MikeRocker
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Hello, sorry if this question has been asked before, but I did a search and didn't find anything that answered my question...
I am building a Strat-style baritone guitar out of Warmoth parts with a maple neck and a swamp ash body with a nitrocellulose lacquer finish, and a vintage-style six hole Wilkinson vibrato. For the neck and middle pickups, I plan to use Duncan SSL-1s, but need some advice for the bridge. I am very familiar with how different pickups sound on a standard tuned guitar, but am not sure how they will react on a guitar tuned down to B-B. The bridge pickup cavity is routed to fit a single coil, humbucker, or P-90. The sound I am after is straightforward rock & roll to be used clean or with a bit of overdrive, played through a Fender amp. I am NOT looking for a distorted, chugging heavy metal sound. Think musically along the lines of Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Brian Setzer, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty - more of a classic, vintage sound. I'm just not sure how any of these pickups will react to a guitar tuned this low, for example if a humbucker will be too dull and muddy sounding, causing the baritone to clash with the bass guitar, or if a single coil will be too harsh, or if the P-90 will be too fat and dull sounding. Or maybe all lipstick tubes is the way to go!
Any suggestions and specific pickup model recommendations are greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Mike
I am building a Strat-style baritone guitar out of Warmoth parts with a maple neck and a swamp ash body with a nitrocellulose lacquer finish, and a vintage-style six hole Wilkinson vibrato. For the neck and middle pickups, I plan to use Duncan SSL-1s, but need some advice for the bridge. I am very familiar with how different pickups sound on a standard tuned guitar, but am not sure how they will react on a guitar tuned down to B-B. The bridge pickup cavity is routed to fit a single coil, humbucker, or P-90. The sound I am after is straightforward rock & roll to be used clean or with a bit of overdrive, played through a Fender amp. I am NOT looking for a distorted, chugging heavy metal sound. Think musically along the lines of Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Brian Setzer, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty - more of a classic, vintage sound. I'm just not sure how any of these pickups will react to a guitar tuned this low, for example if a humbucker will be too dull and muddy sounding, causing the baritone to clash with the bass guitar, or if a single coil will be too harsh, or if the P-90 will be too fat and dull sounding. Or maybe all lipstick tubes is the way to go!
Any suggestions and specific pickup model recommendations are greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Mike
