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Topic: excessive sho bud pickup output |
David Feeny
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2010 11:34 am |
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I've got a sho-bud pro 1 that is about 3 times louder than my sho bud student, it's just wired directly to the output jack. any insight? it overloads just about everything I plug it in to.[img][/img]
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Jason Hull
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Posted 5 Feb 2010 12:33 pm
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Last edited by Jason Hull on 4 May 2012 2:29 am; edited 1 time in total |
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David Feeny
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2010 12:41 pm
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| no, compared it to a friends steel, same. really hot. like I said, it overloads just about everything I plug it into. |
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Jay Jessup
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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2010 3:42 pm
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I am not a Sho-Bud expert but my 64 is wound at 20K and 10.5 on the tap and my Pro-III is 22K and 11K on the tap. So my guitars say that SB tended to wind them pretty hot. 18.5K seems to be where a lot of modern guitars are. My 66 Emmons is barely 14K and I think I remember somebody quoting BE that he never spec'd a guitar at more than 17.5K.
Put an ohmeter on it and see what yours is.
This makes me want to have Jerry Wallace wind me a 17.5 pickup for one of my Buds and see what it sounds like then, has anybody tried that? |
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Marc Jenkins
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 5 Feb 2010 3:55 pm
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| Jay Jessup wrote: |
I am not a Sho-Bud expert but my 64 is wound at 20K and 10.5 on the tap and my Pro-III is 22K and 11K on the tap. So my guitars say that SB tended to wind them pretty hot. 18.5K seems to be where a lot of modern guitars are. My 66 Emmons is barely 14K and I think I remember somebody quoting BE that he never spec'd a guitar at more than 17.5K.
Put an ohmeter on it and see what yours is.
This makes me want to have Jerry Wallace wind me a 17.5 pickup for one of my Buds and see what it sounds like then, has anybody tried that? |
17.5 k is exactly what Jerry winds his pickups to, and recommends to anyone getting a rewind. |
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James Morehead
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Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Feb 2010 3:52 am
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When my pickups get over 18.5, they start to get muddy sounding and 'over-drivey"(is that a word??  )
Around 17,500k and coiltap around 11,500 down to 9,000k seems to bring out the best for my ear. |
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