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Post subject: Re: Problem fitting jeff beck pups
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 9:09 pm
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Personally, I tend to favor pickups that aren't "too" hot, because while you can always use boost and compression pedals[*] and dial back the treble a little, you cannot go the other way and get back the dynamics missing[**] if the pickup is too hot to start with.
I like my strat just hot enough that I can drive a germanium fuzz without losing tracking. Others have other needs.

But if what you play calls for extra hot pickups, go with them. That pickups reliably sound good whether you hit the strings hard or not, and don't pick up Radio Luxembourg even when shielded is a good thing. But that they fit what you play and you feel good with them is the main point.

[*]: At the expense of more noise and less clarity. Entropy will always claim its price, and whether it's through pedals, active pickups or DAW processing, you will always end up with less of the original signal and more of other things - that's the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and it applies to audio too.

[**]: Which would probably equate to the first law of thermodynamics - you can't get sumthin' for nuthin'.


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Post subject: Re: Problem fitting jeff beck pups
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:23 pm
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