It's the perfect amount of gain, bell like tone, and clarity if you back off the attack and volume a bit. There is just so much tone in the ASAT special.
Anyway, MF is running a deal on the ASAT special with maple neck for the holidays and after trying two other guitars and knowing they would always be #2 compared to my ASAT, I decided what the heck, let me try another G&L. If its close to guitar I own already, it's a winner.
MY GOD. this guitar showed up with the best set up I have ever had on any guitar. just amazing and perfect. pickups the right distance from the strings, freight buzz non existent, the Neck straight and perfect. I know they pleck their guitars and it shows. Of course the neck profile is perfect for me. And the tone, from the newer MFD pickups? yep, very close and exception. I honestly didn't expect this instrument to live up to the one I had. I figured I had lucked into a magic instrument. My experience with Gibson, Heritage, Fender, ect, has been that the quality and set up varied from guitar to guitar and you had to kind of hunt for the right one. I bought a Kirn Barncaster a few years back and didn't love the pickups. It was a fine guitar and the laquer smell was amazing, but honestly, the playability of this instrument is better and I have never heard a pickup I liked better than the G&L MFDs. Super excited.
So tell me, what the heck is G&L doing and are they all this good out of the box?
