Please Help mE Choose?

[Armotron]

I am trying to choose a neck pup to install in my Basswood Guitar, RW neck, to go along with a JB in the bridge positon, I am looking to get good cleans and a nice bluesy hendrixy tone from it. If you have another recommendation please post and tell me.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Please Help mE Choose?

Hendrixy tone? APS 1 for single coil sizes, or Phat Cat in a humbucker size, though the PC will be a stretch on the Hendrix thing.

 

[Armotron]

Re: Please Help mE Choose?

would putting an aph in and splitting it be a good choice?

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Please Help mE Choose?

The APH sounds good split, but not really stratty. It's a bit weak when split.

 

[Armotron]

Re: Please Help mE Choose?

Hmm, well what pup would you recommend for a really sweet, bluesy tone in the neck?

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Please Help mE Choose?

Any of the pickups you mentioned will do it, but they're not exactlyt "Hendrixey".

My personal fave in the neck of a LP style axe is the Pearly Gates.
:burnout:

 

[Armotron]

Re: Please Help mE Choose?

hmm, but would the pearly get me really sweet blusey clean sounds? Because im just looking for really sweet, clean, bluesy, clean sounds from the neck pup with a good amount of midrange.

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Please Help mE Choose?

Any of the A2 mag neck buckers will get you in the range, and provide the sweet, cleaan, blusey sounds. PG, APH, Seth, Antiquity. I've had all of these except the Antiquity, and the PG splits the best IMO. The APH and the Seth are the sweetest, with the APH being slightly sweeter, and the Seth sounding slightly more open and a little "woodier". Hard to go wrong with any of them.

A5's tend to be a bit bright and boomy on the bottom end IMO, but that's just personal preference.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Please Help mE Choose?

None of those are what Hendrix used! None will get a true Hendrix neck pickup tone.

If you want to split a humbucker to get a single coil tone, I'd go for a 59N and JB set.

That's my favorite set for splitting and the set I feel has given me the best single coil tones when split...though you still won't sound like you're playing Jimi's Strat.

You need to get a Strat with three vintage style single coils such as the SSL-1 to sound like Hendrix or SRV.

Lew