Huggy Love
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I've got a little bit of a dilemma here and I'm hoping some outside input will help me resolve it.
I own two PRS hollow bodies, a 2000 McCarty HB and a 2008 single cut HB.
-The McCarty has a maple top and the single cut is all mahogany.
-The McCarty came with PRS arch top PU's, the single cut came with 59/09's and I had them switched out to some arch top PU's by the most reputable luthier in town.
- I had done this in hopes that the all mahogany signal cut would have a darker, more midrange tone than my McCarty. (My McCarty does an excellent job of mimicking a big jazz guitar sound)
- Sadly, that didn't turn out to be the case and my single cut lacks the mid punch and bottom end.
-I thought it was the bridge as the single cut has the adjustable Piezo bridge but I swapped them out (my nonadjustable versus the adjustable) and did an A/B recording and it didn't make enough of a difference. On top of that, acoustically they sounded the same, almost dead on.
-Not only that, but my McCarty's also louder.
My initial thoughts was the bridge but after this test I'm starting to suspect that maybe it's in the electronics of the situation. Maybe the pickups were spliced in and not getting a strong enough signal to fill out the mids and bottom end of the tone. Such as it is, I cannot switch guitars mid-gig because of the difference in tone and that I would have to readjust the EQ to compensate for the single cuts lack of midrange and low-end.
I've been playing phone tag with one of the two ?Sean/Shawn?'s because I wanted to run it by them and get their input before I go back and talk to my guitar tech, who is the best in town, but who knows, maybe one of his workers who did the wiring cut a couple corners?
The single cut is a great guitar, plays well, intonates well, it just doesn't have the tone and being an all mahogany guitar with a little more mass, it should be darker and just as loud as my double cutaway McCarty with a maple top.
I'd hate to have the expense rewiring the whole thing to get it to reach it's tone potential.
What you think?
I own two PRS hollow bodies, a 2000 McCarty HB and a 2008 single cut HB.
-The McCarty has a maple top and the single cut is all mahogany.
-The McCarty came with PRS arch top PU's, the single cut came with 59/09's and I had them switched out to some arch top PU's by the most reputable luthier in town.
- I had done this in hopes that the all mahogany signal cut would have a darker, more midrange tone than my McCarty. (My McCarty does an excellent job of mimicking a big jazz guitar sound)
- Sadly, that didn't turn out to be the case and my single cut lacks the mid punch and bottom end.
-I thought it was the bridge as the single cut has the adjustable Piezo bridge but I swapped them out (my nonadjustable versus the adjustable) and did an A/B recording and it didn't make enough of a difference. On top of that, acoustically they sounded the same, almost dead on.
-Not only that, but my McCarty's also louder.
My initial thoughts was the bridge but after this test I'm starting to suspect that maybe it's in the electronics of the situation. Maybe the pickups were spliced in and not getting a strong enough signal to fill out the mids and bottom end of the tone. Such as it is, I cannot switch guitars mid-gig because of the difference in tone and that I would have to readjust the EQ to compensate for the single cuts lack of midrange and low-end.
I've been playing phone tag with one of the two ?Sean/Shawn?'s because I wanted to run it by them and get their input before I go back and talk to my guitar tech, who is the best in town, but who knows, maybe one of his workers who did the wiring cut a couple corners?
The single cut is a great guitar, plays well, intonates well, it just doesn't have the tone and being an all mahogany guitar with a little more mass, it should be darker and just as loud as my double cutaway McCarty with a maple top.
I'd hate to have the expense rewiring the whole thing to get it to reach it's tone potential.
What you think?
