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If you try using an EQ pedal in front of your amp you can mess with what happens. I’ve never found that it smooths things out much, but you can thin it out (helpful with some amps yo increase the gain knob without things getting as bloated and woofy) and you can see what effect other frequencies...

That's surprising, they sound very different to me. The 57 has less of the low end and high end filtered out, so while it is not "scooped" it has a wider ranged sound compared to the 81. I've got the 81 in two guitars and the 57 in one at the moment, and the 57 sounds noticeably different and...

Ok yeah I've got my wires crossed it was Ben from Righteous who went to Big House and a lot of people followed him there for I guess more set up kind of stuff but Maple Street seems to be highly recommended for service in general - however they are very backed up. Intown is also highly...

No, you won’t get the same effect because the EMG 81’s internal preamp is not just a high pass filter. There’s a lot more going on there that contributes to the end tone. But yeah the EQ profile of the 81 is kind of a narrow mid peak signal compared to any passive pickup. I used them almost...

Yeah well I’m being gang stalked by TGP mafia. I see boomers wearing tan pants everywhere I go and they’re controlling the radio, making it play Brown Eyed Girl all the time!

Yeah, the feds are gonna make up the deficit they’re growing by billions each quarter with this chump change that is generally dudes taking a loss on what they initially paid for gear anyway. We should be laundering millions and billions though wars in foreign countries like the big boys if we...

I have no idea how it would sound in a Les Paul or against a 500T because all my experiences with the Air Norton have been in alder strat kinda guitars, but it is a smooth but clear, mid-centric pickup in the neck. You will get a lot of harmonic content out of it compared to lot of other neck...

Honestly, a refret only makes sense with a bolt on neck if there is something special about that neck. If it is a standard strat style neck and especially if it’s a dirt cheap chinese job, just replace it. Anything you get from anywhere will still need some fretwork, whether you spend $400 at...

You’re in the ATL area, right? Who did you use? I have a couple guitars I will ultimately have to look at refretting and the main recommendations I’ve had are Intown Guitar Repair and Maple Street Guitars. I know the dude at Maple Street used to be at Righteous Guitars and when he left a lot of...

The original is perfect. That gritty and aggressive tone and mix kicks my ass to this day when I put it on. Their current sound is kind of generic “standard modern metal” by comparison. Too many bands are being produced by Jens Bogren, and while some of these albums sound good to me, a lot of...

A big one for me would be Imaginations From the Other Side by Blind Guardian. It’s probably my favorite album of theirs and one of my all time favorites personally, but the guitar tones are muddy and the whole mix is weak. I’ve listened to it a million times anyway.

The tones are never great in and of themselves but the overall mixes were good enough it never bothered me. I love those albums so much I don’t think changing them would do anything positive for me.

Scream Bloody Gore is more just an awful, harsh mix. The sound of the cymbals reminds me of my band’s old practice space which was a 20 x 20 concrete box. Just the loudest, nastiest wash of high frequencies all over the place. Breeding the Spawn is bottom of the barrel but modern day Suffo has...

The PAF Joe is actually an interesting neck pickup. It has a ton of harmonics, and is a bit less on the smooth side but still not scooped or woofy. It’s kind of rude sounding in a good way.

DiMarzio does have some good neck pickup options. What they do well with them is making them fat and relatively smooth while still having some harmonics and not being too bassy. The “fat” aspect is low mids. I hate when neck pickups sound like a big undefined woof on all but the highest notes.

Sounds nice man, I like how expressive your playing is.

Stuffy and mushy is exactly how I would describe most DiMarzios I have tried, aside from the Super Distortion, Steve's Special, Evolution and Norton. I will say the look of those pickups is badass with that guitar, and I doubt DiMarzio offers that with a lot of their line, but if they did I'd...

Unfortunately that was not the case for him. He cooked something in there, there was a little smoke and a burned smell. Probably burned up a resistor. I told him he might be able to see what burned up if he pulled the chassis, but you can’t see a lot in there due to how they mount the pcb’s.

A friend of mine has had an original Powerball forever. It was very reliable until he accidentally managed to stick a power tube in incorrectly. It was a JJ and I myself have noticed in recent times the bumpout on the guide pin on JJ’s seem to have gotten smaller, making it easier to...

I know over the years I’ve seen claims the Savage doesn’t cut well in a band mix, although you never see people say that about amps that are based on it like the Blackmore/Artist.