Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

[Frebnedzo]

Anyone have experience with both BRIDGE pickups
in a heavy mahogony guitar (Explorer, Epi LP). Would
PGn be a little more "vocal", cut a little more for leads?

thanks

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

I think the PG would have more of an open voice to the mids. Both GREAT GREAT pickups and you could not go wrong with either. Lew

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

I've had both in my Lester and I loved them both, but I ultimately kept the PG. The Seth is a great pickup with smooth highs and very cool "hollow" mids. I decided on the PG because it's a bit tighter and more aggressive.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

Need a quarter? May as well flip one. Heads = Seth, Tails = PG.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

I've had both in my Lester and I loved them both, but I ultimately kept the PG. The Seth is a great pickup with smooth highs and very cool "hollow" mids. I decided on the PG because it's a bit tighter and more aggressive.

Which had the least mids or the more open or airy quality to the mids? Lew

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

The Pearly Gates seems to let more of the guitar come through. The Seth chimes more, but the PG has more push in the upper mids which I feel helps it cut through better.

It's not that the PG has less mids than the Seth, it just has less low mids. It also has a bit less of the honk that a lot of PAF nuts value so.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

That sounds right to me. (The lower mids thing...) You threw me when you said the Seth had more of a hollow tone than the PG, because I hear the Seth as being thicker. More lower mids I guess...

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

I don't know how to explain it. I don't mean scooped like the C5 or 59. The Seth is a bit honkier than the PG. It's more of a feel thing I guess. It let's you shape a note by how you fret and pick it more easily than the PGb.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

I don't know how to explain it. I don't mean scooped like the C5 or 59. The Seth is a bit honkier than the PG. It's more of a feel thing I guess. It let's you shape a note by how you fret and pick it more easily than the PGb.

The coils are matched on the Seth and unmatched in the PG. Plus the Seth has a nickel cover...that's probably where some of the honk you're hearing is coming from. Lew

 

[Frebnedzo]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

The Pearly Gates seems to let more of the guitar come through. The Seth chimes more, but the PG has more push in the upper mids which I feel helps it cut through better.

It's not that the PG has less mids than the Seth, it just has less low mids. It also has a bit less of the honk that a lot of PAF nuts value so.

The "push in the upper mids...helps it cut through better" was what I
thought comparing them on the tone chart. Whatever, I'm getting Seth
set but was thinking that, if for some reason the bridge doesn't quite
cut that the PGb would be a nice tweak to keep in mind.

I think most of the chiminess on the Seth comes from it being
unpotted.

thanks

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

OK, I listened to some recordings I made and can finally explain what I was hearing. The PGb is a bit steely and the Seth is woody.

Yeah, that's what I meant. :burnout:

 

[Zappaso]

Re: Seth BRIDGE vs PG BRIDGE

Witch one gets closer to the 59 sound? Maybe the seth???