Why are Livewire Classic Humbuckers so bright?

brisk

brisk

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I really can't understand why they are voiced so bright and thin. If you have an exprience, tell me how you use them.
 
Re: Why are Livewire Classic Humbuckers so bright?

like brighter than a 59?
 
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brisk said:
There is no love here.
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i love ya buddy, just not sure what to tell ya.

the ones that i tried were all in the neck position and bright but not that bright
 
Re: Why are Livewire Classic Humbuckers so bright?

I'm going to take a shot in the dark here, but a regular pickup is a very low power device, trying to drive a long, capacitive cable. An active pup has a buffered output and can drive a guitar cable with much less loss of highs. Its possible that you're just hearing the lack of the high-frequency filter that is a guitar cable.
 
Re: Why are Livewire Classic Humbuckers so bright?

are you using it in the neck? i think its meant to be used in the neck in conjunction with the LW heavy metal.
 
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rashayritto said:
are you using it in the neck? i think its meant to be used in the neck in conjunction with the LW heavy metal.
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I have both neck and bridge pickups. I also have a livewire metal.

If you ask my opinion, I will not use classic neck and metal bridge because they are totally mismatch in terms of output level. Think SSL1 in neck and Invader in bridge X 1000. I'd rather use LW metal in a single humbucker guitar.

The HC review also somehow confirms my view on them.

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/...mour+Duncan/Live+Wires+Classic+Humbucker/10/1

BTW, I currently have over 50 pickups in my house and I have been installing pickups by myself for over 15 years. I have owned many amps (Marshalls, Rivera, Soldano, etc etc) and I currently own three tube amps (Mesa Mark IV, Fender Bassman RI, Traynor). I have 10+ guitars (Gibson Les Paul, Flying V, Fender Strats, teles, 335 copy, Brian Moore, etc etc). I have installed EMGs and Livewires and they all worked just fine. So it's not the case that I installed the pickups incorrectly or I installed them in a cheap guitar and played through a cheap SS amp, **** it!

The question is why LW classic was voiced bright and thin, and why SD marketed that LW classic neck is a good match for LW metal. I just want to know the reason behind those decisions.
 
Re: Why are Livewire Classic Humbuckers so bright?

brisk said:
I have both neck and bridge pickups. I also have a livewire metal.

If you ask my opinion, I will not use classic neck and metal bridge because they are totally mismatch in terms of output level. Think SSL1 in neck and Invader in bridge X 1000. I'd rather use LW metal in a single humbucker guitar.

The HC review also somehow confirms my view on them.

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/...mour+Duncan/Live+Wires+Classic+Humbucker/10/1

BTW, I currently have over 50 pickups in my house and I have been installing pickups by myself for over 15 years. I have owned many amps (Marshalls, Rivera, Soldano, etc etc) and I currently own three tube amps (Mesa Mark IV, Fender Bassman RI, Traynor). I have 10+ guitars (Gibson Les Paul, Flying V, Fender Strats, teles, 335 copy, Brian Moore, etc etc). I have installed EMGs and Livewires and they all worked just fine. So it's not the case that I installed the pickups incorrectly or I installed them in a cheap guitar and played through a cheap SS amp, **** it!

The question is why LW classic was voiced bright and thin, and why SD marketed that LW classic neck is a good match for LW metal. I just want to know the reason behind those decisions.
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Word! I guess nobody saw post #6 either?

Brisk is the Jackie Chan of guitar pickups or something.....????
 
Re: Why are Livewire Classic Humbuckers so bright?

brisk said:
BTW, I currently have over 50 pickups in my house and I have been installing pickups by myself for over 15 years. I have owned many amps (Marshalls, Rivera, Soldano, etc etc) and I currently own three tube amps (Mesa Mark IV, Fender Bassman RI, Traynor). I have 10+ guitars (Gibson Les Paul, Flying V, Fender Strats, teles, 335 copy, Brian Moore, etc etc). I have installed EMGs and Livewires and they all worked just fine. So it's not the case that I installed the pickups incorrectly or I installed them in a cheap guitar and played through a cheap SS amp, **** it!

The question is why LW classic was voiced bright and thin, and why SD marketed that LW classic neck is a good match for LW metal. I just want to know the reason behind those decisions.
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But can you drive to the grocery store and back home without getting lost? That's the real question here.;):)
 
Re: Why are Livewire Classic Humbuckers so bright?

I thought I remember the marketing for the Live Wire Classics to be something to the effect of the "power and bite of the DD in an active design" so I would expect that they would be fairly bright.
 
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