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Originally Posted by Petty1818
It's funny, I still find the opposite. The tape seems to give a warmer, more balanced tone. The putty is fine but it seems to bring out the highs.
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Maybe the guitars? Hard to say. My installs have primarily been in dreadnoughts. I never actually did a proper A/B myself of putty vs tape in the same guitar. My most recent install with tape was also in a dreadnought, but a cedar top. Next string change I will swap to putty and do a comparison. I'm not sure if you seen this video from a different thread, Monsum was kind enough to take the time to do this comparison. In this demo, the tape install sounds brighter to my ears:
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Originally Posted by jonfields45
What we need is for someone to do a HFN putty install, then a tape reinstall, and then a cyanoacrylate reinstall and report back.
But I imagine there is some guitar to guitar variation that might favor one over the other that won't be factored out of this experiment. Has anyone glued one in and reported on the AGF?
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In my very first experience with this pickup I used the tape. I was quite happy with the sound I got but it did need some EQ. I knew it was going to be a keeper so I wanted to try glue and I used Loctite 495 and glued it in. In this instance, the glue and tape sounded very close to the same tonally, but the glue install was "hotter" which was kind of expected. A few days after that I decided to try the putty and that gave me a full sound that didn't require any EQ. This is what first made me favor the putty. Looking back now I think I had uneven contact with the tape/glue but the putty straightened it out. Whether it was the guitar or pickup causing the uneven contact I can't say for sure. That was in a carbon fiber guitar.
I did pass this info to Martingitdave a while ago and he used gorilla glue to install the pickup and made a thread about it. I vaguely remember him saying that he liked it at first and then eventually changed his opinion and removed it. Despite what I said to Petty above, maybe I'll try the loctite glue on my next string change instead of putty in that guitar. I won't use superglue in a wooden guitar ever again as it seeps into the bridge plate and is of course hard to clean up. I'm not sure if loctite will seep into the bridge plate but at least I know that it's really easy to clean up.