KH-2 Vintage too hot/trebly??

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    KH-2 Vintage too hot/trebly??

    Hi guys!

     

    I was just trying the KH-20 and I noticed that, swapping to the KH-2 Vintage, the KH-2 sounded very trebly/hot compared to the KH-20.

     

    Then, I tried the KH-2 Ouija and sounded way similar to the KH-20, more fat/powerful...swapped again to the KH-2 Vintage and sounded too much trebly compared to the other two.

     

    Of course, you can adjusat EQ in the amp/Axe/Kemper, but I found strange that, same wood, same pickuos, the KH-2 Vintage sounds more trbly and like with more "gain", more hot....do you guys have noticed something similar comparing the Vintage to other KH???

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    SteelEdge
    SteelEdge wrote

    Yep, sound different definitely...which is not a bad thing at all.

     

    My obssesion was to know if there was something "wrong" that made it sound different, maybe a different cap in the tone pot or whatever...but definitely they have different character.

     

    Indeed, the KH-2 Vintage sounds better with fat amps like Soldano, while the Ouija seems to interact better with Marshall oriented amps....always to my taste, of course.

     

     

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      Pushead
      Pushead wrote

      For the first year or so I had my Ouija (well, a KH-2 with Moon and Star inlays that was later painted with the Ouija) it always sounded muffled and weak compared to my other EMG equipped guitars.  I assumed it was because of the paint on the pickups.

      At some point, I was finally frustrated enough to take the electronics apart and re-soldered all of the connections.  After that, it sounds more along the lines of what I expected.

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        DanieLibuy
        DanieLibuy wrote

        I think its just the way the guitar sounds. You can have the same pickups, the same pots, everything, but they will never be (of course) the same wood. Wood matters a lot, even with EMG pickups.

        Regards.

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