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The Pickup Place / Re: HFH vs Super 2 vs 36th

« on: December 02, 2019, 05:20:56 AM »

I did ask about that one with the guy at DiMarzio. He kept steering me toward the EJ neck, so I've not given it a lot more consideration. Thanks for the heads-up.

What did you finally choose?
I am close to your case, I need a neck pickup with the less mud possible in the lows, however with sufficient growl in the mid to be able to play riffs (ala Josh Homme in Kyuss)  .

My current config is :
-Big but dark sounding Les Paul
-Bridge: 36th Paf
-Neck: Super 2, setted quite low under the strings, and with bass poles slighty shorten (does helps a lot to sharpen the lows)

That config actually works quite well, but I was wondering if I could go better with something else you where turning around:
-36th Paf
-Paf Master
-EJ custom
FYI I don't like the HFH, too thin and not enough mids.

BTW, I read your Super 2 review, as almost all the reviews on your blog ;-)  very cool and very useful

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The Pickup Place / Re: Any chance of a stickied DiMarzio Mods post?

« on: February 06, 2019, 09:53:09 AM »

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Super 2 in the neck: Remove all poles from neck side coil. Result:  Sounds like a big, loud single coil.  Loud enough to easily keep up with a mid range bucker in the bridge (Air Zone, AT-1, etc.).  Tight, bright, but with output no single can cop. 

I tryed your mod on my Les Paul : Super 2 neck pup, poles under the 3 bass strings removed. Works great as expected. Thanks for that awesome trick !

Actually this pickup has a PAF style cover installed, and I wonder what would be the result if I remove the poles which are hidden under the cover instead of the visible ones.
What do you think ?