Try any PAF copy or replica spec 8-9k. Totally another world for the 100watter. Been sayin this all along. Its night and day from the higher output p/u's. Dynamics and crunch has way more body and vintage texture. I am sure it all translates to the 50w.evh0u812 wrote:Thats so true about the pickup combination and what this amp likes. I was falling out of love with mine a little as channel 2 was sounding too compressed and just not open enough. Ive been playing a Pat Pend PV Wolf and never thought that the highoutput bridge pickup was the cause of it . Rewound the pickup to a nice 10.2k and the amp just blooms. Best thing for both the guitar and amp by a long shot.
The ONLY reason to use a hot pickup is to get more gain. Well-this amp already has an assload of it. Try a pickup for eq response and not drive characteristic. Other wise your passin the gain that was on the first records and are gonna literally be two times too much to get the brown most want to hear.