Re: what sounds good in all-maple axes?
No, its a waste of time to take in account someones advice (I will mention names here, yours) That has had little expereince with Duncans lineup of pickups and also many different woods and first hand knowledge of all of them and how they work together. Of course, this same person (you) is in about every pickup advice thread throwing your opinion out there without a whole lot of first hand knowledge while talking out of your butt. Maybe you will get a "generic" suggestion from the tone wizard at times and post it but, this is of course "generic".
Bottom line, maple is not icepick bright like most of you guys on here think it is though, you guys still spew out this mis-information. Maple is maybe brighter than mahognay but, it aint nearly as bright as you folks seem to think it is. You are getting the word "opinion" mixed up with "mis-information" you have hear someone else say. Try it for yourself and you will see and hear the "facts" not, opinions at that point. Maple really needs to be viewed as what it typically is, "tight, focused, precise, balanced"
In closing, actually try something for yourself and try it throughly before shooting off your "opinions" that are usually false.
BTW TR, I stand firmly behind what I said in my previous thread.
I could care less what one person (you) think, when people I've learned to trust say otherwise. As for soft maple, I've tried it, I've tried it with classic stacks and JB, then with alnico II pro staggereds and a CC. I have first hand experience. Also, I refer to Alex from SD who says the same, whose advice I trusted, and who I proved right. The JB was an ice pick in that guitar. Call it a fluke, sure, but don't call me a liar. It doesn't make you look good.
Opinions are just opinions: you can't prove them right or wrong in an industry that is subjective. If you want to prove yourself tolerant, you could accept that some people in the thread have truly tried the combination. Otherwise, if you're just going to be a jerk, maybe you should have me in your ignore list. It exists because, unfortunately, we can't all be friends.
As for those saying the CC hasn't got tight bass (sorry), I can agree, but realize also that maple doesn't necessarily have tight bass (sorry) either. That combo together could sound like trash, but it depends. Case in point: I hated the JB in my Ibanez (soft maple body), but a friend of mine just dialed the amp treble down to 2 and thought the guitar was usable. Nice, but don't work for me if I change guitars mid-session. To him it sounds ok, to me it sounds like an ice pick. I give it to a different friend after swapping the JB for a CC, and he loves how it sounds, but hates the single coils, versus me and my other friend love the single coils in it.
There's no fact to this thread, only opinions. Everyone's amps, effects, guitars, wood samples, and ears are different.
EDIT: basically, what i'm saying is they asked for opinoins. Everyone's entitled to theirs. You don't have to like mine, but if you want to be fair and give yours, you should listen to other ones also.
EDIT2: and for what it's worth, I was playing guitar through the Peavy Delta Blues at the time, not the Twin Reverb. Besides which usually the treble on the TwinReverb was set to around 3, not 6 lol
