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[Spankie]

I own a G&L Legacy. It's a beautiful Sea Foam Green with a rosewood finger board.
It's beautiful and very comfortable to play but it sounds tinny in all 5 pickup positions.
I think a pickup swap might improve on the sound. I'm not handy with a soldering iron and I really don't know much about pickups.
I would be most appreciative for some suggestions. I need a fuller sound with a little more output.
Thanks

 

[johnnyASAT]

Fuller sound… more output…

Sounds like you should have picked up an S-500 or a Comanche (joking). I know nil about Strat pickups, but G&L’s MFDs are no joke and relatively inexpensive compared to some of the nicer Alnico pickups out there.

 

[JDB2]

Fuller sound… more output…

Sounds like you should have picked up an S-500 or a Comanche (joking). I know nil about Strat pickups, but G&L’s MFDs are no joke and relatively inexpensive compared to some of the nicer Alnico pickups out there.

I agree about MFDs. But any Strat pickups will work in a Legacy, so you should be able to learn about an immense range of options by searching online.

 

[beyer160]

I own a G&L Legacy. It's a beautiful Sea Foam Green with a rosewood finger board.
It's beautiful and very comfortable to play but it sounds tinny in all 5 pickup positions.
I think a pickup swap might improve on the sound. I'm not handy with a soldering iron and I really don't know much about pickups.
I would be most appreciative for some suggestions. I need a fuller sound with a little more output.
Thanks

The Legacy is a guitar that really requires the operator to use the tone controls. Unlike a Strat, knobs at 10 is not usually the optimal configuration. I often find myself rolling off the treble a little.

The CLF-100 pickups are regular alnico 5 Strat style pickups, mine are about 6.8k, 6.9k and 7.1k which puts them on the strong side of "vintage" without being overwound. Unless you go for an overwound set, you won't see much difference replacing the stock pickups with other Strat styles, I think the CLF-100s are really quite good. The key to the Legacy sound is the PTB control circuit, which gives a much wider range of controls than the Strat. Rolling off both treble and bass together focuses the sound on the midrange. The only thing I like better about a Strat is the ability to roll off the tone on the neck pickup only, for use with a Fuzz Face.

 

[Lacking Talent]

I own a G&L Legacy. It's a beautiful Sea Foam Green with a rosewood finger board.
It's beautiful and very comfortable to play but it sounds tinny in all 5 pickup positions.
I think a pickup swap might improve on the sound. I'm not handy with a soldering iron and I really don't know much about pickups.
I would be most appreciative for some suggestions. I need a fuller sound with a little more output.
Thanks

In addition to the preceding suggestions, you might want to adjust your pickups' heights so as to get their polepieces closer to the strings; not so close that the magnets "pull" on the strings -- that's "Stratitis" (which is bad) -- but close enough to generate beefier signal.

 

[johnnyASAT]

Wish I had checked out the G&L clearance sale sooner. There was a sick Olympic White Doheny Tribute for $260 that I would have gone for. Sadly sold out.

 

[Gabrielle84]

I had the same thought earlier today when I got the email and checked out the same exact guitar.

 

[hank]

2010-ish deep v neck

 

[badscrew_projects]

G&L « factory second » neck plus various parts. Was able to bring this neck back to life (it had various blemishes and wood defects). So this is at least a little bit G&L.

 

[tehuti]

I only owned G&L basses since selling my ASAT Special several years ago. But I recently found this beautiful Tribute ASAT Classic Bluesboy.

 

[dukewellington]

Coming soon to my doorstep. Alder body Fullerton Deluxe ASAT Classic Bluesboy. Can’t freaking wait!

 

[Heyhey]

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Coming soon to my doorstep. Alder body Fullerton Deluxe ASAT Classic Bluesboy. Can’t freaking wait!

Beautiful sunburst. I'm a fan of their sunbursts.

 

[dukewellington]

Beautiful sunburst. I'm a fan of their sunbursts.

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Nice taste in color, there. Love a dark sunburst.

Here’s a photo of the new Fullerton Deluxe ASAT Classic Bluesboy. It arrived today.

