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The Pickup Place / Re: EC preamp with Areas

« Last post by gregr on May 03, 2025, 01:38:47 PM »

It’s really no different from using a pedal on the floor.

As far as bumping the output is concerned, the Areas are on par with traditional single coils.

That out of the way, the EC mid boost should work as expected. With the possible exception of the Injector Bridge and perhaps Virtual Solo, the Area/Virtual Vintage pickups already run lean so they might sound a little thin. The HS series is supposed to be fatter sounding and may do better. It has been a long time since I heard that particular circuit so consider this little more than hand-waving.

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The Pickup Place / Re: My Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review

« Last post by nienturi on May 03, 2025, 01:41:48 AM »

Excellent review. I think you captured a fair description of this pickup. I have it in two strat style guitars right now, and have had it in other guitars, including a Les Paul.  One thing about this pickup I found is that it doesn't overide the characteristics of the guitar it's in. Each guitar still sounds like the guitar it's in. This is good if your guitar sounds good naturally, but it might not be the right pickup for fixing a paticular characteristic of a guitar you don't like.

Enough output in my opinion, too.

Thank you so very much for your reply.

You have mentioned i never could experienced. I put it on my custom JS style guitar and i really did fall in love with it. Part of me wants to try it on some other guitars and the rest part tells me to f*ck off, awesome where it belongs
But still i wonder how will it sound on my fat strat. I need another PAF 36th

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The Pickup Place / EC preamp with Areas

« Last post by LPBII on May 02, 2025, 10:10:38 PM »

Has anybody tried this?

I'm just thinking out loud, but this may be a good way to bump up power without losing the strattyness, or at least you can get it back with the turn of a knob.

What about the EC preamp with true singles? Or would the noise make it unusable once it's boosted?

I still like the tone and response of true singles better when possible, but I haven't gained a lot of experience using Areas.

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The Pickup Place / Re: My Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review

« Last post by LPBII on May 02, 2025, 09:56:28 PM »

Excellent review. I think you captured a fair description of this pickup. I have it in two strat style guitars right now, and have had it in other guitars, including a Les Paul.  One thing about this pickup I found is that it doesn't overide the characteristics of the guitar it's in. Each guitar still sounds like the guitar it's in. This is good if your guitar sounds good naturally, but it might not be the right pickup for fixing a paticular characteristic of a guitar you don't like.

Enough output in my opinion, too.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by KH Guitar Freak on April 24, 2025, 02:29:26 AM »

Plenty of great choices to be had. I personally own a Tone Zone/HS2/Air Norton combination with a push pull coil split. Works great

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The Pickup Place / Re: Which Pickup Features Which Technique

« Last post by darkbluemurder on April 21, 2025, 08:52:23 AM »

Done - thanks!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Which Pickup Features Which Technique

« Last post by nienturi on April 17, 2025, 01:53:42 AM »

36th Anniversary PAF Bridge (DP-223) - Airbucker

May i request an update please?
PAF 36th has Virtual Vintage tech, too.

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The Pickup Place / My Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review

« Last post by nienturi on April 12, 2025, 05:14:38 AM »

Hello,

This is my Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review. Hope you like it

https://www.tonejourney.com/post/dimarzio-paf-36th-anniversary-dp223-review

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by gregr on March 31, 2025, 09:42:34 PM »

Nice switching ideas, thanks for sharing.

Thanks. I like yours as well.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 31, 2025, 04:13:52 AM »

I also find that position 2 quack sounds better when splitting to the outer coil.

Agreed. It has just that little bit of extra glass compared to the inner coil.

My HSH is The Breed Neck in the bridge

Great choice.

The switching is as follows:
1: bridge
2: middle
3: bridge and neck inner coils connected in series with a passive filter to reduce bass and midrange.
4: middle and neck outer coils; again, connected in series and filtered.
5: neck or neck in parallel with the bridge. There’s a push-pull on the tone control to add the bridge to the neck, which only works in this position.
All positions are hum-cancelling.

If I had a second HSH it would be as follows, borrowing from things I’m already doing in other guitars:

Bridge: JB/Screamin’ Demon hybrid; JB coil on the outside in parallel with the middle for position 2.

Middle: A traditional single coil, perhaps a True Velvet, but that would depend on what magnets I use in the humbuckers. The middle would only get used in positions 2 & 4. Position 3 would combine bridge and neck humbuckers.

Neck: Screamin’ Demon/Full Shred Neck hybrid; Demon coil on the outside in parallel with the middle for position 4.

Nice switching ideas, thanks for sharing.

Cheers Stephan