Hey,
I put SD Livewires in my Soloist...but I think they might be putting too much through my mesa to get a friendly tone. I can get cool tones out of them, but it seems like they put so much drive through the amp that it feedbacks and the tone gets just really LOUD and HARSH and BIG all of the sudden...but not warm big, and not good loud and nasty growling harsh...but just like, there's more output than tone coming out of those damn things, and you can hear the tone behind it, and get some neat sounds, but sometimes it just really feels like the output is too much, and I don't know if a bigger resistor on the pup would help, or if it's just time to give up the actives and get some different pickups that'll work. It's like a big belch...the sound just jumps out, not gurgly like a burp, but just like too much to make good use out of. What do you think would be best, bigger resistor, or new pups?
Thanks,
Nick
I put SD Livewires in my Soloist...but I think they might be putting too much through my mesa to get a friendly tone. I can get cool tones out of them, but it seems like they put so much drive through the amp that it feedbacks and the tone gets just really LOUD and HARSH and BIG all of the sudden...but not warm big, and not good loud and nasty growling harsh...but just like, there's more output than tone coming out of those damn things, and you can hear the tone behind it, and get some neat sounds, but sometimes it just really feels like the output is too much, and I don't know if a bigger resistor on the pup would help, or if it's just time to give up the actives and get some different pickups that'll work. It's like a big belch...the sound just jumps out, not gurgly like a burp, but just like too much to make good use out of. What do you think would be best, bigger resistor, or new pups?
Thanks,
Nick
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