I’m fairly blown away by how nice it is, coming from the perspective of playing many Tributes in the past. Fit and finish is spot on. The finish looks like marble or glass. The polished bone nut is a thing of beauty — it’s also very chimey, imparts a solid tactile feel to the notes on the lower frets, and sounds very clear. Frets are plek’d and level, bends are effortless. The fretboard feels very hard and I’m not sure if they stained it or not but it has a hue that I think looks good. The overall feel of the instrument is elegant and musical, and also very functional.

I think most guitarists would get the “feel” descriptor. You pick it up and go, “oh yeah… damn, that feels right.” There’s just something about it that bonds immediately and makes me want to play it more.

No shade on the Tribute line. I like those a lot and have owned several. But the Fullerton here is much nicer than I expected. Circa $1400 shipped, I don’t think I’ve ever played a nicer guitar that’s American made for that price before. I wouldn’t call G&L a sleeper guitar but I do believe they offer outstanding value and unique style that tends to be overlooked. It’s as if G&L reinvented the mousetrap.

A2 in the neck was 110% the right call on this particular guitar. It both quacks and barks. You can get a lot of different sounds, between the amplifier’s tone controls and the knob and switch on the guitar. I’m excited to hear it with the band soon. Hoping to replace the three guitars that I often bring with me.

 

[beep.click]

I must have six or seven of these now, including a red Bluesboy and another T style with a P90 in the neck. The last arrived about six months ago, a double bound Comanche with red sparkle finish. I'd love to post a picture, but I just can't do that finish justice.

That may seem like a lot of guitars, but every one was a right place, right time crazy deal.

 

[Maguchi]

I picked up both a these new sometime around 2016 or 2017. A ASAT Bluesboy and a ASAT Classic S. Both great playing and sounding guitars with quality workmanship throughout.

 

[dukewellington]

I picked up both a these new sometime around 2016 or 2017. A ASAT Bluesboy and a ASAT Classic S. Both great playing and sounding guitars with quality workmanship throughout.

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Gorgeous geetars, there.

How are the MFD pickups in the Classic S? Are they any different than the pickups they put in the ASAT tee style guitars? My first reaction is that strat tone is so distinct, it would be a little harder to capture the round and bouncy sound of a Stratocaster than a Telecaster, when redesigning a pickup? .

 

[Maguchi]

Gorgeous geetars, there.

How are the MFD pickups in the Classic S? Are they any different than the pickups they put in the ASAT tee style guitars? My first reaction is that strat tone is so distinct, it would be a little harder to capture the round and bouncy sound of a Stratocaster than a Telecaster, when redesigning a pickup? .

Not really up on the diffrent G&L pickups. My recollection is that the "MFD" pickups were the bigger and wider almost P90 like pickups that are only on the ASAT Special. The ASAT Classic S has a Tele size pickup in the bridge and Strat size pickups in the middle and neck. Kind of like a Nashville Tele. The pickups on my ASAT S sound like a hotter version of a typical Tele bridge pickup and two Strat pickups.

 

[Heyhey]

Not really up on the diffrent G&L pickups. My recollection is that the "MFD" pickups were the bigger and wider almost P90 like pickups that are only on the ASAT Special. The ASAT Classic S has a Tele size pickup in the bridge and Strat size pickups in the middle and neck. Kind of like a Nashville Tele. The pickups on my ASAT S sound like a hotter version of a typical Tele bridge pickup and two Strat pickups.

The standard ASAT classic uses tele-sized MFDs (there’s one in the bridge position on my Bluesboy 90). The ASAT classic alnico has traditional style tele pickups.

 

[JDB2]

Gorgeous geetars, there.

How are the MFD pickups in the Classic S? Are they any different than the pickups they put in the ASAT tee style guitars? My first reaction is that strat tone is so distinct, it would be a little harder to capture the round and bouncy sound of a Stratocaster than a Telecaster, when redesigning a pickup? .

My experience is that the MFD Strat style pickups (like in the S-500, Skyhawk, and Classic S) do a nice rendition of a Strat tone, but hotter and with stronger, more balanced midrange. Keep in mind the pickups were designed to be an improvement by the folks who knew better than anyone else what makes a Strat a Strat. I doubt round and bouncy was the design objective though.

 

[JDB2]

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