ferrinbonn
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I found a person selling a Pegasus that had never been used for a good price and I decided to pick it up and give it a shot. Spec wise, it looked appealing to me, but there is very little out there in the way of demos or reviews that aren't slanted toward progressive metal or other types of metal.
So here are my thoughts after a week of use. The music I play runs from stuff like The Stones through GnR, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, etc. So classic rock through alternative and hard rock. I put the pickup in a PRS McCarty 58. I originally had 57/08s in there which I didn't love (kind of bloated and not enough bite to them). I swapped them for a 59/Custom in the bridge and a Jazz Bridge in the neck position. I like the 59/Custom but I decided to swap it out for the Pegasus to give that a shot. I also have a LP, HSS Strat, and Tele with vintage style pickups in my stable and I thought it would be fun to have something on hand that was a bit more modern.
So far, I like it. What has surprised me the most is how extreme it didn't seem. With the way it's marketed I expected it to sound kind of out there for the types of music that I play, but it doesn't. It's very balanced. The output is semi hot, but not crazy. It splits well and actually has more single coil character than the 59/C did in this guitar (probably because PRS wires for a partial split so the already stronger split coil of the 59/C ends up being very strong). To my ears, the Pegasus has a very even frequency response. Good bass but not too much. The mids don't sound scooped or too prominent. The highs are clear but not overpowering. Both low rhythms and single notes high up the neck sound nice and balanced. It's just thick humbucker goodness in all positions. It sounds odd to say this, but I think this pickup's biggest strength is that it doesn't stick out too far in any one area. Balance is the strength.
Cleans are fine, although I generally don't play clean on the bridge pickup. Edge of breakup and low gain tones are fine, although I don't think they're the biggest strengths of this pickup. It cleans up well with the volume knob, although I don't like those tones as much as going flat out. This thing just eats up gain and I seem to be able to run the gain higher than I would expect. Since it doesn't have any weird mid spike or a shrill treble response, you can pour on the gain and it still sounds very good, and surprisingly to me, not overly aggressive for older styles of music.
So that's my 2 cents on this pickup for non-metal players. I hope this is helpful to people. Anybody else have similar experiences with this pickup?
So here are my thoughts after a week of use. The music I play runs from stuff like The Stones through GnR, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, etc. So classic rock through alternative and hard rock. I put the pickup in a PRS McCarty 58. I originally had 57/08s in there which I didn't love (kind of bloated and not enough bite to them). I swapped them for a 59/Custom in the bridge and a Jazz Bridge in the neck position. I like the 59/Custom but I decided to swap it out for the Pegasus to give that a shot. I also have a LP, HSS Strat, and Tele with vintage style pickups in my stable and I thought it would be fun to have something on hand that was a bit more modern.
So far, I like it. What has surprised me the most is how extreme it didn't seem. With the way it's marketed I expected it to sound kind of out there for the types of music that I play, but it doesn't. It's very balanced. The output is semi hot, but not crazy. It splits well and actually has more single coil character than the 59/C did in this guitar (probably because PRS wires for a partial split so the already stronger split coil of the 59/C ends up being very strong). To my ears, the Pegasus has a very even frequency response. Good bass but not too much. The mids don't sound scooped or too prominent. The highs are clear but not overpowering. Both low rhythms and single notes high up the neck sound nice and balanced. It's just thick humbucker goodness in all positions. It sounds odd to say this, but I think this pickup's biggest strength is that it doesn't stick out too far in any one area. Balance is the strength.
Cleans are fine, although I generally don't play clean on the bridge pickup. Edge of breakup and low gain tones are fine, although I don't think they're the biggest strengths of this pickup. It cleans up well with the volume knob, although I don't like those tones as much as going flat out. This thing just eats up gain and I seem to be able to run the gain higher than I would expect. Since it doesn't have any weird mid spike or a shrill treble response, you can pour on the gain and it still sounds very good, and surprisingly to me, not overly aggressive for older styles of music.
So that's my 2 cents on this pickup for non-metal players. I hope this is helpful to people. Anybody else have similar experiences with this pickup?
