weibassist
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i am a jazz player , could anyone give some suggestions if i need to buy to buy one between CE-100DP & T100 ?
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Squawk said:I agree with old crow. How much are you looking to spend?
teleharmonium said:I get a jazz sound from the neck Franz pickup on my '60 T 100 string with flatwound strings, which makes me very happy.
I would say either one would work well so long as you are using flats, but the deeper bodied CE model would be the more traditional choice.
I also have another T100 with the thin single coils ("Mickey Mouse pickups") which also gets a nice jazz sound on the neck pickup. With heavier strings and the original wooden bridge, you might be surprised how loud a model T100 is, played acoustically.
I wouldn't trade the jazz sound I get with any of my single coil pickup Guilds, for the sound one gets from a Gibson mudbucker. The Franz pickups are especially nice sounding. It's a common misconception that tight, defined, pronounced bass comes from higher output pickups - quite the contrary, the lower the output of a pickup, the more highs and lows it has, and the fewer mids. As you add windings, you change the tone toward a concentration in the midrange. This is why, for example, the very same Rickenbacker toaster pickup, having a a moderate output level by modern standards, can produce the characteristic chimey highs in their guitars and deep bass in the neck position of their older or reissue model bass guitars (it's literally the same 6 pole pickup used in both applications, the only differences are the type of mounting screws used for the pickup case because the bass version mounts on a pickguard).