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Jonny

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Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« on: October 11, 2008, 01:30:40 PM »
I pretty much asked the question in the topic title. A straight forward answer would be appreciated thanks :)
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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2008, 06:27:13 PM »
I don't think its a case of which would be better as that depends on preference.

The mahogany body guitar is going to be a heavier wood so you would get more low end tones maybe abit more bass too.

As for the basswood body it is quite light weight so you would probably find that it would make the highs in the tones abit higher and pronounced

But in both types you are still going to get a fast/tight bass response as the MM has a Ceramic magnet.

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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2008, 08:28:29 PM »
you gotta know what wood do you prefer
some people prefer this pup on basswood, but for my tastes, mahogany will always be better for most pickups
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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2008, 10:38:14 PM »
I don't usually match pickups with guitars, I usually have a guitar then go for pickups. But I have two choices for what the guitar will be. A basswood or mahogany guitar.

But from responses I think basswood is more my thing. But I suppose if I did go for mahogany I'd get a little bit of everything.
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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2008, 09:39:31 AM »
Has the Basswood guitar got a trem?

I was talking to tim about a Basswood guitar, and he said:

"Basswood is relatively neutral to bright with a trem so you can comfortably go quite hot" He recommended me a C Pig or PK. But it probably depends on what you want from it as to what wood to choose.
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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2008, 09:50:56 PM »
No, neither have trems. And I already have the MMs, lol..
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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2008, 10:48:43 PM »
Try them in both :) All is costs is a set of strings and maybe an hour of your life.
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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2008, 12:22:20 AM »
Try them in both :) All is costs is a set of strings and maybe an hour of your life.
And a guitar, I don't own either.
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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2008, 12:41:55 AM »
I thought you put Miracle man set in an ibanez with flowery front?

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Re: Miracle Man Set better in Mahogany or bassswood?
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2008, 02:30:12 AM »
I thought you put Miracle man set in an ibanez with flowery front?
That was the intial idea before matters rose and I didn't put them in. And Tim recommended them for it, and it's basswood too so I think I'm gonna go with basswood
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