59n, with two screw bobbins and short hex screws.

I love it with flush-cut-baseplate filister screws and either A3 for max clarity in complicated chordwork in Jazz and Blues or A4 for best tone that can be used to play just about any style of music known to mankind, except for the most extreme obnoxious subgenres of Modern Metal.

HTH,

 

[Demanic]

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I bet that the A4 version would work just fine for those obnoxious sub genres too

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[IMENATOR]

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The Full Shred neck is a slightly underwound '59n, with two screw bobbins and short hex screws.

I love it with flush-cut-baseplate filister screws and either A3 for max clarity in complicated chordwork in Jazz and Blues or A4 for best tone that can be used to play just about any style of music known to mankind, except for the most extreme obnoxious subgenres of Modern Metal.

HTH,

Really? I remember reading someone in this forum saying it is a Jazz with Allen screws. In the end I don't really care that much, it is a nice versatile pickup.

And what do you mean by "flush-cut-baseplate filister screws"? I got lost in translation, english is not my native language.

 

[LtKojak]

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what do you mean by "flush-cut-baseplate filister screws"? I got lost in translation, english is not my native language.

Quiere decir que los tornillos (screws) usados en las pastillas vintage, llamados "Filister", son cortados al nivel de la base de la pastilla (flush-cut-baseplate).

Espero que ahora todo sea màs claro para vos, hermano mexicano.

 

[IMENATOR]

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Quiere decir que los tornillos (screws) usados en las pastillas vintage, llamados "Filister", son cortados al nivel de la base de la pastilla (flush-cut-baseplate).

Espero que ahora todo sea màs claro para vos, hermano mexicano.

Pos pa que te digo que no si si