Output of Custom Custom

[Mac-P]

If you look at the Tone chart is cleary indicates that the Custom Custom has less output than the any of the other customs (Custom, C5) as well as the JB, etc.

As a matter of fact, it looks like the output is similar to the Jazz.

The pickup is supposed to measure at over 14k, so what is the deal?

Does the alnico ll magnet really result in such a drop in output?

Does the pickup have the potential to be underpowered in the bridge slot?

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Output of Custom Custom

The CC is not underpowerd at all. I can't explain the "why" of the charts, but I have had the CC in three guitars and currently have it in both of my Hamer Monocos. It has plenty of output. It's at least as strong or stronger than the 59B and seems to me to be about as strong as the C5. Lew

 

[fenderiarhs]

Re: Output of Custom Custom

it is not a high output pickup but neither a low output......somewhere in the middle(medium-high)
it has lower output than the JB or the custom, same as the C5, and much higher that a 59........i have noticed the thing you mentioned about the tone chart and it must be a mistake.

 

[Stevo]

Re: Output of Custom Custom

The CC has plenty of output. I think the res-freq makes the difference because it is focussed on a bandwidth that the guitar naturally jives with.

 

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

Re: Output of Custom Custom

Man
i use the CUSTOM CUSTOM, IT ****ING RULES.
IT DILACERATING MY AMP(I PLAY THROUGH THE COMPUTER SPEAKERS, AHAHAH)
ahahahah that is a lot of OUTPUT, less than a duncan distortion.

 

[Mac-P]

Re: Output of Custom Custom

it is not a high output pickup but neither a low output......somewhere in the middle(medium-high)
it has lower output than the JB or the custom, same as the C5, and much higher that a 59........i have noticed the thing you mentioned about the tone chart and it must be a mistake.

WELL, that "mistake" in the tone chart has been there for years!

Yo, Seymour, what gives?

 

[EVH5150]

Re: Output of Custom Custom

I wouldn't base my decision on the Custom Custom on what is written in print but more in the sound that comes out of your amp. This pickup has a great full balanced sound that seems to grow and expand the more you overdrive it. Think of your pickup as a stereo....you can turn a cheap stereo up loud and it distorts, sounds like hell and looses it's shape....but you can take a good stereo and turn it up and it keeps it's form and seems to stay balanced as the volume increases. The Custom Custom isn't a kill pickup by any means but you can make it one by using effects and amp settings....it won't disappoint you in this aspect or with lack of balls. It also can be played clean at lower or higher volumes and give you a defined tone that chimes. You really need to try one and let your ears be the judge and not it's specs and proposed output. The first time I tried it in my strat....I knew it was the sound that I had been searching for. In an alder strat...I dont think any pickup can touch it in the humbucker class.

 

[Rocker35]

Re: Output of Custom Custom

it is not a high output pickup but neither a low output......somewhere in the middle(medium-high)
it has lower output than the JB or the custom, same as the C5, and much higher that a 59........i have noticed the thing you mentioned about the tone chart and it must be a mistake.

I'd pretty much go along with that, although I wouldn't have said that the output is much higher than a 59. It's definately lower than a Custom.

 

[Kent S.]

Re: Output of Custom Custom

The CC has plenty of output. I think the res-freq makes the difference because it is focussed on a bandwidth that the guitar naturally jives with.

That's kinda what I was thinking, as our ears hear mids easier, and most highs and lows tend to get lost in the amp in overdrive anyway, the highs create harmonics, and the lows if too much turn to mud. That's the only way I could see to possibly explain it.It strikes me as being a medium high in terms of output. Cleans up nice to in an ash body/ maple fingerboard, the richness in the mids balances out that upper end, and thinner body.