Hi guys
Been a while since I last posted. I've been enjoying my custom 24 for about a year and a half now and it's a great guitar, if they would just make that neck just a millimeter or two narrower though! They are pretty good necks though and completely different in feel to a lot of other guitars.
Anyway, more and more I've started to become dissatisfied with the tone of the neck pickup on my Custom 24, it just doesn't have that famous "liquidy", bluesy classic neck pickup tone for leads and solos that I love. Mine came stock with the 57/08 and I changed them for some Bareknuckle pickups which are decent pickups but they aren't producing that tone in the neck....Is it the pickup or something more fundamental.... With the CU24 having 24 frets and having the bridge moved up the body to compensate, it doesn't affect the bridge pickup sound but the neck pickup doesn't have the same fullness from where it's positioned on the body as a 22 fret guitar like a Les Paul, it's slightly more trebly. That's my theory anyway.
So what I'm asking is, can you get "that" lead tone from a cu24 in the neck? I've tried rolling down the tone knob which gets quite a similar effect but it can also make the guitar sound a bit strange in some ways. So I'm wondering if anyone else has this issue with the 24 and whether they managed to get that tone i'm after by getting a particular pickup maybe voiced slightly bassier or maybe EQ'ing their amp in a certain way? Or alternately if I want that kind of tone would I be better off getting a Custom22? My CU24 is a great guitar so it seems a shame to have to go to the trouble of selling it and getting a 22 but tone is tone right? I don't know why they made them 24 frets, I can't find a use for that note, it's way too high and the radius once I get that high makes it fret out pretty much... Anyway.
Hopefully someone on the forum can help me out with my questions.
Have a great Sunday.
James
Been a while since I last posted. I've been enjoying my custom 24 for about a year and a half now and it's a great guitar, if they would just make that neck just a millimeter or two narrower though! They are pretty good necks though and completely different in feel to a lot of other guitars.
Anyway, more and more I've started to become dissatisfied with the tone of the neck pickup on my Custom 24, it just doesn't have that famous "liquidy", bluesy classic neck pickup tone for leads and solos that I love. Mine came stock with the 57/08 and I changed them for some Bareknuckle pickups which are decent pickups but they aren't producing that tone in the neck....Is it the pickup or something more fundamental.... With the CU24 having 24 frets and having the bridge moved up the body to compensate, it doesn't affect the bridge pickup sound but the neck pickup doesn't have the same fullness from where it's positioned on the body as a 22 fret guitar like a Les Paul, it's slightly more trebly. That's my theory anyway.
So what I'm asking is, can you get "that" lead tone from a cu24 in the neck? I've tried rolling down the tone knob which gets quite a similar effect but it can also make the guitar sound a bit strange in some ways. So I'm wondering if anyone else has this issue with the 24 and whether they managed to get that tone i'm after by getting a particular pickup maybe voiced slightly bassier or maybe EQ'ing their amp in a certain way? Or alternately if I want that kind of tone would I be better off getting a Custom22? My CU24 is a great guitar so it seems a shame to have to go to the trouble of selling it and getting a 22 but tone is tone right? I don't know why they made them 24 frets, I can't find a use for that note, it's way too high and the radius once I get that high makes it fret out pretty much... Anyway.
Hopefully someone on the forum can help me out with my questions.
Have a great Sunday.
James