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Thanx Ivan, you make some interesting observations. I wouldn't want
to make distortion the basis of my tone, but I really like the sound
that the Surf Coasters get on Rumble off their Surf is Dead CD.
But this brings me to another question. I heard somewhere that the JM
pups in the RI are not the original low/wide windings, but some wide
covers over more modern single coils. Is this true? Should they be
replaced with the Seymour Duncan version?
--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., IVAN PONGRACIC <ipongrac@g...> wrote:
> THEE undisputed king of extreme distortion Kevin Shields of My
Bloody
> Valentine only uses Jaguars and Jazzmasters, and his sound is a
thing of
> beauty. May not exactly be what you'd want to use for surf, but
> nevertheless... The guitars can do massive distortion. Also
remember
> that both Sonic Youth and Nirvana rely/ied on Jags and JMs, and they
> are/were no slooches when it comes to distortion. What you can't
really
> do as well on Jags/JMs is the soaring Hendrix/David Gilmour Strat
leads,
> just because they don't sustain as well, and sound different. But
the
> distorted tones will sound nice and ragged.
>
> Ivan
