sh-5 custom Mag question

[GuitarDoc]

Re: sh-5 custom Mag question

I wonder what a UOA5 would sound like in a custom?

Somewhere between a Custom 5 and a Custom Custom (C2).

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: sh-5 custom Mag question

^ Well, ceramic typically has a slightly scooped tone in the Custom, but plenty of aggressive top-end and tight bass.

The only way you might get more 'attack' is that its the mids or part thereof you are missing. Usually attack is something not missing from Ceramic.

Absolutely correct!

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: sh-5 custom Mag question

Custom Family:

Ceramic = Custom; Tight bass, screaming highs, good mids, hot hot hot
A5 = Custom; bass, super-scooped mids, highs, hot. (Not essentially, EXACTLY a C5)
A2 = Custom Custom; loose bass, mega-mid boost, fat highs, hot but doesn't feel like it
A8 = Custom 8; Tighter bottom than CC, middle of the road mids between C5 and C, fat but cutting highs vs C5, a thicker, more even sounding, but powerful custom gfamily member. hot hot

Totally agree with this assessment.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: sh-5 custom Mag question

Perhaps muddy isn't that right word. Just doesnt have the attack that I like might be a better way to describe it.

The Custom doesn't have ATTACK?!! It's "muddy" and "doesn't have attack"...are you sure you have the Custom with ceramic mag?? Is it possible you have the CC (with A2)? Because that is more what you are describing.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: sh-5 custom Mag question

The custom 5 is too scooped while I find the JB too compressed for my taste. You can not go wrong with the C8. It has too much of everything.

Yes, C8 for the win.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: sh-5 custom Mag question

You already have a couple magnets on hand. Try the A8 first. I think it will give you everything you want. In your guitar the A5 may sound too scooped and bright.

Dave's suggestion for the A2 magnet is reasonable and you may end up with that one, but you have the A8, and I think you will be happy with that one, so go for it.

The C8 is one of my very favorite bridge pups. It can do just about anything and make a wimpy guitar sound like a god.