I am definitely a lead player but love some gnarly nasty rhythm guitars.
To describe the way my music sounds - emo, heavy, jazzy, funky, weird. Does that help?
I go between crushingly heavy, to snappy clean, odd timed fusion rhythms and melodies.
For whatever reason, i was inclined to tune my Les Paul guitar to D standard to try these out.
My first 40 minutes with these pickups were really...fun? Surprising. Not as expected.
Brief initial description, further in depth detail and review to come.
Neck:
The neck pickup is so surprisingly vocal it is unreal. A certain woody/snappy nature, but still full and controlled. I found the pickup to feel balanced but open and airy in a way.
Middle:
This is really woody and poppy. Like, I did not think a Les Paul could get here. This reminds me of something like a strat if it were super fat or something. I don't know how to quite explain it but the cleans in this position are really beautiful. The lead tones are really fun and usable here.
Bridge:
Definitely in the vintage territory, so I keep thinking. it definitely is. Liek a classic PAF but with more. It still has this 'woody' nature to it that I initially thought I may not like. I was thinking "Uh oh. I may want something more modern, more aggressive or pushed."
This thing takes gain amazingly. It doesn;t really 'push' your amp, it just pushes the frequencies that you want if that makes sense?
I could NOT stop doing vibrato and pinch harmonics and laughing my ass off for whatever reason because they sounded so good.
Again, will not super punch your amp but is full, rich, but somehow woody and snappy and vocal.
Absolutely eats up gain and keeps up with dropped tunings.
I wonder what they would sound like in a 7 string.....?
Definitely the opposite of pickups like my Dimarzios or even something like Burstbucker (III).
Took me a bit to get used to them, but so far, I am very happy with my decision
More to come!
