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The Pickup Place / Re: Music man Silhouette hsh and its pickups
« on: October 01, 2018, 05:07:43 PM »
All the Music Man pickups are made by DiMarzio... unless they’re Duncans.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Vintage Dimarzio PAF Pickup
« on: August 08, 2018, 12:21:05 PM »
I don't know how much of a premium you would fetch for the older dimarzios. No idea if there's anything special about them. I mean I'd assume that a Super Distortion from the 70's would sound the same as a Super Distortion that was just freshly wound by dimarzio.

Well, it wouldnt sound the same, that much I'm sure of. Every pickup undergoes changes with aging, and mostly for the better in regard to vintage PAF's..

I’ve had some very early patent label Gibson humbuckers, so essentially PAFs. They weren’t that special. And I fact they came out of a ‘58 Les Paul that had been converted to humbuckers. The owner replaced them with these original DiMarzio PAFs, which were much better sounding pickups. This was in 1976.

Pickups don’t age. Not in a good way. Old plain enamel wire can develop cracks in the insulation which leads to shorts. People speculate that magnets age, but they really don’t.

And back then Gibson used whatever magnets or screws that were available. As long as the pickup worked it was good enough.

Everything else is in people’s imagination.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Al Di Meola (DP202) bridge...
« on: May 25, 2018, 02:17:20 PM »
I have one of these. It really is a great pickup.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Which DiMarzio is closest to SD Custom?
« on: May 17, 2018, 10:36:35 PM »
Ace Frehley and Tom Scholz also use the Super D.

Lots and lots of people used them back in the day. Al DiMeola used them too. 

Still a great pickup.



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I do it before the switch so not sure how that effects the resistance but It still lets quite a bit of high end through the way I do it. But your probably right though.

It’s just the way it is with two volume controls. Same with tone controls. It’s pointless having two because they interact.

That’s why I use a single volume and tone on my guitars. I rewired my ‘81 LP Standard that way too. Replaced the other two knobs with a Varitone and bass roll off.


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So I have always used 500k Pots in both my spots. However I use resistors to get different pot values for each pickup. through my use of resistors I have my neck value with a value of 250k and my bridge at 333k both going into the same 500k volume pot. So if youre using a 1M volume pot you have more options.

I have heard that alot of vintage gibson pots were actually higher than 500k. So if you have 1M Pots through a combo of resistors you have more options available to you for experimenting with Pot values.

Keep in mind that if you have both pickups on at the same time, those different pot values are out the window!

More precisely you end up with 142.8k across both pickups.


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A 1meg volume will be brighter... until you turn it down. To illustrate this, let’s suppose you are using a linear taper pot.

If you turn it to 50%, you have 500k to ground, but you also have 500k series resistance. That can dull the tone more that a 500k pot turned down.

I rarely play with my volume on anything but 10, but some people like to use that to clean the sound up.

A treble bleed circuit fixes it however.




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The Pickup Place / Re: EMG 81 vs EMG 85
« on: January 19, 2018, 01:02:21 PM »
The 58 is a nicer pickup than the 85. You can get those as a custom order. The 85 is an updated version with more balanced coils for less noise.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Initial Review of the DiMarzio Titan Bridge
« on: January 13, 2018, 11:15:31 PM »
But playability wise its basically the same as a sterling maj but the sterling pickups are crap.

You do know that DiMarzio makes all the EBMM pickups, right?


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The Pickup Place / Re: Charvel San Dimas with Evo Bridge - Pickup too BIG
« on: December 22, 2017, 12:35:27 PM »
Bring the guitar to have the cavity routed a little deeper. It's a fairly easy job.


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The Pickup Place / Re: EMG 81 vs EMG 85
« on: December 22, 2017, 12:29:21 PM »
The 81 is wound hotter with thinner gauge wire. The 85 is more like a PAF. Generally the 81 is used at the bridge position.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Has anyone swapped magnets in a super distortion?
« on: November 28, 2017, 02:55:04 PM »
An alnico magnet will soften the highs and make it sound similar to a Duncan JB. But it's still a lot of wire on the coils so it's darker sounding but almost the same output.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Wiring stacked hum as a single coil
« on: November 07, 2017, 02:13:39 PM »
Yes, it sounds "like" a single coil but it's not a single coil. And it's really bright sounding. According to Dimarzio it has treble 9, middle 4.5 and bass 4, so it's a bright pup.

Explain the difference between sounding like a single coil and not being a single coil.

Explain why that matters. I'll just assume you have no answer to that. I'm a pickup maker, so I'm not just voicing my opinion. 

It makes no difference in this situation.

Also you want it bright sounding. I'd guess it's the other pickup you are pairing with it that's preventing the quack tone. The two pickups should have a similar frequency response.

But keep looking for answers you like lol


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The Pickup Place / Re: Wiring stacked hum as a single coil
« on: October 31, 2017, 07:22:54 PM »
It sounds like a single coil already. To get those quack tones you want a bright sounding middle pickup.

Because of the way the VV is made, switching off the bottom coil won’t change the tone very much.

I use dual rail pickups in the middle and neck and get a good quack tone, which I hardy ever use. Lol. Not a fan of that tone for my own playing


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The Pickup Place / 74 les paul custom
« on: September 20, 2017, 05:46:34 PM »
Your guitar going out of tune is because of how you wrap the strings on the tuning posts. Don’t wrap more than 3 or 4 turns and don’t let the windings overlap.

Then you have to stretch the strings.

The fret buzz probably means you need to adjust the truss rod. This happens with the change of seasons and if you change string gauges or brands, due to the change in tension.

The pickups probably have the covers on them? That and the lack of wax potting is why they squeal. That’s why we always took the covers off back in the 70s.


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