Quantum Strummer
Senior Member
I play my NS Aristocrat unplugged nearly as often as plugged in. It's quite loud & punchy with nice high end presence. Very little bass, as you'd expect from a soundhole-less small body. Plugged in and at full guitar volume & tone the pickups hit an amp's initial gain stage pretty hard, a lot like P90s but with with more treble and less midrange. It's a guitar that benefits from being plugged straight into an amp…much more interactive via the pickups' direct output impedance than when using effects gizmos (which lowers the impedance of the signal hitting the amp quite a lot).
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