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The Pickup Place / Re: Neck & middle singles for metal/rock strat

« on: November 02, 2016, 01:31:40 PM »

I highly recommend AT-1 for bridge which, btw, blends perfectly with FT-1 in middle for in between position (reminds a little of that "quack", but with little volume drop).
It probably won't do uber-precise djent type of (down tuned) riffing, but it does standard drop D pretty well (which is what I use).
It does excellent classic 80s hard rock stuff, fluid leads, and beefy power chord riffing.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Virtual Hot Paf or AT-1

« on: October 27, 2016, 06:17:05 AM »

I would also recommend AT-1, since a PAF style pickup in bridge position can be too quiet for a similar neck pickup.
Plus, in a guitar like the Tele of the OP a AT-1 will sound best for crunch to higain. I personally do like it for cleans and semi cleans, since it is not as shrill as many (PAFish) bridge humbuckers. All in all AT-1 is not as far awayfrom a PAF sound in general, it just isn't as glassy and will sound fuller. It does VH brown tones with ease!

In one of my guitars I have a AT-1 in bridge, which I can switch to parallel. This is a great sound, not single coilish at all, just a bit thinner and lower in output. Works great for crunch and mid gain sounds.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Install Your PAF Joe the correct way.

« on: October 27, 2016, 05:56:14 AM »

How do we knox, which orientation is "right"?
I recently installed an Air Classic neck with the cable facing to the pots (which was btw the only way the fitted into the cavitiy). Don't know if it is dual res.
Now I wonder, if I might try the other orientation one day...?

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The Pickup Place / Re: Medium to high output dark sounding bridge pickup

« on: April 20, 2016, 01:30:50 AM »

Ever considered the AT-1?
I would not consider it as dark or dull, since it has lots of like something everyone refers to "complex harmonics". I can't describe it better. But there is no ice pick, and it is well rounded in the highs and upper mids, and the "main" mids sit just right to work perfectly with modern hot rodded Marshall tones.
It's just a very, very good sounding bridge pickup, for me it is THE bridge pickup, I like it even better than the Music Man Axis custom.
It may or may not be best suited for fast tuned down higain riffing, since this is not, what I play.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Air Norton in the neck is too boomy, hot, round, and tubular

« on: March 24, 2016, 10:01:50 AM »

Either don't know about the unmatched coils or parallel sound, but for fat but clear not boomy neck humbucker sound try the PAF 36th bridge for neck.
I have a non f-spaced one in the neck one of my guitars and it's really impressive.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Pro Track or Air Norton S....

« on: March 13, 2016, 07:50:56 PM »

Depends on what you want. I have both in the neck of 25.5 scale ash or alder guitars. Both are similar in output level, while the ANS is fuller, darker, more bassy and more middy.
The PT works better for clean and light crunch, does heavy crunch and hi gain fairly well.
The ANS does higain leads so well, it has such a good attack you'd not expect this from it considering it's clean and crunch performance.

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The Pickup Place / Re: AT-1 + Chopper + Chopper Wiring Recommendations

« on: March 13, 2016, 07:37:37 PM »

I have two SSH guitars with AT-1's,  two blade hum/singles and a 5way megaswitch each.
I wired them like this, with no splitting or parallel wiring of a single pickup involved:
Pos. 1 Bridge HB
Pos. 2 Bridge HB parallel middle blade HB
Pos. 3 Bridge HB parallel neck  blade HB
Pos. 4 midde blade HB
Pos. 5 neck blade HB
So I have the three Les Paul like sounds plus two Stratish ones.

Now if you use the Push/pull switches you could stratify the guitar even more, but I have no idea how good the Choppers split...

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The Pickup Place / Re: HH mahagony guitar. AT-1/Gravity Storm + ???

« on: March 13, 2016, 07:16:51 PM »

Hi I can recommend a PAF 36th Bridge for the neck. I paired that one with a AT-1 in my 25.5 scale ash/maple guitar.They match nicely and neck Position is fat, but clear, and bright enough.
Must be because both kind of share the same DNA, if you will.

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The Pickup Place / Re: HSS configuration. what works best for you?

« on: July 17, 2014, 06:06:53 PM »

AT-1 de-aired in bridge, Cruiser neck for middle and Pro Track for neck position.

I am using a 4p5t switch with the following combinations
1 - Neck series
2 - Neck split parallel to Bridge split
3 - Neck series parallel to bridge series
4 - Middle series parallel to bridge series
5 - Bridge series

The AT-1 alone gives you a fat rock-to-metal sound both for crunchy to not-too-higainy sounds. Even sounds pretty good clean.
Neck series really IS PAF like, but with subtle single coil flavor on the lower strings.
Position  2 is too thin, was expecting to get a Tele-like middle positon sound, but I guess it's got something to do with magnet polarity or so. Still thinking about just using one coil of the Pro Track to get a classic Single coil neck sound for this position.
Position 3 is really good, clean goes into classic Paula territory, crunchy it gets a little more snappy.
Position 4 is very good adaption of the classic position 4 quack, but louder and not as infinitely jangly. Perfect on semi-clean and crunchy sounds.

Just have come home from band practice and every time I play this guitar (EBMM Silhouette Special), it puts a smile on my face.