Suhr Modern Frost

[spirit7]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

 

[csacwp]

go for it - Suhr's are amazing!

 

[JimmyBlind]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

Mark Day plays one with SD Active Pups through an OD100SE+. Sounds pretty effing ridiculous. That said, I prefer the sound of his LP with Suhr Aldrich pickups.

Have a look at the woods & construction. If it's another mahogany body Suhr Modern, you might find it sounds & plays very similar & not to your taste. The modern comes with the slim profile neck which is slimmer & faster than the GG. I'd argue it'd actually sound 'thinner' than the GG.

 

[spirit7]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

Mark Day plays one with SD Active Pups through an OD100SE+. Sounds pretty effing ridiculous. That said, I prefer the sound of his LP with Suhr Aldrich pickups.

Have a look at the woods & construction. If it's another mahogany body Suhr Modern, you might find it sounds & plays very similar & not to your taste. The modern comes with the slim profile neck which is slimmer & faster than the GG. I'd argue it'd actually sound 'thinner' than the GG.

Thanks for the info. The body is alder. I suppose I should try it out before buying just to be sure...

-C

 

[garey77]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

With those pickups, why wouldn't it be able to?

 

[spirit7]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

With those pickups, why wouldn't it be able to?

Because if a guitar is inherently woody or thin, a pickup is never going to fully dial that out. Hard to explain. Put it this way: my GG did not sound like a mahogany instrument.

-C

 

[thegame]

A new Jack Frost signature Suhr ? If a Suhr is good enough for Jack Frost, its good enough for me

 

[JimmyBlind]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

With those pickups, why wouldn't it be able to?

Because if a guitar is inherently woody or thin, a pickup is never going to fully dial that out. Hard to explain. Put it this way: my GG did not sound like a mahogany instrument.

-C

There's much debate as to whether 'tone woods' actually make the slightest bit of difference to magnetic pickup, electric guitar tone. I've demo'd similar guitar models of different woods side by side & I do hear a difference, but I also understand that the pickup doesn't really pickup any real acoustic quality.
I owned a Hollowbody PRS with humbucker magnetic pickups & you could definitely hear that the hollowbody construction made a tonal difference. I think somehow, the wood & guitar construction affects very subtle oscillations of the string that are picked up & amplified.
So yeah. There's skepticism as to whether the famous guitar luthiers of the world have us under a ruse.

I'd be interested to hear people's opinions on it. I might start a thread.

 

[LeftyCatton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o60q6SR7 ... ata_player

That's a colleagues band. He uses a Suhr modern with aftermaths I believe and it's pretty brutal! So I would say you'll be fine!

Luke

 

[dawnofdreamx97]

is it the jack frost signature ?

=)

 

[garey77]

The Modern Frost series look awesome, though. I'd try one out.

 

[se7en]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

With those pickups, why wouldn't it be able to?

Because if a guitar is inherently woody or thin, a pickup is never going to fully dial that out. Hard to explain. Put it this way: my GG did not sound like a mahogany instrument.

-C

What do you think a mahogany instrument sounds like? A lot of misconception about mahogany comes from the belief that it has a lot of low end...it doesn't. It is strong in the mid-mids. John Suhr has said basswood with a maple top will get you closer to a LP tone than mahogany/maple will in a super strat.

 

[the rossness]

I played one the other day for 5 mins and hated it. I think shur is quite over-hyped.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

^Holy Crap! For years I read nothing but praise on Suhr...which model did you play?

 

[steve_k]

Brootz with a vintage trem? I don't know. John should have set these up as hard tails.

 

[spirit7]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

With those pickups, why wouldn't it be able to?

Because if a guitar is inherently woody or thin, a pickup is never going to fully dial that out. Hard to explain. Put it this way: my GG did not sound like a mahogany instrument.

-C

What do you think a mahogany instrument sounds like? A lot of misconception about mahogany comes from the belief that it has a lot of low end...it doesn't. It is strong in the mid-mids. John Suhr has said basswood with a maple top will get you closer to a LP tone than mahogany/maple will in a super strat.

All my PRS's are hogs, ditto the LPC (though with the ebony fretboard). To me, mahogany means mid-low mids and the GG sounded very trebly.

-C

 

[spirit7]

Brootz with a vintage trem? I don't know. John should have set these up as hard tails.

My vintage trem'd PRS's do brootz just fine with BKPs

-C

 

[Tone Zone]

I played one the other day for 5 mins and hated it. I think Suhr is quite over-hyped.

Nope.

 

[se7en]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

With those pickups, why wouldn't it be able to?

Because if a guitar is inherently woody or thin, a pickup is never going to fully dial that out. Hard to explain. Put it this way: my GG did not sound like a mahogany instrument.

-C

What do you think a mahogany instrument sounds like? A lot of misconception about mahogany comes from the belief that it has a lot of low end...it doesn't. It is strong in the mid-mids. John Suhr has said basswood with a maple top will get you closer to a LP tone than mahogany/maple will in a super strat.

All my PRS's are hogs, ditto the LPC (though with the ebony fretboard). To me, mahogany means mid-low mids and the GG sounded very trebly.

-C

Remember that the construction is very different on the Gibson LP and PRS. The shorter scale length, set neck, etc. contribute to characteristics commonly associated with mahagony. I don't care for mahogany on a super strat personally, but am in love with the basswood/maple top on my Suhr Modern.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Opinions please - I have my eye on a black one. Can it do the brootz? I would replace the pickups with BKPs.

I should add that I had a GG and didn't get on with it (it sounded too thin for me).

-C

With those pickups, why wouldn't it be able to?

Because if a guitar is inherently woody or thin, a pickup is never going to fully dial that out. Hard to explain. Put it this way: my GG did not sound like a mahogany instrument.

-C

What do you think a mahogany instrument sounds like? A lot of misconception about mahogany comes from the belief that it has a lot of low end...it doesn't. It is strong in the mid-mids. John Suhr has said basswood with a maple top will get you closer to a LP tone than mahogany/maple will in a super strat.

My friend has an Anderson Drop Top, hardtail, Mahonganey and maple top. It's the closest I've ever heard any strat style guitar sound to a LP. Wood has tendencies to sound a particular way but you never know until the guitar is put together. I had a Suhr Koa standard and I've seen Koa compared to Mahoganey and the Koa standard was the brightest, most thin sounding guitar I've ever had the displeasure of hearing.