Question H, HH, HS? Which is most popular?

[tbonesullivan]

Well... you've also got to remember that even if items were re-listed on amazon, they may have a new sales rank.

I'm surprised by the HS being so low though. It does have, IMHO, the biggest VARIETY of tones. With the HH, positions 2 and 4 are pretty much identical, and the neck H, for me, sounds kinda just too big and muddy. I'd rather have the S there, or just the bridge H.

 

[uOpt]

Well... you've also got to remember that even if items were re-listed on amazon, they may have a new sales rank.

I'm surprised by the HS being so low though. It does have, IMHO, the biggest VARIETY of tones. With the HH, positions 2 and 4 are pretty much identical, and the neck H, for me, sounds kinda just too big and muddy. I'd rather have the S there, or just the bridge H.

FWIW, I agree with both paragraphs.

But HS looks funny, that's probably the killer for many buyers.

 

[tbonesullivan]

I think mine looks just fine. I think though my next SR5 will be a single H. I want that vintage look, and also the series/parallel switching is nice. I have played HH ones before, but I always go back to the bridge pickup for everything. with the HS at least I actually found myself using the other positions.

Now I just need to find a blue single H that isn't old stock from the Ceramic days. This has to be Alnico.

 

[Gravesend Black]

I think mine looks just fine. I think though my next SR5 will be a single H. I want that vintage look, and also the series/parallel switching is nice. I have played HH ones before, but I always go back to the bridge pickup for everything. with the HS at least I actually found myself using the other positions.

Now I just need to find a blue single H that isn't old stock from the Ceramic days. This has to be Alnico.

Are you going to sell your ceramics SR5?

 

[tbonesullivan]

Definitely not. I just need another "flavor", as it were. I want something more "classic" sounding. With a rosewood board and alnico pickups, it should be a bit smoother than the SR5, which as far as I can tell, should sound pretty much identical to the Sterling 5. The sterling was, after all, originally a 4 string version of the Stingray 5. Then in 2008 they decided to make the SR5 sound more like the SR4, and introduced the Sterling 5.

 

[Gravesend Black]

Definitely not. I just need another "flavor", as it were. I want something more "classic" sounding. With a rosewood board and alnico pickups, it should be a bit smoother than the SR5, which as far as I can tell, should sound pretty much identical to the Sterling 5. The sterling was, after all, originally a 4 string version of the Stingray 5. Then in 2008 they decided to make the SR5 sound more like the SR4, and introduced the Sterling 5.

Yeah I know. But as for me the ceramics SR5 is like a border between regular SR and Sterling. There is something that makes it not the 100% Sterling. I like that it can be more aggressive like St but still have that BIG awesome SR5 body.

 

[tbonesullivan]

True, the big body and beefy neck definitely have to add something to the sound.