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The Pickup Place / The feel and response of air pickups
« on: April 19, 2021, 07:11:09 AM »
I’m about ready to buy an Air Classic neck and an Air Zone bridge for my alder HH Tele with maple rosewood neck.
I’ve chosen these pickups for a clean and clear neck sound which is lower gain, with a stronger more muscular bridge pickup which is EQ’d to deal with the brightness and thinness of the bridge position in bolt on guitars.
First any concerns with my choices?
Second, what difference does the “air-ing” that Dimarzio does to a pickup make to the feel and response of the pickup? I know they use A5 in the neck but the air process gives it slightly less attack and lower string pull similar to A2 magnets.
Does it also give it the real compressed attack and softness that A2 has? I don’t want that. I want a fairly direct translation of what my pick does to what the pickup outputs. I don’t want it to be too squishy or soft and too low output.
The same applies to the Air Zone bridge. Does it give it a mushy attack or is it still fairly uncompressed like A5s are?
I’ve chosen these pickups for a clean and clear neck sound which is lower gain, with a stronger more muscular bridge pickup which is EQ’d to deal with the brightness and thinness of the bridge position in bolt on guitars.
First any concerns with my choices?
Second, what difference does the “air-ing” that Dimarzio does to a pickup make to the feel and response of the pickup? I know they use A5 in the neck but the air process gives it slightly less attack and lower string pull similar to A2 magnets.
Does it also give it the real compressed attack and softness that A2 has? I don’t want that. I want a fairly direct translation of what my pick does to what the pickup outputs. I don’t want it to be too squishy or soft and too low output.
The same applies to the Air Zone bridge. Does it give it a mushy attack or is it still fairly uncompressed like A5s are?