zephyr drawbacks?
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beaubrummels
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for the zephyr owners?
for the zephyr owners?
darthphineas
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LtKojak
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Which one are you referring to?
There are single-coil and humbucker Zephyrs.
Which one are you referring to?
treyhaislip
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Would love to try them but for the price I can't justify trying them.
Would love to try them but for the price I can't justify trying them.
darthphineas
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more from The Falbo® on the Zephyrs.
good heavens, Frank. look at all the stuff advertised on the wall behind you that was pimped at NAMM 2011. how much stuff did you get out that year?
more from The Falbo® on the Zephyrs.
good heavens, Frank. look at all the stuff advertised on the wall behind you that was pimped at NAMM 2011. how much stuff did you get out that year?
LtKojak
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Well, I can scratch them off of my wish list then.
And the absolutely worst choice if your playing is sloppy...
Well, I can scratch them off of my wish list then.
LtKojak
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Why, losing the sloppiness in the playing is simply not an option?
Rand-O-Monium
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Slop is integral to my,umm, "style"...
Slop is integral to my,umm, "style"...
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they are very clear and clean sounding pups. a friend and i got to spend a good amount of time with them at the factory years back. i loved them in the neck position of both strat and lp style guitars. didnt care for them as much in the bridge. for drop tunings or tons of gain they probably work great since there is an inherent clarity that comes through. for my blues rock wanking i preferred a more traditional bridge pup.
they are very clear and clean sounding pups. a friend and i got to spend a good amount of time with them at the factory years back. i loved them in the neck position of both strat and lp style guitars. didnt care for them as much in the bridge. for drop tunings or tons of gain they probably work great since there is an inherent clarity that comes through. for my blues rock wanking i preferred a more traditional bridge pup.
darthphineas
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same reason i tend to prefer alnico II buckers, theres more meat to the mids and the highs are softer. the pups i played were the stock sets and the neck pups of both were amazing, beautiful sounding and feeling pups. that same clarity was nice for clean tones in the bridge but for the mid gain tones i like (cranking a nmv tube amp up till its roaring) the bridge pup was too clean for me. the sets were alnico 5 so maybe if they were alnico II i would have liked them better. hard to say. if i had a set id probably have the bridge pup wound to 9k and use an a2 magnet
same reason i tend to prefer alnico II buckers, theres more meat to the mids and the highs are softer. the pups i played were the stock sets and the neck pups of both were amazing, beautiful sounding and feeling pups. that same clarity was nice for clean tones in the bridge but for the mid gain tones i like (cranking a nmv tube amp up till its roaring) the bridge pup was too clean for me. the sets were alnico 5 so maybe if they were alnico II i would have liked them better. hard to say. if i had a set id probably have the bridge pup wound to 9k and use an a2 magnet
Clint 55
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It sounds like the Zephyrs have absolutely no imperfections to their tone at all, top to bottom. While they still maintain the vintage tone quality and great character. Very astounding. Compare to the SSL-1s and they bring out the imperfections in the SSL-1s, although I think that could be part of the point to the SSLs - vintage sound.
It sounds like the Zephyrs have absolutely no imperfections to their tone at all, top to bottom. While they still maintain the vintage tone quality and great character. Very astounding. Compare to the SSL-1s and they bring out the imperfections in the SSL-1s, although I think that could be part of the point to the SSLs - vintage sound.
DrNewcenstein
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The troubles with "vintage sound" are that the age of the materials plays a factor in how they sound today, and the recordings made back then were not exactly true, as everything in the signal path had its own influence on what went to tape/vinyl, including the tape/vinyl itself.
To pick up an unmolested 1950s electric guitar and plug it into a matching amp and call what you hear "vintage correct" is actually impossible: that's just how that particular amplifier's wiring and speaker interpret the signal coming from that exact guitar with those exact pickups and pots. While one could wind a pickup that would sound nearly identical through the same amp, what you've replicated is how it sounds today, after 60 years of aging, and not how it sounded when it was first made.
Until someone perfects commercial, mass time travel, we'll never really know how a vintage pickup/guitar/amp sounded when it was new.
The troubles with "vintage sound" are that the age of the materials plays a factor in how they sound today, and the recordings made back then were not exactly true, as everything in the signal path had its own influence on what went to tape/vinyl, including the tape/vinyl itself.
To pick up an unmolested 1950s electric guitar and plug it into a matching amp and call what you hear "vintage correct" is actually impossible: that's just how that particular amplifier's wiring and speaker interpret the signal coming from that exact guitar with those exact pickups and pots. While one could wind a pickup that would sound nearly identical through the same amp, what you've replicated is how it sounds today, after 60 years of aging, and not how it sounded when it was first made.
Until someone perfects commercial, mass time travel, we'll never really know how a vintage pickup/guitar/amp sounded when it was new.
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