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One of the most amazing-sounding guitars I've ever heard! I was always a borderline SG-hater... I simply couldn't help but conjure images of a sweaty Angus Young everytime I saw one. But all that changed the moment I picked up this guitar (quite by mistake) and plugged it in. Midway through my first chord, I was hopelessly hooked!
While it's not much to look at with its satin finish, this is an AMAZING sounding guitar! The lead postition P-90 produces one of the greatest bridge pickup tones I've ever heard. It's simply incredible. I've heard plenty of P-90s in Les Pauls, but they always sounded very thin. On this model, they added a little extra distance between the pickup and the bridge, resulting in a fatness I can't begin to describe! This guitar somehow retains all of the defined, responsive & "touch-sensitive" qualities I love about single coil pickups while at the same producing a warm, fat, glowing tone similar to a humbucker. Utterly sweet.
Having said that, the neck position pickup is way too muddy, and I'm not totally comfortable physically with this guitar. For this reason, I tried all kinds of whacky schemes to try to blend my Strat neck pickup sound with the SG's bridge pickup sound. First, I tried mounting a Fender Texas Special in the neck postition of the SG... looked ridiculous, sounded even more ridiculous. Next, I slapped a P-90 in the bridge position of a Strat (not my SRV), which resulted in perhaps the STINKIEST tone I have EVER heard!
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