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DimarzioForum.Com => The Pickup Place => Topic started by: Wamba on March 21, 2018, 11:31:43 AM

Title: Area T Neck & Area T Hot Bridge
Post by: Wamba on March 21, 2018, 11:31:43 AM

Greetings, first-time poster...

I recently upgraded my G&L ASAT Tribute Classic with Area T pickups.

The stock pickups (MFD) sounded great but they didn't do higher gain stuff well and squeal like a pig when the volume gets up. So, after a ton of research, I purchased a set of Area T's from a guy on Reverb.com. I also upgraded the electronics (purchased from a guy who custom builds guitar electronics), new CTS pots, cloth covered wiring, treble bleed and PTB/Bass contour.

A friend (electrical engineer) help me install the "new" pickups (using DiMarzio diagrams and instructions) and double check all of the electronic connections.

This set-up sounds amazing. Great cleans, twangs like a Tele on steroids and they can bring the ROCK.

The pickups are nearly dead quiet when clean and twangy but get surprisingly noisy (worse than the original MFD's) in higher gain settings.

So, here's my question, is this "normal" or did I miss something?

Title: Re: Area T Neck & Area T Hot Bridge
Post by: Wamba on March 22, 2018, 03:14:03 PM

I think I have narrowed the noise down to a Joyo American Sound that for whatever reason doesn't seem to get along with these new pickups. These pickups sound amazing by the way!

Title: Re: Area T Neck & Area T Hot Bridge
Post by: darkbluemurder on April 18, 2018, 04:31:09 AM

I have the same set and mine are very quiet even in higher gain settings.

Cheers Stephan