fdesalvo
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..and I'm still in love.
I honestly can't imagine a traditional single coil giving me better tone - I went in looking for single coil tone for my neck position, by the way. I have a tele build that's in process and I have a feeling I'm going to be missing this tone.
Compared to any other pickup I've ever run, this one sounds alive and organic. I have to stress the adjective "organic". The SD Jazz, Burstbuckers, 496R, Alnico II, Pearly Gates, and various other models sounded sterile by comparison. Sterile may sound harsh, but I never realized this until I tried this pickup. This is the kind of pickup you build a guitar around.
It does the spanky strat thing to the T, but it just sounds bigger - yet still stratty, which usually doesn't jive. In most other cases, when you have a higher powered single coil, you get boat loads of mids and lack of headroom. The Twangmaster give me a huge girthy strat tone with big, jangly sparkle.
I will tell you that I have it paired with a SD JB in the bride and the in-between position has lost the hollowed out tone that I do enjoy - I probably need to reverse the phase of the JB. But, no matter! This neck tone is phenominal and I want my next build to have one of these in the neck and bridge slots.
I honestly can't imagine a traditional single coil giving me better tone - I went in looking for single coil tone for my neck position, by the way. I have a tele build that's in process and I have a feeling I'm going to be missing this tone.
Compared to any other pickup I've ever run, this one sounds alive and organic. I have to stress the adjective "organic". The SD Jazz, Burstbuckers, 496R, Alnico II, Pearly Gates, and various other models sounded sterile by comparison. Sterile may sound harsh, but I never realized this until I tried this pickup. This is the kind of pickup you build a guitar around.
It does the spanky strat thing to the T, but it just sounds bigger - yet still stratty, which usually doesn't jive. In most other cases, when you have a higher powered single coil, you get boat loads of mids and lack of headroom. The Twangmaster give me a huge girthy strat tone with big, jangly sparkle.
I will tell you that I have it paired with a SD JB in the bride and the in-between position has lost the hollowed out tone that I do enjoy - I probably need to reverse the phase of the JB. But, no matter! This neck tone is phenominal and I want my next build to have one of these in the neck and bridge slots.