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full tone wood luthery
Wat?
full tone wood luthery
Those are not the X-bars ... and they are better in a full tone wood luthery , unlike this tele with could lack bass and low mids .
What about actives are you liking? The compression? The clarity? The gain? The usability and evenness of the tone and volume knobs? Or something particular to the EQ profile?
The Fishmans moderns are moderately compressed (less than EMG's, but more than a lot of passives). They have a lot of clarity and are gainy as &%$#
As much as people rag on EMG's for being compressed, that's actually one of those things that people like about many pickups. A lot of high gain pickups are pretty compressed compared to say a PAF. You can get the compression from a lot of overwound pickups especially with ceramic magnets (e.g. Duncan Distortion or a BKP Ragnarok). Most BKP's and certain pickups from other builders (e.g. Custom 5) have clarity that is competitive. There is no way around the way the volume/tone interact with the pickup - that's a high impedance / low impedance thing, but you can make up some of the behavior in a passive setup with things like a treble bleed.
It's a shame you cannot fit in the battery pack somewhere. That really takes the pain in the but out of batteries. I used to always swap batteries before a gig, because I was paranoid of the battery dying. Now I just charge it.
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This guitar was an eight strings , now 7 , all wood and bone nut and bridge , I can tell you it sounds gorgeous acoustically , and the x-bars are just heaven here ;
https://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=93500&d=1540652023
This guitar was an eight strings , now 7 , all wood and bone nut and bridge , I can tell you it sounds gorgeous acoustically , and the x-bars are just heaven here ;
https://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=93500&d=1540652023
Any time I go play a J Boden they're loaded with those xbars and they sound like absolute ass.the xbar in my Strandberg are the worst pickups I’ve ever owned in my entire life.
Any time I go play a J Boden they're loaded with those xbars and they sound like absolute ass.
Maybe it's because they don't have enough tone wood.
Hey remember when we were trying to find pickups that sound similar to Fishman Fluences?
But uh
Yeah
As I said before; good luck. Nothing passive will sound like V1 of the Fluences. It's got a built-in compression and active sound you can't emulate except with an boost of sorts. V2, still hard to say. It has a growl to it, but still has a very scooped, tight, and nearly twangy sound. Like I said, I'm curious to see how the Lundgren M series compares.
m series is far from scooped, but as far as growl, twang and tight, yeah it delivers on those aspects. elysian trident ii or goliaths would nail the tight and twang aspects, but they're more mid/upper mid heavy than the m series, so they have more of a snarl than a growl imo. they'd be actually be a good stand in for v1.Hey remember when we were trying to find pickups that sound similar to Fishman Fluences?
But uh
Yeah
As I said before; good luck. Nothing passive will sound like V1 of the Fluences. It's got a built-in compression and active sound you can't emulate except with an boost of sorts. V2, still hard to say. It has a growl to it, but still has a very scooped, tight, and nearly twangy sound. Like I said, I'm curious to see how the Lundgren M series compares.
The wood and bone bridge brings a lot to the acoustic fulness of the tone ,That doesn't answer the mystery of "Full tone wood Luthery"?
So....the X-bars only sound good with a wooden bridge?The wood and bone bridge brings a lot to the acoustic fulness of the tone ,
and I carved the body for a better access to last frets , the horn cutting was just an esthetic improvement .
Got it!So....the X-bars only sound good with a wooden bridge?
Wood and bone bring more warmth and vibrations , it is much more musical to my ears ,So....the X-bars only sound good with a wooden bridge?
Wood and bone bring more warmth and vibrations , it is much more musical to my ears ,
furthermore with neck trough and strong trough : eternal sustain , monstrous vibrations really !
Anyway I didn't have other choice than to build such a bridge because of the increased string spacing ,
then also didn't have much choice of pickups .
A bet that worked so well for my huge hands and my ears !
So to come back to your concern CLP , those Lace x-bar do a wonderful job in my guitar ,
but probably in all good sounding lutherie .