Bardagh
Well-known member
Just a PSA - if you have a guitar equipped with Fishman pickups and you find them to be too bright/extended in the high frequencies, use the HF Tilt!
I have a Schecter KM-6 MkII that I have always liked but it always bugged me that the bridge pickup seemed to have so much more high frequency response than anything I have ever heard. It’s like if you take the normal high frequency roll off you hear from any normal humbucker and pushed it up to a higher frequency, “opening up” the higher treble range. There’s just nothing up there in those frequencies that you need, it’s kind of a weird, stringy metallic presence and it always just made me have to drastically change my amp EQ to counteract it.
Anyway, forever I didn’t even realize the HF Tilt option existed on these pickups. There’s a little solder pad for it on the pickup base and you can either wire it to a switch or just permanently engage it by connecting it to a ground solder pad right next to it. I finally got around to trying it today and didn’t even solder - I just connected the two pads with a tiny piece of copper tape.
This is how this pickup should have sounded by default. It isn’t like it became dark or muffled, in fact I would still say it’s a somewhat bright pickup, but that extreme high end, stringy presence is gone.
I have a Schecter KM-6 MkII that I have always liked but it always bugged me that the bridge pickup seemed to have so much more high frequency response than anything I have ever heard. It’s like if you take the normal high frequency roll off you hear from any normal humbucker and pushed it up to a higher frequency, “opening up” the higher treble range. There’s just nothing up there in those frequencies that you need, it’s kind of a weird, stringy metallic presence and it always just made me have to drastically change my amp EQ to counteract it.
Anyway, forever I didn’t even realize the HF Tilt option existed on these pickups. There’s a little solder pad for it on the pickup base and you can either wire it to a switch or just permanently engage it by connecting it to a ground solder pad right next to it. I finally got around to trying it today and didn’t even solder - I just connected the two pads with a tiny piece of copper tape.
This is how this pickup should have sounded by default. It isn’t like it became dark or muffled, in fact I would still say it’s a somewhat bright pickup, but that extreme high end, stringy presence is gone.