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The Pickup Place / Re: Neck Humbucker trick for removing mud/boom
« on: May 20, 2015, 03:41:30 AM »
Thanks Ray for sharing this. I need to try this sometime soon.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Breed Bridge in Les Paul
« on: May 20, 2015, 03:29:36 AM »
Unfortunately not. I only tried the Breed Neck in the bridge position.
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The Pickup Place / Re: PRS Custom 24 SE spacing?
« on: May 15, 2015, 07:43:16 AM »
Don't know about SE but the US trem equipped models are fine with standard spaced pickups.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Stacked or Rails? Big difference? Suggestions?
« on: May 15, 2015, 07:32:35 AM »
Just to clarify: H-S is not more powerful than H-S-S with the same bridge and neck pickups. It is just a simpler set up making the most use of the best properties for each type of pickup for a specific position. A humbucker is good in the bridge position because in series mode the signals that both coils pickup are added, therefore giving higher output and a bit more compression. In the neck spot however you have more string vibration so a pickup with a narrower field (e.g. a single coil or a single coil sized rail humbucker) cancels fewer high frequencies which are needed for clarity in the neck position.
H-S-S offers the same benefits insofar but there is no middle pickup to get in the way.
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H-S-S offers the same benefits insofar but there is no middle pickup to get in the way.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Stacked or Rails? Big difference? Suggestions?
« on: May 12, 2015, 03:46:18 AM »
If you don't have a use for the #2 and #4 positions consider a H-S set up (one bridge humbucker and one neck single coil). More oomph at the bridge where it's needed and more clarity in the neck where it is needed, too - really the best of both worlds. I could imagine that Air Zone and Satch Track would be a great combination.
Stacked is not a bad design in itself. There are better stacked designs with respect to the goal to make the pickup humcancelling and still have it sound like a single coil. Since that is not what you want, a rail design may suit you better.
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Stacked is not a bad design in itself. There are better stacked designs with respect to the goal to make the pickup humcancelling and still have it sound like a single coil. Since that is not what you want, a rail design may suit you better.
Cheers Stephan
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The Pickup Place / Re: Pair for chopper
« on: May 11, 2015, 01:25:57 PM »
I am in a similar situation at the moment. Currently I have (from bridge to neck) Chopper - Area 58 - Area 67 and considering to change the Areas to Cruisers - mainly because I find the Chopper too tame with the 250k pots in that guitar. The problem is that the Areas tend to get shrill with 500k pots.
If you want a high gain sound out of a 2203 without pedals the Chopper in the bridge may not be enough. In that case you might indeed like it better in the neck spot and go for something hotter in the bridge, e.g. the Super Distortion S, Tone Zone S or Pro Track. No experience with any of these, though so hopefully someone else will chime in.
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If you want a high gain sound out of a 2203 without pedals the Chopper in the bridge may not be enough. In that case you might indeed like it better in the neck spot and go for something hotter in the bridge, e.g. the Super Distortion S, Tone Zone S or Pro Track. No experience with any of these, though so hopefully someone else will chime in.
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The Pickup Place / Re: HSS rock pickups for hi gain and QUACK!
« on: May 11, 2015, 03:13:22 AM »
Neck pickup: Injector neck would do what you want. I would also use that for the middle position. Up to now my experience with the Cruisers is rather limited - I used one briefly in my Tele, liked it but replaced it with the Di Marzio Minibucker (DP-240) which I prefer.
Bridge: I don't have any experience with the Norton but the AT-1 would also do what you want.
One of my strats has a very similar set up - Bareknuckle Holydiver, Injector neck in the middle and Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues 2 in the neck, with 500k pots for volume and tone.
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Bridge: I don't have any experience with the Norton but the AT-1 would also do what you want.
