Some direction please.

[Hollow Belly]

Since I can't find them all to play I need help in finding my new G&L. I have many of the basics now. I also own an Asat S & Comanche. Both excel in clean tones and are bright but I also want something more with a low end and better mids. Any suggestions? the Asat S & Comanche are unique in sound. I'm afraid the Asat Deluxe or F-100 will sound like just another humbucker guitar without its own personality. Also thinking of a Legacy HB2. Just looking for a little direction if possible. Thanks

[Craig]

Since I can't find them all to play I need help in finding my new G&L. I have many of the basics now. I also own an Asat S & Comanche. Both excel in clean tones and are bright but I also want something more with a low end and better mids. Any suggestions? the Asat S & Comanche are unique in sound. I'm afraid the Asat Deluxe or F-100 will sound like just another humbucker guitar without its own personality. Also thinking of a Legacy HB2. Just looking for a little direction if possible. Thanks

Would the Asat S you mention be the ASAT Classic S or an ASAT S-3?

The F-100 definitely has a personality of it's own with the MFD humbuckers, so check one out.
Check out the List of pickups used in G&L guitars post in the G&L Knowledgebase.

There are many member impressions on various G&L instruments here on the G&L Forum. See the
Welcome! Read This First post for details on searching the various sub-forums.

Hope this helps.

[huck]

I'm diggin the sound of my ASAT SPECIAL'', with the larger mfd's it has a sound all it's own!!

[sscandyman]

Im a huge fan of the ASAT classic custom, it has the over wound/longer polepiece version of the special pickup in the neck. ive got the semi hollow version and its sounds big as a house ! nice and warm and the notes are big and round all the way up the neck and if i need a little more bite i just throw it in the middle position. of course it also has the classic bridge pup for tele time.

-JT

[NickHorne]

Agreed; a Custom that I tried recently was just as you describe, and a great guitar.
An alternative, flexible route might be a Bluesboy, like Cyfer has done, and there are some good photos / info of his @ GLDP.
Going that route, of course there's a huge choice of Tele-type back pups, and also a great selection of neck pups for the humbucker fitting.
And G&L don't ram that humbucker placement up against the neck, and that helps keep it from being too woofy. Good news.

Do you definitely want a back humbucker? Maybe that might be your deciding question. That's a flavour all to itself.

Cyfer's back T-type steel-pole Fralin will be much like a P90 with extra twang.

And perhaps consider how putting middle-and-back in series on a single-coil guitar can be pretty powerful? My SRV strat, with Fralin Blues in it, does a very enjoyable Ry Cooder imitation with that pickup wiring. Not a humbucker in a metal box, but a big humbucking series pair of coils, for sure, and a couple of inches apart for extra tone flavour! A very tangy twangy sort of fatness. I have made the same circuit in my G&L Will Ray Asat - serious afterburner in series mode, although would be too much "blare" for a warm jazz response.