Sound Chooser - Korina body

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bijo699

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hello.
first - i must say that i've installed the seths on my PRS and the sound is amazing - thank you all for the recommendations.

i am building a guitar that looks like music man van halen and i need some tone help.

The body will be korina (black) and a maple neck.
I want a sweet warm sound , not too "heavy metal" sound but also not too bright.

i want different pickups from what i got on my other guitars :
1. fender custom with active EMG HSS (alder body , maple neck , rosewood fretboard)
2. fender custom with slash alnico 2 humbuckers (walnut body , maple neck)
3. prs with seth lover humbuckers
4. gibson studio 2014 with 489-490 humbuckers

i was thinking about putting singles with "humbucker power" like hot rails , quarter pound ... or again , a good warm humbucker but of course different for different sound...

please advice.
 
Re: Sound Chooser - Korina body

Korina is like mahogany tonally, but with a more singing midrange (supposedly). You'll probably have a decent amount of body to the tone via the korina, with some definition due to the neck.....so balanced I'd say generally speaking.

Most of your pickups seem low output, so maybe something mid output - the perpetual burn is a possibility.....with perhaps some humbuckers in singlecoil size for the other one/two. I've got a lil 59 which is quite nice tonally, as well as a rails pickup like the coolrails. Both of these will keep up with the bridge and suffer no annoying volume disparity switching between them.
 
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Not tried them, but they are another PAF type pickup. Obviously a good one with some more vintage specs, but similar in nature to what you have already with the Seths. As you were perhaps looking for something different it wouldn't be a choice for that necessarily.
 
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well i am looking for different sound but still closer to what i have , and i am afraid that 3 singles will be too bright and too weak .
also if i am building a music man style guitar i am not sure the singles will look good on the body.
 
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I didn't suggest 3 singles, but an HSS. And the both of the single sized humbucker i suggested (the lil 59 and cool rails) have probably slightly more output than your idea of the BKP's.

The perpetual burn is about 12K I think. It was designed to have some of the sweet soling tone of the JB, but with more clarity and less annoying mid spike.
 
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Re: Sound Chooser - Korina body

Limba to me can sound a bit acoustic like to me. I prefer a pickup with enough low mids in it. (I own 3 Limba guitars) There is a reason p90s are a very popular choice in Limba. However, IMO the neck is where a lot of your tonality comes from. I would suggest a pickup with plenty of lows and low mids.
 
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Something perhaps p90 flavored?

I am not really sure what form factor you are using, so not sure what style you can fit in. I would suggest a thick sounding pickup, though. Limba can be tricky.
 
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How about Parallel Axis lines? Could be ...
PATB3b - PASTK1n
PATB3b - PASTK1m - PASTK1n
PATB3b - PASTK1m - PATB1n
PATB3b - PATB1n

or P-90 flavour like Phat Cat set or Vintage Soapbar set

or mixed combo like PATB3b - Phat Cat n or P-90 bridge with Firebird mini neck
 
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Given the collection at hand I would probably move toward a P90, at least in the neck.

Really, the bridge matters so much and although you stated the wood for the other guitars you didn't give the bridge type. There should be something hardtail with PAFs and I dunno whether the PRS has a trem. But you seem happy with it.
 
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uOpt said:
Given the collection at hand I would probably move toward a P90, at least in the neck.

Really, the bridge matters so much and although you stated the wood for the other guitars you didn't give the bridge type. There should be something hardtail with PAFs and I dunno whether the PRS has a trem. But you seem happy with it.
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sorry for the question - is it important ? the bridge style ?

on my 2 custom fenders i user wilkinson vs100
the gibson has Tune-o-Matic with stop bar like most gibson i think

the prs will soon be also wilkinson and the new custom musicman/suhr style will be also the same.

this is my favorite bridge - i remove the small handle and almost dont use it while playing , only on rare occasions .
 
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Yeah, a tremolo with a sustain block will always cut a hole hole in the bottom end of the guitar's sound (even when decked or blocked hard), but not necessarily in a bad way, I actually prefer it that way. Just for starters the problem of overly boomy neck pickups is gone. It also changes how the sustain works out (well, it's a sustain block, and it doesn't change the length of the sustain, but the character). I have come to strongly prefer trem block guitars, to the point where I might trade a Les Paul for a PRS single cut with short scale and with tremolo.

That is one reason why I think these sound guides that use wood type are completely silly. The bridge type has a large impact. Rosewood versus maple fretboard has very little by comparison. And mahogany can be all over the place. There are many different species of mahogany, and even within the same species the sound varies from being brighter than alder to being very dark. Then there is the "maple top". Well, is it a thick piece of carved maple (LP) or is it a thin veneer? The latter does almost nothing maple-ish, it just solidifies the sound a bit which is probably a result of the lamination (a glued on layer) and has nothing to do with the wood type you put on.
 
Re: Sound Chooser - Korina body

ok ! thanks for the excellent answer !

i porbably use black korina musicman/suhr style body - i am not sure about the neck yet

but i will use wilkinson and i want warm sound with great sustain.

:-)
 
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Well I would say Pearly gates then but if you already have a PRS with a trem and the Seths they might be too close given both have variants of mahogany for body wood.
 
Re: Sound Chooser - Korina body

uOpt said:
Given the collection at hand I would probably move toward a P90, at least in the neck.

Really, the bridge matters so much and although you stated the wood for the other guitars you didn't give the bridge type. There should be something hardtail with PAFs and I dunno whether the PRS has a trem. But you seem happy with it.
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I agree with the P90 suggestion (maybe a phat cat if it's routed for a hum bucker). I played a PRS Korina once with P90's (waaaayyyy out of my price range). It sounded fantastic. I think Korina and P90s are a great match.
 
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voggin said:
I agree with the P90 suggestion (maybe a phat cat if it's routed for a hum bucker). I played a PRS Korina once with P90's (waaaayyyy out of my price range). It sounded fantastic. I think Korina and P90s are a great match.
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ok i will check the p90 idea...
and what about 3 singles - SD - hot rails and cool rails ?
what the sound should be ?
 
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