Shreddy Mercury
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One of these Warriors of mine has dual X2N pickups in it. Part of me wants to keep them in there because along with these nice pieces of wood they build guitars out of, a lot of times they put figured wood on top of the pickups to complete the aesthetic of figured high end woods. This is a black walnut guitar with some sort of burl walnut pickup covers. So it fits the look, but I just have this love/hate relationship with these X2Ns. Saint Pablo Gilberto of Illinois loves these pickups, but I can't play like him. I'm a DiMarzio Bro for life, but I just end up not liking them more often than I do like them. I'm halfway considering pulling them, putting them in the case, and then trying out maybe a zebra or dubbel kreem Norton, Fred, Tone Zone, or something along those lines, and maybe another 36th Anniversary or PAF Pro of something in the neck. I have a spare zebra Evolution Bridge and I have one in a super heavy super strat. It's pretty hot too, but in a better way than these, at least to my ears.
Maybe it's because I'm always playing this guitar through my Katana, that even with a cool hotrodded Marshall patch, it's just too stinkin' digital and even with me turning the gain knob down, it never really lowers the amount of gain, just the volume. Maybe if I could play the pickups through a real amp, I'd like them more?
Maybe it's because I'm always playing this guitar through my Katana, that even with a cool hotrodded Marshall patch, it's just too stinkin' digital and even with me turning the gain knob down, it never really lowers the amount of gain, just the volume. Maybe if I could play the pickups through a real amp, I'd like them more?
