Which guitars/pickups work best with the Crispy Cream?
If you are playing a Stratocaster or Les Paul you may want to use “classic” type pickups. I’m not a big fan of high output, modern pickups. You’ll have enough gain as it is with this pedal. One way to maximize your tone is to change the height of your pickups. If your guitar sounds too bright your can lower the pickups away from the string. By contrast, your can add more treble to your sound by raising your pickups closer to the strings. If you have a Brian-May style guitar you should know the the relative height of each pickup to the others is very important. In general, the bridge pickup should be closer to the strings than the other two pickups. The middle and neck pickups are almost at the same height as one another, but the neck pickups is slightly lower. Changing the heights even slightly can make a big difference in your sound.
