mindbender
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I've posted before about this Signature Odyssey guitar that I have...came stock with Evans pickups. The bridge was thin sounding, low output. I wanted something hotter with more mids. A C5 came close, but not enough high (or low) end. Then I put in the Steve's Special, same thing: a little better than the C5 (though quite similar) but still not enough high end. I'm coming to the conclusion that this must be a very dark sounding guitar, if anything a very MID heavy guitar. I believe it's alder body with maple cap, oak neck with ebony fretboard. Weird combination, what? I like the 'open-ness' of the original Evans with the highs and lows, but it lacked mids and it wasn't hot enough to match my other guitars. If I could put a stronger magnet in the Evans I'd give that a try to boost mids and output, but it's one of those completely sealed pickups, doesn't look like you could open it up, plus I think a ceramic mag might take the already piercing highs over the top. I'm running out of pickups to try, plus I've already ruined two pickups by drilling holes in the baseplate because the pickups in this guitar are direct mounted. ANy suggestions?
