Don't get me wrong... I love my Slammer Series Sunburst. It's a first-class axe, and I love guitars that I get cheap and "improve". Two of my favorite players owned red Sunbursts (James Honeyman-Scott and Andy Summers). I love the Gravelin pickups I have in it, Josh is a great guy and I loved how he worked with me on making this set happen. This guitar is a keeper.
The problem is, I'm a Tele guy. I just prefer the snappy sound of the through-body bridge, the maple neck, and the longer scale length. Sonically, Teles are "home" for me, whether they have single coils or humbuckers. As a result, my rig really sounds best with Teles. It's a low-wattage, cathode biased 18 Watter clone and with the mildly-hot humbuckers (10K A5 bridge, 7.7K A2 neck) on the Sunburst, the rig just gets a bit farty. No jangle. I'm sure the mahogany body and neck aren't helping much in that regard.
I'm looking for suggestions on what to do to brighten the guitar up a bit, without swapping pickups. So far, I'm thinking about dropping the pickups down and raising the screw poles up, making them a bit more single-coil-ish. Would that help? What string-to-screw height would you recommend? (Now that I look at it, it appears I never really adjusted the pole pieces when I put the Gravelins in. They're not even following the string radius.)
Any other changes, short of buying a big, fixed-bias Marshall?
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Don't get me wrong... I love my Slammer Series Sunburst. It's a first-class axe, and I love guitars that I get cheap and "improve". Two of my favorite players owned red Sunbursts (James Honeyman-Scott and Andy Summers). I love the Gravelin pickups I have in it, Josh is a great guy and I loved how he worked with me on making this set happen. This guitar is a keeper.
The problem is, I'm a Tele guy. I just prefer the snappy sound of the through-body bridge, the maple neck, and the longer scale length. Sonically, Teles are "home" for me, whether they have single coils or humbuckers. As a result, my rig really sounds best with Teles. It's a low-wattage, cathode biased 18 Watter clone and with the mildly-hot humbuckers (10K A5 bridge, 7.7K A2 neck) on the Sunburst, the rig just gets a bit farty. No jangle. I'm sure the mahogany body and neck aren't helping much in that regard.
I'm looking for suggestions on what to do to brighten the guitar up a bit, without swapping pickups. So far, I'm thinking about dropping the pickups down and raising the screw poles up, making them a bit more single-coil-ish. Would that help? What string-to-screw height would you recommend? (Now that I look at it, it appears I never really adjusted the pole pieces when I put the Gravelins in. They're not even following the string radius.)
Any other changes, short of buying a big, fixed-bias Marshall?
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