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a major pleasant surprise from my ASAT Classic S is the tone from it's S-500 middle pup...
the guitar could be 'esquired' with just that middle pup and still be a great guitar...an ASAT 500 M, lol...
now i'm wondering how an S-500 semihollow would sound and how different from my ASAT Classic S...
or if a regular S-500 would replace my Strats...
or...
BadJaxx wrote:a major pleasant surprise from my ASAT Classic S is the tone from it's S-500 middle pup...
the guitar could be 'esquired' with just that middle pup and still be a great guitar...an ASAT 500 M, lol...
now i'm wondering how an S-500 semihollow would sound and how different from my ASAT Classic S...
or if a regular S-500 would replace my Strats...
or...
thanks, i'll check those out...
the ASAT MFD pups sound great as well, of course...it's just that the middle position on my G&L sounds so much better than any middle position single coil i've tried, that it really stands out...
on a simply stellar guitar, that tells me something...
interesting stuff there...
i'd be interested to know if you ever tried a PRS EG with the Fralin Domino pups cuz your description of the z coil tone sounds a lot like my description of the dominos...
This brings up a question I'm wondering if anyone can answer. Every current S-500 I've played sounds essentially the same -- and great. I bought an ASAT III, the one with the S-500 pickups, hoping I'd get something pretty close to the S-500 sound. It wasn't anything like it. I guess you'd say the tone was just kind of dead, and I tried all sorts of things -- different strings, different pickup heights, a few wiring tweaks, new pots. There were more tweaks I could have tried, but I finally gave up and sold it at a low price, figuring the next guy would either love it, fix it right or sell it himself at a low price.
I know that the S-500 has a somewhat different circuit with the PTB wiring. It also has a different body shape and a trem. All these could contribute. But even then, the pickups just didn't sound alive to me, like S-500 pups do.
So my question: Any ASAT III owners out there who can compare the tone of their axe to an S-500 they might own? Are the tones pretty similar?
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