Re: Pearly Gates Bridge/Distortion Neck: Good or Bad combo
hey tell your friend not to do this. listen I have done somthing similer like this and I learned the hard way. the neck pickup becouse its hotter will steal pickup sustain away from the bridge pickup becouse its hotter magnets will jack up the string vibration that the bridge is trying to amplify. so you will lose sustain or have kind of an early drop off on a note or power chord by as much as 20 to 30%. its damned annoying trust me, I have done this in the past. we even lowered the hotter neck pickup down as far as it would go and I still lost some sustain on the bridge pickup. then some luthier suggested that I put a cover over the neck pickup to mute it and I thought Mute it? that will kill my neck tone. if he's gunna you'se that pg in the bridge (good choice of pickup i luv um) try to get a neck pick up thats not to much over 7 to 7.5 -----has anyone else done this, maybe some body has come up with a solution. anyway tone wise the neck will over power the bridge becouse its hotter.
