TM1
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I got my brand new `63 ES-335TDC guitar on Wed. Lovely guitar and after a little tweaking and some good strings, plays and sustains like an old one. Not wild about the Nylon saddles. I swapped those out with some Brass ones=big improvement!
I find the MHS pickups to be very mushy, dark and mid-heavy. I like clarity and these don't have that. Of course I'm fairly spoilt in that all my other humbucking guitars have either vintage Gibson pickups or Thobak's. I will be swapping these out with a set of vintage Sixties T-Tops that have Throbak A-4 magnets.
The Custombucker's I've tried sound better than these. I'm fairly disappointed in these when the guitar is played clean. when I have an overdrive pedal on then they sound pretty nice, but not a good trade off in my opinion.
Anyone else experience this with these new "Memphis" pickups?
BTW, I have done all the adjusting one can do with these...
Thanks!
I find the MHS pickups to be very mushy, dark and mid-heavy. I like clarity and these don't have that. Of course I'm fairly spoilt in that all my other humbucking guitars have either vintage Gibson pickups or Thobak's. I will be swapping these out with a set of vintage Sixties T-Tops that have Throbak A-4 magnets.
The Custombucker's I've tried sound better than these. I'm fairly disappointed in these when the guitar is played clean. when I have an overdrive pedal on then they sound pretty nice, but not a good trade off in my opinion.
Anyone else experience this with these new "Memphis" pickups?
BTW, I have done all the adjusting one can do with these...
Thanks!