One of my strats has a very similar set up - Bareknuckle Holydiver, Injector neck in the middle and Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues 2 in the neck, with 500k pots for volume and tone.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Chopper - Cruiser - Cruiser in a Strat
« on: May 10, 2015, 11:57:32 AM »
Finally scored a neck model on the bay after having been outbid four times. We will see how the conversion works.
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The Pickup Place / Re: DM Area T + Bill Lawrence L-500
« on: May 10, 2015, 11:55:08 AM »
The white wire is the series link. Put it to ground you run the pickup as a single coil.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Looking to try something between a 36th PAF and Tone Zone
« on: May 08, 2015, 03:47:22 AM »
Matt put it well.
Slugworth, I really was not questioning your guitar wiring abilities - sorry if it came across that way.
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Slugworth, I really was not questioning your guitar wiring abilities - sorry if it came across that way.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Stacked or Rails? Big difference? Suggestions?
« on: May 08, 2015, 03:39:26 AM »
From the suggestions given AZ and two Injector necks would be a good combo, especially since you plan to use them with a 500k volume pot. Keep in mind though that the Injector neck still sounds very much strat like and provides good quack with the 500k volume pot - the Injectors are designed for that and to keep up in volume with a stronger bridge pickup and 500k volume pot(s).
Of all the other options listed I only have experience with the Chopper, and that only in the bridge. My gut feeling says it is not really suited for the middle position but then I do not play much on the middle alone and use it mostly in combination with bridge or neck. I would try something brighter there, e.g. FT-1 or Satch Track. Neck position - also FT-1 or Satch Track.
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Of all the other options listed I only have experience with the Chopper, and that only in the bridge. My gut feeling says it is not really suited for the middle position but then I do not play much on the middle alone and use it mostly in combination with bridge or neck. I would try something brighter there, e.g. FT-1 or Satch Track. Neck position - also FT-1 or Satch Track.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Looking to try something between a 36th PAF and Tone Zone
« on: May 07, 2015, 03:22:21 AM »
It is quite hard for me to imagine how one could accidentally wire a pickup in parallel instead of series since it's a totally different wiring scheme. To me it would be more likely that the series linkage was not insulated properly or the insulation of one wire was damaged and touched a ground connection somewhere thereby making the pickup operate as single coil. Of course that would also have manifested in producing much more hum. If the hum level was the same my guess is it was defect in some unknown way.
I had only limited experience with the AT-1 (just about half an hour noodling on an Ibanez AT-100 in a store) but I did not hear anything bright and airy in it - loud, fat, rich in the mids and singing is as I would describe it.
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I had only limited experience with the AT-1 (just about half an hour noodling on an Ibanez AT-100 in a store) but I did not hear anything bright and airy in it - loud, fat, rich in the mids and singing is as I would describe it.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Chopper - Cruiser - Cruiser in a Strat
« on: May 04, 2015, 12:28:05 PM »I generally don't like the Chopper with 500k, but the cruisers demand it, so if you already know you like the Chopper with 500k, go for it. The Cruiser is an interesting pickup. If you find the chopper too bright, you can always use a resistor to drop the load until it sounds ok.
Ray, many thanks for this. Since I use a regular 5-way (not a 24 pole) I will try the "bending the rivets trick" if I need to use a resistor on the Chopper.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Chopper - Cruiser - Cruiser in a Strat
« on: May 04, 2015, 12:26:39 PM »I use the Chopper in the bridge of my strat with a pair of Fast Track 1's. Sounds great and covers a lot of ground.
That would also be an interesting combination but since I already have one Cruiser I will try that first.
Thanks,
Stephan
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The Pickup Place / Re: Chopper - Cruiser - Cruiser in a Strat
« on: May 04, 2015, 12:25:39 PM »Make the 2 vol/1 tone mod to your strat, and use 250kohm for the chopper bridge, and 500kohm for the cruisers, best of both worlds.
Thanks. I strongly prefer one master volume to two separate volumes. Besides, the Chopper with the 250k volume is not bright enough for me so I will try the set up with the 500k pot.
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