What bridge HB for a very bright hard ash body strat?

Re: What bridge HB for a very bright hard ash body strat?

Thunder said:
If you really like the guitar try a 78'. I have one in my hard ash Strat that sounds fantastic! Cleans up well too!
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That's my favorite Duncan humbucker. But I'd save it for a guitar I loved.
 
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Thunder said:
If you really like the guitar try a 78'. I have one in my hard ash Strat that sounds fantastic! Cleans up well too!
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+1, I've got it in a Charvel Clone that Xssive built , ash body/rosewood neck , hardtail bridge and the 78 sounds really nice in there
 
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Before you give up and sell the body (and since you've gone through a fair amount of Duncans), PLEASE try a Dimarzio Air Zone or Tone Zone.
I prefer the Air Zone- but the TZ is great also. They both sound phenomenal when split.

Lone Phantom suggested the TZ also, and he is someone who demo's lots of pickups.
 
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Do you still have the 59/cc? Did you try it with an A2? If not, that might do the trick. I have a guitar that is giving me the same trouble (les paul style, though). I just took out a slash set
and replaced it with a 59/c with an A2 and I like this better. Good luck with this.
 
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orpheo said:
Pearly gates is a great pickup and might work but actually... The rtm is what you want...that pickup was made to combat harshness...

Otherwise superD...
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yeah, the RTM was what I was thinking of when I mentioned CS territory. someone just put it to me the other day that if they made the RTM a production model that it might put the JB out of business. lol! well, I'm not 100% on-board with that, but I think it's an awesome option for a guitar like this one.
 
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Air Zone/Tone Zone is great recommendation.
 
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I received some week ago a Super Distortion F spaced I'm planning to put it in my Jaguar, I didn't try it before in the strat because I thought it was too similar to the SD Custom, but it's in your advice list so it's an experiment at 0 price.
Then I think I'll try the Tone Zone or the AT-1. How do they differ in your opinion from the Super D and the SD Custom?

Thank you all
 
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marcello252 said:
I received some week ago a Super Distortion F spaced I'm planning to put it in my Jaguar, I didn't try it before in the strat because I thought it was too similar to the SD Custom, but it's in your advice list so it's an experiment at 0 price.
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Completely different animals. The Super D has substantially more low end. It is well known in Guitar mythology that the Ash Strat/Super D combination gives birth to epic events. I heard in the beginning of time, the soldering of the Super D into an Ash guitar caused the Big Bang and therefore created the universe. The second time someone did it, Van Halen I happened.
 
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9unslin9er said:
Completely different animals. The Super D has substantially more low end. It is well known in Guitar mythology that the Ash Strat/Super D combination gives birth to epic events. I heard in the beginning of time, the soldering of the Super D into an Ash guitar caused the Big Bang and therefore created the universe. The second time someone did it, Van Halen I happened.
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+1:scratchch Yes, I heard that lol!
 
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marcello252 said:
I'm getting a bit frustrated with my hard ash strat / rosewood neck at the point I'm thinking about getting rid off that body.

I' was looking for a good all around PU, especially with soft crunch to moderate higher gain, the tone you can still clean up with the volume pot.

I tried a number of HB in bridge position, installed for a while, enough to tune my ears (at least a couple of months), then changed them, here is the list:

- SD '59 nails on a chalckboard and a giant black hole sucking the mids
- GFS VEH grammy award for the worst interaction wood / pickup ever
- SD A2P too much bright, output level too low
- SD JB screaming mid high, like a hammer on an anvil
- SD CC middy, strange bass, I'd say clumsy
- SD Custom too much dry, lifeless, like sandpaper on iron on highs
- '59/CC hybrid nor fish nor flesh, uninspiring

I tried every thing with 500K and 250K vol pot.

Any idea before selling the body or using as a fireplace log?
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It sounds like nothing will make you happy, so how about just having a pickguard made that covers the hole for the bridge humbucker. Problem solved by way of elimination.
 
Re: What bridge HB for a very bright hard ash body strat?

ItsaBass said:
It sounds like nothing will make you happy, so how about just having a pickguard made that covers the hole for the bridge humbucker. Problem solved by way of elimination.
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A pretty extreme solution, indeed :D
 
Re: What bridge HB for a very bright hard ash body strat?

Tried the Super Distortion. I'ts definitely the guitar, I'll sell in pieces.

thank you all
bye
 
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