I'd love some 58/15 in a McCarty
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I'd love some 58/15 in a McCarty
Yeah, I didn't get that until I rewatched the video with this thought in mind, and I have to admit, now I do. It's not so much a coincidence, as...he's shooting towards an ideal, and he's gotten close enough to the ideal with both these pickups that they end up sounding the same.So I've read several times here that the 58/15 and 85/15 pickups are the same, but the 58 is covered. In the vid, he seems to say that they may not be...or if they are the same, it's kind of a coincidence. That they were after making a better '58 PAF with one, and a better '85 PRS with the other?
Yeah, I didn't get that until I rewatched the video with this thought in mind, and I have to admit, now I do. It's not so much a coincidence, as...he's shooting towards an ideal, and he's gotten close enough to the ideal with both these pickups that they end up sounding the same.
I don't think PRSh addresses the difference between 58/15 and 85/15 in the video.
I thought it was obvious from the video that:
1.) the 85/15 pickups are an updated reissue of the original T&B pickups that graced the early PRS guitars starting in 1985.
2.) the 58/15 pickups are a tweaked update of the 57/08 pickups.
As to the idea of removing low mids from guitars in mixing, that is FAR from universal convention. an A/B comparison of the 57/08 and 58/15 sets would be ideal.
Not only did I not get that impression from the video, but I have the 85/15s and have had the T&Bs, and they are not even remotely similar. So far, the 85/15s on my CU24 30th PS are my favorite PRS pickups.
Most mix engineers will remove low mids to some degree from guitar tracks to carve out room for bass and kick drum; in fact, it even helps the vocal. Just about everyone in the pro mix world uses the technique to one degree or another.
That was about the first piece of advice I got from a couple of pro engineers when I got up and running with my home studio.
It's pretty instructive to listen to some of the now-available solo guitar tracks from famous tunes. More often than not it's obvious they had a fair amount of this sort of slimming down applied at some point in the signal chain.
As to the idea of removing low mids from guitars in mixing, that is FAR from universal convention.
Most mix engineers will remove low mids to some degree from guitar tracks to carve out room for bass and kick drum; in fact, it even helps the vocal. Just about everyone in the pro mix world uses the technique to one degree or another.
That was about the first piece of advice I got from a couple of pro engineers when I got up and running with my home studio.
It's pretty instructive to listen to some of the now-available solo guitar tracks from famous tunes. More often than not it's obvious they had a fair amount of this sort of slimming down applied at some point in the signal chain.
I have the 85/15s and have had the T&Bs, and they are not even remotely similar.
The 58/15s, according to Paul's interview in Guitarist, are the same as the 85/15s, only they have covers, thus a warmer high end.
That just doesn't make any sense to me. 59/09s have come in both covered and uncovered versions, and there was no need to change the name. Between that and the fact that the first number is meant to be the year of the reference pickups, I find it hard to believe that these are just covered 85/15s. I think somebody got some wires crossed in that interview.