Hello, all,
I recently picked up a 30th anniversary CU24. I also have a 22-fret Schroeder hardtail guitar with covered WCR Godwood pickups in it. I spend most of my time playing Robben Ford-style blues, old R&B, and so forth. So medium gain, Dumble ODS kind of tones. I'm using an AxeFX for the most part these days.
The 85/15's in the PRS are pretty nice pickups, are a bit brighter sounding (perhaps because having no covers) and possibly a bit deeper sounding. But the bridge pickup lacks the woody midrange complexity that I get out of the Schroeder/WCR combo. I've tinkered quite a bit with pickup height, and lowering it gets quite a bit closer. And, actually, dropping the tone control down to 7-8 range seems to get it closer as well. But I think these pickups were just designed for a different overall tone than what I'm after.
I was a little surprised to see that the stock tone cap is higher than most...I think it's around .03uF or something? Surprised because with a cap that high in value, I wouldn't expect to roll off anything on the tone knob. Anyone replace that cap with a different (higher still) value and have an experience to report? I've heard that changing that can alter the resonance of the pickups. Or...
Sacrilege to pull the stock p'ups and replace them with the Zhangbuckers I've got sitting around? ;-) Going to have to get some different rings to try that little experiment...
I recently picked up a 30th anniversary CU24. I also have a 22-fret Schroeder hardtail guitar with covered WCR Godwood pickups in it. I spend most of my time playing Robben Ford-style blues, old R&B, and so forth. So medium gain, Dumble ODS kind of tones. I'm using an AxeFX for the most part these days.
The 85/15's in the PRS are pretty nice pickups, are a bit brighter sounding (perhaps because having no covers) and possibly a bit deeper sounding. But the bridge pickup lacks the woody midrange complexity that I get out of the Schroeder/WCR combo. I've tinkered quite a bit with pickup height, and lowering it gets quite a bit closer. And, actually, dropping the tone control down to 7-8 range seems to get it closer as well. But I think these pickups were just designed for a different overall tone than what I'm after.
I was a little surprised to see that the stock tone cap is higher than most...I think it's around .03uF or something? Surprised because with a cap that high in value, I wouldn't expect to roll off anything on the tone knob. Anyone replace that cap with a different (higher still) value and have an experience to report? I've heard that changing that can alter the resonance of the pickups. Or...
Sacrilege to pull the stock p'ups and replace them with the Zhangbuckers I've got sitting around? ;-) Going to have to get some different rings to try that little experiment...
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