I am customizing a guitar with a lot of different tones, but the most important one is the jazz neck pickup – I want that mellow, chimey, bell-like jazz guitar sound, primarily for solo jazz. I am currently using a dearmond jazz pickup in the neck, and it sounds pretty darn good. I am wondering if Gibson Classic 57′s or another jazz pickup would work even better. Eager to hear thoughts and/or suggestions.
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Oooooo, "if it ain’t, broke don’t fix it…"
Changing out a pickup isn’t too time consuming, but you’ll have to buy the thing first. And no matter how much information you collect, you won’t know what it really sounds like till it’s in your guitar and run through your setup.
And anyway, once you have a "jazz guitar" and a "jazz pickup," the only thing left to make that hardcore smooth jazz tone (which I think is what you’re describing) is to get a "jazz amp." An old school tube amp would do the trick, for sure.
Oh man, though, I just realized, if you’re dead set on switching out pickups, consider a P-90, too. For mellow, chimey, and (once the tone’s rolled off) bell like, that would do the trick.
But then, "talking about music is like dancing about architecture," so again, "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it."
Hope that’s helpful!