I was playing my guitar today and everything sounded great, both P-90 pickups on my SG Classic were great. The bridge pickup (which I use the most) was giving off the great tone it always does. I put ...
...inishing it off. I'm going to make the pick guard soon and I want to make sure I've got the two pickups right in the sweetspots.
So, it's a 25&1/2' scale, 22 fret neck. I...
So a friend and I were discussing a project they were working on, a change of pickups . Wanting to keep the original covers with the new pickups. The spacing was different and could not use the ori...
I have a First Act guitar where the bridge pickup suddenly stopped working. Ideas?
gear : schecter damien 6
problem :
whenever I switch to the bridge pickup the volume of my guitar turns awefully low. It becomes so low that even a distorted patch sounds clead :/
please help me o...
How does a guitar with just a bridge pickup compare with a guitar with a neck pickup?
... volume knob on the strat to control the amount of overdrive of my sound. I originally changed the bridge pickup to a JB junior but it was too muddy, and have replaced it with a dimarzio HS2. The HS2 ...
unfortunately, the pickup on my Jackson bridge has broken and I need to get a new one. Does anyone have any experience with S.D Invaders?
...the bridge and a Seymour Duncan vintage Strat in the neck. Any suggestions what I could put in the middle pickup position. Or is it worth it? Thanks in advance....
Before you consider changing your pickups, consider potting them to stop squealing. It's been mentioned before that dampstart (a plastic sealant used to dampproof car ignition) can be used as a q...
Whatever the pickups you fit, the classic Tele sound will remain. The PUs can't alter the harmonic structure of the sound. But they can pickup a better 'fidelity' of sound than the stoc...
Hello Everyone:
some guitar companies are now offering guitars with swapable pickups, this idea isn't new.
Dan Armstrong did it back in the 70's, and a few other companies as well.
...
Hi, I have a Jackson Kelly electric guitar that I just pulled out the old pickups and popped in some EMG 81/85 active pickups and I'm having problems with the wiring. None of the schematics match...
Dear All
Does anyone have any ideas on the benefits of series strat pickup wiring. I'm tempted to fit a pull switch to wire either the neck pickup in series with the bridge pickup, or the mid...
I purchased a 2003 Gibson SG Special new in 2004. The neck pickup has never worked properly; if you crank every thing up all the way, it produces a slight and very distorted tone. The pickup is set a...
...ou have two volume controls and two tone controls, usually the top two (nearest the strings) are the neck pickup controls and the lower two are the bridge pickup - with the volume on the left and the ...
I have a quick question for you - do yo experience the signal problem regardless of the pickup you use, or is it a specific pickup that has the problem?
...en humbuckers only came with two conductor wiring. Techs would 'tap' the coil by opening up the pickup and cutting the (hair-thin) pickup wire where it crossed between the two coils and sold...
Hello...Just wanted to give you an idea that you can tryout..My Company AcmeBarGig makes a Pickup replacer software. Its free and you can download it. It uses Impulse responses of various pickup types...
...dge pick up and the strings. Then check the neck pick up. You might need to adjust the height of the neck pickup in order to match the output volume from the bridge pickup. Hope this helps....
IIRC the Variax demo guy did pinch harmonics. I don't think the Variax models pickup position like the VG system, so the harmonics shouldn't be muted by a pickup being theoretically at a har...
I agree with the above, and would just add that if your pickup lacks highs (i.e., is a high-output unit), there's no way you're going to add them later, whereas a low-output pickup can easil...
It doesn't change the humbucking (non coil-tapped) sound of the pickup at all (or shouldn't do if wired correctly), but the coil-tapped sound is lower output than a normal single coil pickup...
...eplies....
Just in case anyone wasn't aware an equire is a rarish variant of a tele but with one pickup - the switch bring the tone control in and out of the circuit.
I don't want to...
...e But Places Do Surface With Dates
The Body Was Made They Can Be Found In The
Tremolo Pocket
Lead Pickup Pocket
Middle Pickup Pocket
And The Guitars Neck Pocket
Even That Cant Tell You A...
You could try raising the pickup height a bit. Not too much or you can get wolfnotes and the like.
Daniel C.
...me like it's a configuration that you just don't like. Maybe you want on/off
switches for each pickup and a separate volume for each, then you are in control of that blending....
Put the JD in, it's got twang without the icepick tone, great pickup. I have one in my Tele, with a mini HB in the neck pos.
...ing you could possibly call an expressive effect. What causes this?
The answer is that the coil of the pickup is, or has become, microphonic.
Coils degrade over time. Even without mistreatment, ...
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...her hand up for the DOT, It has to be Epi's best value for money guitar!, also they have changed the pickup design so they are closer to Gibson's specs....
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