Green Bastard wrote:love the look of the maple fretboard with no markers
do you find the super3 scooped? i got one in my rg550 recently and quite like it, i crank a lot of mids on the amp and boost the mids with an od1 so it probably eliminates any scooping of the pickup
I think scooped may have been the wrong word. It's just so different from the Tone Zone that I'm used to that hearing it kinda threw me.
What I don't really like about it, I've realised, is that the bass is too tight and the highs are chopped back - which makes for an interesting predicament as my main amp does not have a conventional 3-band EQ where you could just EQ all that out and back to taste.
And despite the lack of searing treble, it's a weirdly hot pickup which then doesn't clean up all that well... cos by the time you roll it back what little highs you had are gone.
Interesting pickup though, I can definitely see how it would work really well with super high gain channel switching amps to retain good note definition, but it's not really for me.
Taking suggestions for replacements.
Hot_Grits wrote:Sustainers are amazingly fun, and can do really interesting things, especially outside of the realm of the classic 'hold a note in a solo and work the bar' thing.
Thing with sustainers under gain is muting. When I had my Fernandes I had to work really hard to mute comprehensively to get any silence at all, as any noise or note decay that slips through just takes off. The tendency is to always have a note playing, which can make for quite overbearing guitar parts where the music doesn't breathe because there's a constant lead guitar wail of some kind. Even Phil and EVH got a bit of this going at times.
Cool fun: if you have flatmates, play a note and leave your room to sit and watch tv with them. See how long before they figure out what that whining noise is. Works best if you can adequately defend yourself against violence or run fast.
Enjoy!
Ah yes, definitely with the muting. This is the monstrous 18V Floyd Rose OEM-ed for Jackson circuit too, so it's really strong.
Will be spending some time on Youtube researching the artful use of a sustainer. I hear Neal Schon is pretty good at it.
