Pegasus and Sentient on a semi-hollow guitar body

[Shinigami]

Hi Folks,

Just as the title says...do you think it could be interesting or just not so good?

For my next project I'll have a Tele body with flame maple top (as thick as half the body itself...) and alder body, semi hollow with 2 nice Fs and the neck will be flamed koa with mexican ebony fingerboard.

I used to have the Sentient on another guitar and the clean tone was really nice and the Pegasus looks like a perfect match.

I'm planning to have this guitar as versatile as possible and both pickups will have a mini switch to either coil tap or serial/parallel options.

Any idea or suggestions?

Many thanks

 

[blueman335]

Re: Pegasus and Sentient on a semi-hollow guitar body

What kind of music are you playing?

 

[Nostalgic Distortion]

Re: Pegasus and Sentient on a semi-hollow guitar body

That's a terrible idea! Not trying to be a d*** but I've got quite a bit of experience with the Pegasus/Sentient set. I've got 3 guitars set up with a Pegasus in the bridge and two of them have a Sentients in the neck, the other is a single humbucker guitar? I'm not a expert on them but I've got a pretty good handle on their characteristics. I had to work really hard to make them sound good in a Strat, a lot of trial and error, swapping pots, caps, exe?

The Sentient may be alright as a neck-bucker in a hollow body, although I can think of dozens of better options, but the Pegasus will most likely sound awful? It is a moderate output pickup but it behaves like a very high output pickup, if that makes any sense? They won't turn your hollow body into a shredder, it will just sound shrill & piercing! If you want a metal capable hollow body I'd go with something hot from the 59 family and perhaps just a 59N for the neck? Like I said the Sentient might sound okay but it's a very, I don't know, "glassy" sounding humbucker? It's beautiful in a darker sounding solid body but there's just so many better options for you out there that I'd just stay away from them until you have a more appropriate shell to put them into?

 

[Shinigami]

Re: Pegasus and Sentient on a semi-hollow guitar body

I used to have a Sentient neck coupled with a perpetual burn on a crappy chinese guitar and to be fair they sounded really good.

I'm not planning to turn this project into a shredding guitar (I've got a 1992 Fender Strart HM and an Ibanez RG465M for that purpose), it needs to be more versatile but mainly oriented towards rock/fusion and jazz. My idea of using Duncans is because Ive got Dimarzios on my 1st project (PAF 36th ed with Fast Track) which sound great, on the second project (which is almost completed) I'll be fitting the same Kiesel pickups mounted on the Kiesel Greg Howe model so for this 3rd project I wanted something different

Both bridge and neck pickups need to have 4 wires for custom wiring

 

[blueman335]

Re: Pegasus and Sentient on a semi-hollow guitar body

I'd be looking at PAF type PU's, like A2P's.

 

[Myaccount876]

Re: Pegasus and Sentient on a semi-hollow guitar body

Honestly, if you liked the Sentient in the neck, you'll probably like the Pegasus. It's supposed to be pretty "clean" as in lots of note separation, whether under high gain or clean. It also is supposed to have a pretty neutral EQ.

Also, 21-day exchange policy if you're in the US. If you don't like them, you can exchange them for something else.

 

[Demanic]

Re: Pegasus and Sentient on a semi-hollow guitar body

^^
+1 to this. I've never heard of anyone using them in a semi-hollow. But then that's no reason not to try them. After all, if you need to tame down the top end, you have tone knobs.

 

[Gibson 1964]

Re: Pegasus and Sentient on a semi-hollow guitar body

I also wouldn't call a thinline tele a hollowbody. It is a semi, and generally, has a different tonal signature than a solid body, one I would not describe as brighter than a solid body.