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6strngs_2hmbkrs
Proud Celica Enthusiast
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6strngs_2hmbkrs
Proud Celica Enthusiast
Joined: 08/14/04
Posts: 3,837
08/12/2005 7:04 am
yeah, so, as many of you know (since I've been bragging a little bit about it, sorry!) I have recently gotten a new gibson sg. and I love it, however, when I'm playing, I'll be using the neck pickup (gibson 490R), and love the tone of it, then I switch to the bridge pickup (gibson 490T), and it's really bass-ey, it has a lot of low end, too much for my tastes. and I have the the tone knob on the neck pickup at about 5 or 6, and I love the tone, and on the bridge pickup I have the tone knob cranked all the way to the treble side, and it's still too bassy. also, it's really not any hotter then the neck pickup... would increasing/decreasing the pickup height help solve any of this? I just want it to either have less bass, or more treble/upper mids. should I consider getting the 498T pickup, which according to the gibson website has a higher output, and an increase in highs/upper mids... apparently due to the Alnico V magnets rather then the Alnico II's that I have. which leads me to another question I had, what are the benefits and flaws of the different kinds of pickup magnets? (Ceramic, Alnico II, and Alnico V) I'm just curious on that...
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