Tuesday blues

Had some time to kill today before treatment. Finally managed to blue all plastic parts for my Ibanez RG521 & gave it a fresh set of strings while I'm at it. It took me this long to realize that the pickups were too close to the strings. Since day one, I've been adhering to the Ibanez factory settings but the oversight here was that the output of the pickups should be taken into consideration. So both pickups were lowered into the cavity, not too much, just to eliminate wolf tones. This refers to the sound of the pickups fuzzing out while in distortion mode. FYI those are Seymour Duncan's Alpha - Omega set. 

Omega LP

Holiday eve- managed to drop by Beez's to get this done. The former pickup in there was a Bare Knuckle Black Hawk with tremendous amount of output & sizzling distortion but that's not it for me. I prefer something with clarity but not piercing in terms of tone. It shouldn't mud-out at high gain settings as well & Seymour Duncan's Omega is a worthy replacement. Not a Mark Holcomb fan in this respect, I just hear what works for me & disregard the endorser associations.

How uncluttered things are when you have only one pickup to deal with. Thanks to Beez once again for keeping things in check.

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Officially released- Alpha/ Omega pickups by Seymour Duncan (in collaboration with Mark Holcomb- I trust you know his band). The bridge is claimed to manifest a strong percussive midrange response. Stuff: