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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: Mo'Joe
« on: December 27, 2023, 07:34:45 PM »
Again, late to the party by what,  17 years? Lol.

Again, all the others before me nailed it.

What can I say that hasn't already been?

It's high end and harmonics are very controllable by pickup height.  I was very lukewarm about it until I lowered it down a bit and set to adjusting the tilt and pole heights.  Set properly, this is one HELL of a versatile hot rodded paf type.  I can play anything with this setup.

It not dactivator tight, but it's not loose either.  It's right at the point where I can control that texture with my hands. 

I wonder how a 250k vol pot would do?  Or a 500k with a 250k tone? 

I really like this and it's combo mate, the paf joe.

They work really well together.  It appears that Satch likes the same things in a pickup as I do.  Cool!

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: PAF Joe
« on: December 27, 2023, 07:21:56 PM »
Okaaaayyyyy, I'm a bit late to the game on this one.

What a freaking neck pickup!

I'll mirror what has been said previously.

1. The attack is somewhat dull.
2. It is a bright pickup
3. It is super sensitive to touch and gain.
4. I've noticed that it has a touch of strat single coil to it.

If you take all of the above points, it works really well for a neck pickup.

The dulled attack offsets and balances the brightness of it. 

It works really well with the mo'joe btw. They are both kinda the same bright, so adjusting eq, tone, gain and guitar volume for one means the other will sound good too.

This is a blues to hard rock pickup without a doubt.
Clean to mid gain, it bright.
With heavy gain, it becomes clear and very smooth/liquidy in that air norton kinda way.

It's not as height sensitive as the mo'joe. That one is interesting.

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The Pickup Place / Man, I love dimarzios!
« on: December 27, 2023, 07:10:46 PM »
Name another manufacturer that makes such a vast variety of pickups.

Duncan has a ton of vintage stuff, but are limited in the mid and high gain areas.

Nobody else comes close.

Dimarzio has 67 different humbuckers!

All my best sounding guitars are loaded with them.

I run a 36th set, a set of breeds, a set of transitions, and a mo'joe/ paf joe combo.

There is no dead weight there at all. 

I just got the last 2 recently and man, are they all killer!

Between harmonic design, lace pickups, and dimarzio, I can always find something that'll work for me, though it's all dimarzio when it comes to humbuckers.

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The 36ths replaced the vpaf/vhpaf set.

I'd go with the 36th neck.

Paf joe is lighter on bass, and slightly hotter.


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The Pickup Place / Re: Bridge HB to tame bright Basswood guitar?
« on: November 11, 2023, 08:08:03 PM »
I was in this same situation with an rg921.  Hardtail too!

I went with a set of breeds.  I've heard them described as a vintage version of the an/tz set.  I can see that.

Fat humbucker tones combined with the bright top end equals balanced tone.

Using the ibanez 5 way hh wiring, the neck is decent in parallel,  and excellent in split.

The inner coils parallel is a really nice stratty sound with the 5kish neck coil and 8.4kish bridge coils.

They would be too warm for a non bright guitar. 

They have this aggression to the mids that make gain pop

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The Pickup Place / Re: The Tone Zone BEST height ? (For once and for all)
« on: September 28, 2022, 01:33:19 PM »
It all depends on your pick attack.
A lighter touch can hold up to a higher height.

It's all about feel....

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The string manufacturer has something to do with this as well.

I have been an elixir user for more than 15 years now.  The only time I break a string is when I detune and retune them too much.

Under normal use and constant tune, i can go 4 to 6 months between changes.

The low strings can get divots 1/4 the thickness of the wound strings and not break.  The unwound ones stay super clean and never break, even under 2 whole tone bends.

D'addarios and ernies would break on me all the time.

Just my 2 cents and experience.

I think its the anti corrosion thing elixir uses

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The Pickup Place / Re: Air Zone vs Super Distortion?
« on: March 07, 2022, 01:10:05 AM »
Sd is 425mv
Tz is 375
Az is 323.

Those numbers mean less than how the eq/character of the pickup does.

You guys gotta remember that the BMT ratings matter for EACH string.

The bass doesn't just affect the lower strings, it gives the high e some body up high.

The highs give the lower strings clarity.

Something like a breed smears its mids all over everything. Lol.  It sounds glorious with gain and horrible for cleans as a result.

Aceman said in another thread, buy a pickup for the eq. 
I'll add that you should pick that eq based on what your guitar's unplugged sound is lacking, or what you want to correct/emphasize from it.

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The Pickup Place / Re: JCustom Bridge Pup Recommendations
« on: March 07, 2022, 12:59:08 AM »
I was gonna make 2 comments:

1. DiMarzio has a lot of mid honk generally.  BMt is DiMarzio.  If this is in a band...let it go when alone.  You'll send great.  But Duncans tend to be more BmT.

2. Do you need a hot bridge?  Try a PAF style.

Get the dirt from the amp.,  Buy the EQ curve in the pickup, not the heat.

You sir, know your stuff.

I have been saying number 2 for years, to myself seemingly

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The Pickup Place / Re: Difference between The Breed and Dominion?
« on: February 14, 2022, 09:58:20 PM »
I ordered a set of breeds last november.

They are still available.

You gotta call and order direct from them.

Same price as any other retailer.

No shipping , no tax to Florida too!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Pickups for my guitar?
« on: December 03, 2021, 06:52:21 PM »
I know this will sound weird, but it works. Seymour Duncan Invader Bridge, and 59 Neck. They mesh pretty well, and you would have heavy tones from the bridge and wonderful cleans from the neck.

Not weird at all to me. Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme used a very similar combination, even though he tuned only to Eb.

Cheers Stephan

Nuno used forever, and still uses an l-500xl bridge and 59 neck.

Unless he is using his tele.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Pickups for my guitar?
« on: November 13, 2021, 12:52:56 AM »
I will second the full shred for any tuning.

What a great pickup set.




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Signal to noise ratio is an electrical thing.

The bridge decking is a mechanical thing.

The only thing a bridge can effect is the ground when you touch the strings.  The bridge touching the wood body has no effect on this.

Also, 50/60hz is not the same as the single coil noise used as the noise floor for s/n ratio.

What's next? 

"The unique way we attach the neck to the body improves the signal to noise ratio......" lol

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I use to love the Paf Pro but find it kinda thin these days. Maybe I'm just getting old. On a mahogany bodied LP type guitar, I absolutely LOVE the Air Norton/Norton combo.

The norton is really nice in LP types.  So is the 36th neck.

I'd go with this combo

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The Pickup Place / Re: Has anyone ordered direct from Dimarzio lately?
« on: October 02, 2021, 05:13:27 PM »
I just got an order from them.

I initiated the order inquiry on Monday via email.  They respond by end of day, once a day.  I called the Tuesday and got a live person, who called me back and got my custom order moving.

I ordered a breed set in red/cream for my rg921, a super switch, and a few pots.

I was quoted a good 2 weeks for them to ship. Add 3 days for delivery from NY to fla.

I got them on the following g Tuesday.  8 days from order inception to my front door.

No shipping or tax either!!

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