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Topic: Framus jack question |
Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Keith Cordell
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San Diego
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Posted 3 Nov 2005 4:34 pm |
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| The problem with this lap steel is that the pickup is in the cover, hovering over the strings; sounds awful and thin, and you can barely pick the strings without contacting the pickup surface and rattling. If you want one let me know, there is one in a local music store that has been there for a year or so. |
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Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2005 4:42 pm
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No thanks, I was just curious how it plugged into an amp. PU over the strings, now that's a new one on me.
Ron |
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Craig Stenseth
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Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2005 6:07 pm
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| It almost looks like a banana plug, meaning no ground to shield the hot wire from hum. |
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Victor Denance
From:
Rennes, France
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Posted 4 Nov 2005 3:41 pm
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I have a Framus 8 stringer almost like this one.
These guitars have 2 holes for the "jack" input and 1 hole for the volume pot.
What most people do is replace the volume pot by a standard jack, and replace the original "jack" by both volume and tone control.
And I find that pickup definitely NOT crappy. It is probably the most simple design ever. Just a square bar magnet surrounded by a coil wrapped into fabric.
But it sounds strong (output is similar to a P90) and quite agressive. Actually the sound of that cheesy Framus reminds me my friend James "Crowbear" Schmidt's old Gibson EH 100 with Charlie Christian pickup.
(btw I removed the metal cover over the pickup, and it opened the sound significantly).
IMO these Framus have a surprising tone for cheapos. |
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Max Laine
From:
Pori, Finland
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Posted 5 Nov 2005 7:16 am
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| Victor, I had a guitar just like the one in the auction above, except the pearloid on the peghead was white. On that guitar the pickup is attached to the cover, so if you remove the cover you remove the pickup. The pickup is possibly glued to the cover. The neck is round, it has a string adapter but I doubt it could be played as a regular guitar. Mine had a serious bow... Maybe they had a different pickup on eight string models? |
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Max Laine
From:
Pori, Finland
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Posted 12 Nov 2005 8:21 pm
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| This Framus Shows the underside of the pickup/cover assembly |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 12 Nov 2005 8:27 pm
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| Can't be the same instrument, Victor. If you remove the cover, you remove the pickup. Though that certainly would "open up the tone", It would be considerable quiter and certainly unlike any P90 in existence. |
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