Re: Reguarding brightness...
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Originally posted by kottkewannabe
Remember that "Turn, Turn, Turn" and other Byrds' stuff was done with flatwound strings. Trying that might help a bit.
True, but those early Byrds songs had lots of treble boost and the old '60s Ric circuit actually had a .0047uF cap in series with the bridge PUP to brighten it up(which many players removed)! In the studio, Roger used 2 compressors direct to the board with lots of EQ. Live, he used a VOX treble booster into a Dual-Showman - been there, done that & that combination will take your head off! In later material he backed off the highs quite a bit. A more 'normal' west-coast Ric/Fender sound would be Paul Katner's sound with the Airplane or some of the recent C&W material.
The old Ric flatwounds were cool too and I wish they'd bring them back. The Pyramids are nice, but my favorites were the nylon tape wound Maxims. No string noise, but brighter than the nickel flatwounds.