Dave Merrill
Axe-Master
How do you HSS guys end up running your volume and tone controls?
I've never had an HSS guitar before, and I recently picked up an Ibanez AT10, HSS, Dimarzio pickups, 2 Cruisers and an AT-1. The AT1 is way louder than the Cruisers, pretty different tone.
I've tried turning the volume on the AT down to maybe 5.5. Going whole hog on that, I'd head towards 2 volumes and a master tone.
I also tried turning the bridge tone down about the same, which doesn't sound like it makes sense since the pickup itself has less top than the Cruisers already, but it's actually nice, cuts the volume a lot, and doesn't turn to total mush like you'd think. It's very different than tone all the way up, but cool.
So I'm wondering what other folks do with this pickup arrangement, what controls you have, how you set your controls.
I've never had an HSS guitar before, and I recently picked up an Ibanez AT10, HSS, Dimarzio pickups, 2 Cruisers and an AT-1. The AT1 is way louder than the Cruisers, pretty different tone.
I've tried turning the volume on the AT down to maybe 5.5. Going whole hog on that, I'd head towards 2 volumes and a master tone.
I also tried turning the bridge tone down about the same, which doesn't sound like it makes sense since the pickup itself has less top than the Cruisers already, but it's actually nice, cuts the volume a lot, and doesn't turn to total mush like you'd think. It's very different than tone all the way up, but cool.
So I'm wondering what other folks do with this pickup arrangement, what controls you have, how you set your controls.