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With just a bit more gain from the Colorsound it sounded wild and I had to bend down and tame the beast! The SSL5 is extremely responsive and dynamic when you roll down the volume on the guitar. I get the smooth sustain and that earpinching attack you can hear on some bootlegs from the Dark Side 1973-75 tours. I have struggled a bit with the Sun Face and its pronounced treble but now it sounds incredibly sweet. What I loved was the tone I got from the Sun Face+Colorsound combo. Maybe I’ll try the SSL1 one day and just compare the two.

On some stuff it can be just a tiny hint too dark and I don’t want to turn up the treble on my amp too much. If I was to point my finger on something, I would have wanted a bit more top… just a hair. It made a huge difference on the Muff+TD combo and I got some really nasty feedback, which was a cool ”whoa! Animals, dude!” moment but a bit too much when I came to my senses. Naturally, since the pickup has a higher output than the CS69, I needed to make some minor adjustments on some of the pedals to maintain my usual tone.

I was especially eager to hear the SSL5 on my live rig and how it sounded with my main pedal board. I get the sustain I need without cranking the compressor and the clean is incredibly rich. Instant love! It sounds warmer and fuller (in lack of a better word) than the CS69 and really does wonders to my ”home tone” as I have to keep the volume at a neighbour friendly level. I’ve tested it on my home rig – the old Marshall 5210 50w combo and the ”backup board” – and with the POD X3 and I must say that I’ve fallen in love with this pickup. I’ve always loved the CS69s but I felt that the bridge needed some balls. I installed it last weekend and I’ve been amazed over how much it change the tone in my guitar. It was fun and I got the chance to try out my new Duncan SSL5 bridge pickup. We did Echoes, Atom Heart Mother, Coming Back to Life and a couple of others.

Not much thinking going on there as we’ve been playing these songs for… erm… 10 years or so. Anyway, as we already was there we bashed the hell out of some old Floyd tunes. We were supposed to be working on some new songs yesterday but it was so freezing cold that we just gave it up. Sometimes it’s just too cold to do anything sensible.