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#64,484
Gaolee said:
I like the '66 based on the clip. You can always roll off the volume just a hair if you need to. You can't turn it up to 12 if it only goes to 11.

I couldn't agree more about it not being a "shootout" but just a side to side comparison of three, and now four outstanding options. It tells me my 2001 will keep its stock pickups and keep Black Beauties. It also tells me the '91 is probably going to get a set of Thunderbucker 66 pickups one of these days. Probably with Cobalt Flats. Just to be ornery.
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Haha! Based on those clips as well as a few gigs, I’m more than happy with my stock ‘14 Gibson and Black Beauty’s. That’s a winning combo, in my book. Not sure what I’m gonna do with the ‘02, but I really would love to hear a set of ‘63’s with a series/parallel option. I’m my mind, that could be awesome. My tiny little mind :/
 
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dukeorock said:
Haha! Based on those clips as well as a few gigs, I’m more than happy with my stock ‘14 Gibson and Black Beauty’s. That’s a winning combo, in my book. Not sure what I’m gonna do with the ‘02, but I really would love to hear a set of ‘63’s with a series/parallel option. I’m my mind, that could be awesome. My tiny little mind :/
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Thing about the '01 with Black Beauties is that it can lay back and be soft and have a round, dark maroon sound, or it can step up, bark, and suddenly turn all orange and electric blue. I don't like having any tan in the sound. That's the sound of a Jazz.

The '91 with Chinabuckers is pretty good, too, but with a set of '66 Thunderbuckers, it might challenge the '01 for pixie dust status.
 
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Gaolee said:
By the way, that Jazz tan is a kind of damp, murky, sickly yellow tan with just a little green, but not enough to make it interesting. It's nothing like the fresh mahogany dry tan that a P has for overtones.
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Umm, yes... I was just thinking that exact same thing :)

When Dylan was recording Nashville Skyline, he was using some old timers. A list country pickers. There’s a great bit where the older steel player looks up at Dylan and says, “Tell you what, I’ll just keep playing and you tell me when it sounds purple.”
 
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Gaolee said:
I like the '66 based on the clip. You can always roll off the volume just a hair if you need to. You can't turn it up to 12 if it only goes to 11.

I couldn't agree more about it not being a "shootout" but just a side to side comparison of three, and now four outstanding options. It tells me my 2001 will keep its stock pickups and keep Black Beauties. It also tells me the '91 is probably going to get a set of Thunderbucker 66 pickups one of these days. Probably with Cobalt Flats. Just to be ornery.
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Trust me: Neck 63N Bridge 66B with 'wide stance' spacing...covers it all, especially with stacked pots for those who don't eschew tone controls...
 
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Dadagoboi said:
Trust me: Neck 63N, Bridge 66B with 'wide stance' spacing...covers it all, especially with stacked pots for those who don't eschew tone controls...
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Something like this...
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Thanks @bholder !
 
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