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Re: mixing pickup brands.
Replaced a neck pu on my SL2H a couple of days ago. SH-1 are fine and they add more overall versality to the axe (contributing a lot to the cleans in particulary), but I could not get proper tonal balance between neck and bridge.
I'm not a gain abuser, and prefer to rely more on picking quality than on extra distortion. And when I dial enough distortion for SH-4 to give me tight riffage, screaming harmomics and full-bodied leads, SH-1 still sounds too clean. I messed a bit with height adjustment, lowering SH-4 and raising SH-1 as much as it was still reasonable, but still I couldn't get both not oversaturaded/overcompressed bridge tone and "round" neck tone. So I tried SH-2. I've lost a bit of clean quality (but still Soloist sounds better clean than Rhoads or Kelly) but finally got a neck tone. But I won't sell SH-1 though, will keep it "just in case".
Replaced a neck pu on my SL2H a couple of days ago. SH-1 are fine and they add more overall versality to the axe (contributing a lot to the cleans in particulary), but I could not get proper tonal balance between neck and bridge.
I'm not a gain abuser, and prefer to rely more on picking quality than on extra distortion. And when I dial enough distortion for SH-4 to give me tight riffage, screaming harmomics and full-bodied leads, SH-1 still sounds too clean. I messed a bit with height adjustment, lowering SH-4 and raising SH-1 as much as it was still reasonable, but still I couldn't get both not oversaturaded/overcompressed bridge tone and "round" neck tone. So I tried SH-2. I've lost a bit of clean quality (but still Soloist sounds better clean than Rhoads or Kelly) but finally got a neck tone. But I won't sell SH-1 though, will keep it "just in case".
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