i decided to swap out a lot of pickups. Some guitars have great pickups but they dont work in that guitar and others just plain and simple suck. Here's the list
My 59 clone. Same woods (honduras mahogany and brazilian rosewood). Same construction. Slightly different looks (nodgr to marc bolan). It had a super70 in the bridge and a schaller pickup with a ridiculous name i keep forgetting. Golden fifties or something... Too bright, too jangly. The neck is a screaming demon and the bridge is a blues saraceno. Awesome sounds.
Single piece padouk on single piece wenge with a padouk neck and ebony board. X2n/invader hybrid bridge and a 59 in the neck. I will swap out the huge cap polepieces for superdistortion style polepieces for more brightness and bite. But the tone is already majestic. Thick and clear, hot and articulated. The pickup roars but should scream in stead...
My trusty charvel. I own her the shortest of the bunch but i am already attached to her. The pickups were the tonezone and evo neck. In this guitar the tone became a bit 'congestrd'. Mushy even. With a mag swap, half air mod and baseplate change i still wasnt happy. Now its a duncan distortion/superdistortion hybrid in the bridge and an alnico2pro in the neck. Much better. Its more open. Clearer. Tighter. The old DMZ set is in another strat and strangely enough that guitar came with duncans and sounded deadish and came alive with the dmz.'s.
My new joy. I swapped the old thin wenge neck for a Thick bubinga. No matter what i give this guitar, EVERYTHING sounds great. New neck?! Fine! New pickups? Bring it on! I wanted this guitar to have a fatter sound yet retaining a lot of clarity bite and crunch. Also, i loathed the thin neck on this one. The guitar i will show next had a thick neck and i didnt like that guitar at all. No particular reason. The playability is amazing, the tone is like les pauls of the 80ies: think Ace and Motley and you're getting the pickture. So... Bright bubinga and fat pickups in lightweight mahogany with a hard maple cap.. Yeah that did tge trick. Amazing sustain. Its by the way a patb1/patb2 alnico8 hybrid...
Walnut top on walnut back. Ebony board on thin wenge. The lows are insanely tight. The mids are crunchy and slightly scooped yet howling. Sorry for the lack of a better term. the highs are super aggressive but not ice picky. The 70ies superD (with a cover, not soldered just pushed in place for looks and added feedback) and the wenge neck attenuate the highs. Sounds and plays sick. I just dont like the guitar. Dont know why.
I love thus guitar though. Koa on lightweight single piece mahogany with a purpleheart neck. Patb2/fullshred hybrid set. A5 in neck. A8 bridge. Through my marshall its like reb beach. Warm. Aggressive. Bitey. Throaty. One of the best sounding and playung guitars i have.
I swapped out more but pics for those have to wait till i'm back from work...what about a super distortion/distortion hybrid with a gold cover in a les paul or a burned aubergine finish on a singlepiece flamed maple top?
My 59 clone. Same woods (honduras mahogany and brazilian rosewood). Same construction. Slightly different looks (nodgr to marc bolan). It had a super70 in the bridge and a schaller pickup with a ridiculous name i keep forgetting. Golden fifties or something... Too bright, too jangly. The neck is a screaming demon and the bridge is a blues saraceno. Awesome sounds.
Single piece padouk on single piece wenge with a padouk neck and ebony board. X2n/invader hybrid bridge and a 59 in the neck. I will swap out the huge cap polepieces for superdistortion style polepieces for more brightness and bite. But the tone is already majestic. Thick and clear, hot and articulated. The pickup roars but should scream in stead...
My trusty charvel. I own her the shortest of the bunch but i am already attached to her. The pickups were the tonezone and evo neck. In this guitar the tone became a bit 'congestrd'. Mushy even. With a mag swap, half air mod and baseplate change i still wasnt happy. Now its a duncan distortion/superdistortion hybrid in the bridge and an alnico2pro in the neck. Much better. Its more open. Clearer. Tighter. The old DMZ set is in another strat and strangely enough that guitar came with duncans and sounded deadish and came alive with the dmz.'s.
My new joy. I swapped the old thin wenge neck for a Thick bubinga. No matter what i give this guitar, EVERYTHING sounds great. New neck?! Fine! New pickups? Bring it on! I wanted this guitar to have a fatter sound yet retaining a lot of clarity bite and crunch. Also, i loathed the thin neck on this one. The guitar i will show next had a thick neck and i didnt like that guitar at all. No particular reason. The playability is amazing, the tone is like les pauls of the 80ies: think Ace and Motley and you're getting the pickture. So... Bright bubinga and fat pickups in lightweight mahogany with a hard maple cap.. Yeah that did tge trick. Amazing sustain. Its by the way a patb1/patb2 alnico8 hybrid...
Walnut top on walnut back. Ebony board on thin wenge. The lows are insanely tight. The mids are crunchy and slightly scooped yet howling. Sorry for the lack of a better term. the highs are super aggressive but not ice picky. The 70ies superD (with a cover, not soldered just pushed in place for looks and added feedback) and the wenge neck attenuate the highs. Sounds and plays sick. I just dont like the guitar. Dont know why.
I love thus guitar though. Koa on lightweight single piece mahogany with a purpleheart neck. Patb2/fullshred hybrid set. A5 in neck. A8 bridge. Through my marshall its like reb beach. Warm. Aggressive. Bitey. Throaty. One of the best sounding and playung guitars i have.
I swapped out more but pics for those have to wait till i'm back from work...what about a super distortion/distortion hybrid with a gold cover in a les paul or a burned aubergine finish on a singlepiece flamed maple top?
