A follow up to my previous post on my, what I believe to be, ALS65.
Having now played it for a bit and tried it at a couple of rehearsals, I'm not 100% sure about the pickups. These are the MkII PAFs. The bridge one sounds pretty good from the off but whenever I try to use the neck pickup it just seems to lack something and feels a bit dead and muddy. I probably need to experiment a bit with different height settings before I do anything like swap pickups but as it stands I don't think the neck one is that usable for me (classic rock, country, blues styles with cleanish or slightly overdriven tube amp).
Does anyone else have any thoughts about the MkII pickups? Any tips to get the most out of it? Or if I do swap it out, do you have any tips on a suitable alternative? (And indeed if I swap the neck out should I also upgrade the bridge?)
Lastly, and I don't know if it's just my imagination, but it almost seems as though the tone on both pickups loses top end when I turn the volume down. Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks!
Having now played it for a bit and tried it at a couple of rehearsals, I'm not 100% sure about the pickups. These are the MkII PAFs. The bridge one sounds pretty good from the off but whenever I try to use the neck pickup it just seems to lack something and feels a bit dead and muddy. I probably need to experiment a bit with different height settings before I do anything like swap pickups but as it stands I don't think the neck one is that usable for me (classic rock, country, blues styles with cleanish or slightly overdriven tube amp).
Does anyone else have any thoughts about the MkII pickups? Any tips to get the most out of it? Or if I do swap it out, do you have any tips on a suitable alternative? (And indeed if I swap the neck out should I also upgrade the bridge?)
Lastly, and I don't know if it's just my imagination, but it almost seems as though the tone on both pickups loses top end when I turn the volume down. Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks!