Today was the 1st time I rocked the new AL HH at practice. It was also the 1st time the Silhouette Special took a back seat for the most part in about 2 years. The AL just seems to have much more punch and sustain. Do not get me wrong, I still love the Silhouette Special and if I was more of a lead player I would probo stick with that since it has more of a mid / trebly range response. The Al HH reminds me of a LP with a lot more clarity. I feel you can hear the string separation real well, like each string has perfect articulation clean and distorted. Also in positions 2 & 4 it gives you a unique tone to the guitar itself. They sound amazing for a good clean finger style picking or the upstroke reggae / ska rhythms that I sometimes do. The body took me a little while to get adjusted to but now I feel it fits me like an old baseball glove. It is very well balanced. I play mainly a punk rooted style of music with a metal twist and I could not get this guitar to sound bad at all. Now I have and had my slew of guitars but this one has been what I think I have been looking for years for. Now one of my questions I have about the AL HH is what kind of Dimarzio pickups resembles the pickup the best in their line? I would not mind switching out the pickups in one of my other guitars to give a similar like tone. Now I wanted to give a big thanks to the guys at EBMM and BP for making such fine gear. Like I stated earlier my Silhouette Special has been my main guitar for about 2 years and now I have my AL, plus I am already thinking of what my next one will be. EBMM's are just everything I look for and what I want out of a guitar! Thanks!
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threeminutesboy
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Glad you like it. The Al Shape is indeed very comfortable and it is, at least to me, even greater than the strat shape
RocketRalf
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The bridge pickup is somewhere in between the Tone Zone and the Norton (not Air). The neck pickup is closest to an Air Norton.
jabba
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Thanks for the review. I've never played an Al HH but am really curious about how it sounds......reviews like yours help me to figure it out.......sounds like they are awesome
straycat113
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Blues Saraceno gives the AL HH a good workout on Youtube for those who would like to see the tonal capabilities. NoUse looking at your other axes you could probably get close by switching pups but you have to remember the AL HH has a Mahogany body and Rosewood neck so you are dealing with different woods. I mention that because it does have an effect, in the 80s I put DiMarzio Fast Tracks in my 85 62 reissue Tele that had a Rose Wood neck and it had a tone to die for so I figured I would do the same to a Black Face Tele I had with a Maple neck and it wound up being the worst sounding guitar I ever owned so go figure.
Spudmurphy
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So glad you are loving the AL. A fantastic guitar!!!
