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by Tone Slinger » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:44 am
I hear them as being very similar.
Its simple really, just thinner wire and about double the turns as a paf. This, with that fat ceramic magnet, sort of gives you a 'broader' tone, as well as more gain. I think that the players who think of a DSD or MM as 'dull' or overlly 'bottom' endy, are judging this spec (13.6 is spec, my DSD reads 14.2) by hot ALNICO winds. Those will get dull and 'thubby'.
My DSD is brighter, broader and tighter as compared to my lower output paf 'knock offs', but is a little more of a 'vacuum' type closed attack. This is only (closed aspect) when comparing to alnico. Very hard to describe.
I hear a definite 'Lynch on Back For The Attack' type of ceramic bite , push and crunch on Ed's '77 era stuff (including that first album). Lynch obviously had been using the Duncan Distortion since it's inception.
I also hear a MAJOR amount of this SAME tone aspect in certain old Ace Frehley (Alive 2) and Rhoads (definately the Mr. Crowley live Picture disc, 'Mr. Crowley' (Polka dot V DSD) 'You Said it All' (Les Paul 'T-Tops) and 'Suicide Solution' (Polka dot V DSD).
Those were the 3 tunes on it and I can HEAR that same attack.
Rip Ben Wise (StuntDouble) & Mark Abrahamian (Rockstah)