Oh, I have the DT770's as well. Are yours 32 ohms? I like the sound of those as well, and I use them as well from time to time. I actually use them more at work to listen to music. They seem to have a cleaner bass than the Sennheisers, but the downside is the treble seens a bit too active with...
I absolutely love the sound of a cranked half-stack, but I'm sure I'm not the only one living in an apartment with neighbors that don't take to 100+ dB of Death Metal riffs too kindly.
So what are you guys' setups for playing silently through headphones?
I started my journey a couple of years...
I used to really like them.
Back around 2018, I think, they changed something in the preamp. I got a new EMG 57/66 around 2020 which was horrible. Thin and scratchy. I sold it, and I bought a used scratched up 57/66 from 2017 which sounded killer. The way they were supposed to, I guess.
I hate...
I like Duncans overall better than DiMarzios, but both make pickups that I like.
That being said, though, I feel DiMarzio has more variety when it comes to neck pickups. From the Duncan HB line, it seems like 80-90% of the neck pickup options are sorta 7.5K-ish Alnico and that's it. Very few...
I suppose you could get a similar punch if you ran 1M volume and tone pots for the same load as a single 500K pot. But I have no idea functionally if the taper would feel different or what.
I personally prefer not having a tone knob and if I need to tame a pickup a bit, I just run a single 250K volume or, if it's too much, a 1M resistor in parallel with a 500K volume. But I find myself more often running pickups on single 500K or occasionally 1M volumes.
It's cool, but honestly...
I actually ran mine with a single 500K volume. It came in my guitar (Les Paul Modern Lite). At first, I thought it was alright through a 500K volume and tone, but then I started comparing it to my other guitars which I run single 500K or even 1M volume pots, no tone, and I thought it was kinda...
I like both, personally.
I do find the 498T has a "broader" freq response than the JB which is basically as mid-forward as a passive gets. But the 498T, like you said, is not low-output either, but it's not as hot as the JB.
I love the 498T, but I don't think it's got a PAF vibe at all.
To me, it comes across more like an underwound JB. Kinda very mid-forward and relatively hot, but not as mid-forward and hot as a JB.
For me:
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
In Flames - Whoracle
Carcass - Heartwork
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security
Sylosis - Edge of the Earth
The Haunted - Revolver
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical...