Le PAF Joe est différent du PAF Pro, oui. Un peu plus rond, organique et polyvalent. Il a un peu la caractéristique du Fred : des harmoniques qui sortent très facilement, et il réagit énormément à l'attaque du médiator. Le PAF Pro est plus "clean" plus passe partout, par contre il garde un avantage léger en son splitté, plus convainquant.
Voici une review en anglais que j'ai faite du PAF Joe. Ce sont des 1ères impressions car je n'ai ce micro que depuis peu, et je n'ai pas d'ampli sérieux en ce moment
Citation:
I put Fred bridge and PAF Joe neck in my PRS Custom 22. I plan to use it like my "jack-of-all-trade" guitar.
First impressions:
Well about PAF Joe: I really dig it. No, I LOVE it!
Warm but clear, balanced, bass are tight, but not too much. Bass have a tight attack, then are blooming after. Superb! Treble are there too and add "bite" to the tone which give clarity in the high gain department, but the PU is no harsh at all. Artificial harmonics are easy to obtain, not usual for a neck PU. It reminds me the FRED in bridge position for that. But the best quality of this PU: dynamic. Play soft, and the tone is soft and warm, bluesy or jazzy if you want. Play hard, and treble wake up, the PU is biting, output increase.
It has all the qualities of a FRED PU but doesn't sound like a Fred in the neck. It is definitly PAFish, not "progressive" like the FRED.
Rock, blues, jazz, shred: it can do it. Period.
The FRED in bridge is really a winner too from traditional rock to shred. Not metal or nu-metal, but everything else. If you have a good guitar, with good resonance and tone quality and don't want to use too powerful PUs (which sometimes kill the tone of the wood/guitar), this combo is pretty killer.
The middle position (Fred+PJ out of phase) is bass and treble-high mids , less low-mids. The tone is thinner, a bit weaker, but very good for tight rythm distorted stuff. Rythm in the middle, and solo with either neck (bluesy solo, smooth) or bridge (rock, bitey!)
My PRS Custom 22 has a woody dark round tone, with warm and sustain. The Fred + PAF Joe wake up the tone without killing it. It rocks!
Ced777
Après avoir été un utilisateur pendant des années de Duncan (très bons, mais typés...) , je suis revenu à la polyvalence des DiMarzio.
