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drzing

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So, I am looking for the most raw dirty kind of sound off my SG guitar, my LP already delivers well,

I decided I am probably going to be using a Seymour D. JB model on the bridge, what do you think

would be a good match for the neck position maybe a 496R?

I tried a hotter, still 490R sounds almost like a P90, it is too much of a contrast.

Maybe a dimarzio PAF PRO?

I have at least one of each gibson humbuckers (the most pop, 490-500 R/T series), a few dimarzios and one

a few seymours.

 

If you know how a JB model sounds like and feels like, you will be kind of able to imagine what I

am looking for. It is not that a 490R is not good, it just has nothing to do with it.

 

All suggestions are appreciated.

I liked the dirty fingers but I find that wax kind of spoils it out, since they dampen the feedback way too

much, I need something that is potent but which can still sustain a note forever if I want, without anything

else than a distortion pedal. For the neck I like sensitive pickups with a nice EQ profile as to be somewhat

'darker' sounding than the bridge position.

 

Recommendations for PUPs out of the list will be also appreciated.

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... I liked the dirty fingers but I find that wax kind of spoils it out, since they dampen the feedback way too much, I need something that is potent but which can still sustain a note forever if I want, without anything else than a distortion pedal. ...

Wax is not dampening string feedback anyhow but coil microphonics which are adversive on principal since they have nothing to do with string vibration. If a special note will feed back or not depends on fulfilling the feedback resonance conditions for the desired frequency from string, body and neck, dull and strong notes over cable/transmitter, gain, EQing, volume to speaker, distance, acoustic properties of the environment etc. Feedback is easier to achieve with an all-analog setup since there are no latencies inherent.

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