Author Topic: Pickups straight to jack? (Read 589 times)

jazzyvee · « **Reply #15 on:** September 08, 2015, 11:17:47 PM »

When it was new the guitar got reviewed one of the UK Guitar player magazines and it got one of the highest ever ratings for any guitar they had reviewed. The guy I got it from was the first endorsee of the company and it sounded awesome when he played it on the gigs I saw him play. But then he was heavily into effects modules so never used the naked sound of the guitar plugged directly into an amp. I tend to use the guitar clean 99% of the time so that's the most important part for me hence my love of alembic. I'd really like to try the PRS but how the conversation is going it does not look like there will be an easy opportunity to try the guitar first. I've not done that before apart from an alembic so that is my concern at the moment and I also think maybe the alembic pickups are the thing that will give this guitar it's real voice.

jazzyvee · « **Reply #16 on:** September 09, 2015, 03:50:03 PM »

Spoke too soon, the seller got cold feet.
Anyway.........

FC Bass · « **Reply #17 on:** September 09, 2015, 06:33:14 PM »

I think that if you hardwire Alembic pickups right to the output, the signal (frequency range) will suffer a lot depending on the lead length...
If I'm not mistaken you should at least have some kind of buffer between the pickups and output...

jazzyvee · « **Reply #18 on:** December 03, 2015, 09:42:39 AM »

Yah, the guitar has now gone to a buyer in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived yesterday. He seems really chuffed so all is good. Now I can focus on doing some crazy mods to my Orion guitar and self build strat.