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News & New Guys / Hey!

« on: October 19, 2016, 11:08:20 AM »

My name is Jeff and have been using Dimarzios since the late 70s....among other things.

I mostly play hard rock on various PRS and Gibson guitars.  I have been doing all kinds of pickup and tone circuit experiments with a Gibson SG-Z that has a humbucker rout in the bridge and a single coil rout in the neck position.  The jury is still out....

I have ASEET and BSEMET degrees from PSU and have been doing music electronics since the late 70s as well.  I remember programming the entire synth track to The Who's "Baba O'Riley" on a Commodore 64, lol.  Started using MIDI backing tracks and guitar switching in 1985.  Was developing my own 4 channel guitar MIDI switcher until I found out that Tom Scholz already beat me to it.

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The Pickup Place / Did FRED Have different DCR specs at one time?

« on: October 19, 2016, 09:18:36 AM »

I bought a NOS FRED pickup awhile back.  This is the DC resistance that I measured:

wht/grn  5.39K
red/blk   4.11K
overall   9.5K

This is quite a bit less than the 10.38K spec on the site.  It works fine and has the tone characteristics that it should have.  Is there an explanation for this?  Was there a design change for Fred at some point?  If so, was the output spec the same?

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The Pickup Place / Satch Track more like Chopper or Pro Track with gain?

« on: April 08, 2016, 11:16:19 AM »

I have been using Choppers for years--great pickup.  I have one in the neck of a mahogany/ebony Gibson SG-Z paired with a Fred in the bridge.

The clean coil-tapped config with these two is giving me a great strat-quack that I am happy with.  My problem is that when full on with gain, the Chopper is giving me a chunky, woody strat sound and I was hoping to get more of a PAF sound. I have also used the Pro Track and like the PAF sound, but never used it coil-tapped.

Would the Satch Track make a significant difference closer to a PAF full on with gain.

OR

Would the Pro Track still give me a good strat-quack when paired with Fred and coil-tapped?