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Old 06-15-2022, 10:15 AM
FrankHudson FrankHudson is offline
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I had a matte black 'gothic' studio model that had a star and moon 12th fret inlay for a while. It otherwise sounded similar to what you have. Nice guitar but wasn't the same sound as the standard I had, although likely down to pickups mostly, I guess.
Yup. Besides tastes (which vary) how different pickups react with different amps and effects chains really make a lot of the difference in how electric guitars sound. It's not uncommon for regular sized humbuckers to be uninspiring to me, but I think that may be because my tastes, amps, and effects are by now "formatted" for single-coil pickups.

Yours has the Gibson 490/498 pair from what I see. I'm not familiar with them personally.
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