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The Pickup Place / VPAF Neck or...?

« on: December 09, 2016, 04:52:15 AM »

Hello all!

Later this month I should (emphasis on the should, by which I mean "I just might if I'm lucky") have enough money to buy a Virtual PAF Neck pickup I found, for my PRS SE Custom 245 (which already has the Virtual PAF bridge installed), or I would also be open to another pickup. I absolutely love my VPAF bridge, but I'm not sure about the neck. I am looking for something MUCH brighter than the stock SE bass humbucker (I think that's what it is), with an output that will match well with the bridge. I was directed to the Bluesbucker, which is supposed to sound like a P90, and has also received stellar reviews on this forum for what I am looking for, but for that my question would be if it is low enough in output to match with the VPAF bridge? Thanks!

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The Pickup Place / Pickup to pair with a PAF Master Bridge

« on: June 06, 2016, 02:49:53 PM »

Hello! I'm looking for a pickup to go with my PAF Master Bridge pickup, as stated above. I would like for this one to be warmer and fuller, in a way that complements the tone of the Master in the middle position. I would prefer to stay Dimarzio, but I am open to other companies as well. The guitar is an ESP LTD EC, which I presently have drop tuned to drop A (that was fun x) ).

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Guitar Lounge / SSS Guitars

« on: May 27, 2016, 01:10:44 PM »

So, I've been doing a lot of reading up on the subject, and I want to try some noise-free single coil guitars. That said, I have yet to find a strat or tele that feels comfortable. What alternatives are there to these guitars that is ss/sss? All Ibanez guitars I've seen are HSH if they have three pickups, and the only other sss guitar I've seen was by ESP, a Japanese artist's signature model. I just had a ngd, so I'm not looking to buy right now, I'm just curious if there's anything out there (I just added a PRS SE Custom 245 to my rig, in addition to the ESP LTD EC256 I'm still getting DiMarzio pickups for). The SE and LTD necks are by far my preference as far as feel, and if I had to choose one for just feel it would be the PRS.

P.S. I am aware that with the adapters, you can make any humbucker slot fit a single coil, and that p90's are technically single coils, however I am talking about strat/tele style pickups.

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The Pickup Place / Humbuckers Noiseless When Split Clarification

« on: April 19, 2016, 07:12:29 PM »

Hello all! This is my first time posting on a pickup forum, but it's only because I haven't been able to find what I want to know this time.

Basically what I am wanting is a humbucker that retains its noiseless properties when split, but is more like a real single coil, i.e. not rails.

I am aware of the Lace Sensor Duallys, and was wondering why no one else had done something similar with other stacked humbuckers like the Area series, so I emailed Dimarzio asking if they had considered doing something like this. I was responded to with the statement that they hadn't done it because of "issues with magnetic interaction and hum cancellation." How does this problem occur?

Thanks in advance.