Guitar way too distorted

kurtzs59 · May 01, 2008, 10:00:03 AM

I'm using a Les Paul and a Strat with my Micro BR. The Strat sounds fine- I can get clean tones, brown tones, and distorted tones. But because the LP has humbuckers, I think the signal is just way too strong, and everything turns to mush/fizz- harder to get brown tones without pushing it way into overdrive.

I know three ways to work around this: I can roll back the volume, turn down the sens, or turn down the pre-amp in the effects settings. Still, I'm not happy with the sound of this guitar on the Micro BR. How do others deal with this problem?

guitarron · May 01, 2008, 01:09:34 PM

No offense-but are they crappy pickups-I had a 80's paul once upon a time that had factory pickups, i think made by bill lawrence co. at the time mid to late 80's, that were microphonic-
Had the coils potted and everything-still didn't like them
How does the guitar sound to you in a more traditional setup with an actual amp?

kurtzs59 · May 01, 2008, 02:53:58 PM

Well, I do get a good sound when I play it out of my amp. I suppose the LP is a little dark, but I get some nice chimey tones and some snappy clean tones, depending on where the pickup switch is set. And of course distorted it gives that LP "roar" or whatever you want to call it. I know some people like to swap out the stock pickups, but I've liked the sound so far. It's just when I play it through the BR. I still get pretty good clean sounds through the BR, but distorted seems to be all-or-nothing. I'm also using mostly the default effect patches; I've modified a few of them.