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Topic: surface mount pickup |
Ethan Shaw
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Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2008 6:35 pm |
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| I have a Fender 2000 (with the long, skinny single coil pickups), and am thinking about putting an additional, humbucking pickup on one of the necks. I love the original sound, but would like the option of a beefier tone (especially with an overdriven amp). I guess kind of like those tele's that had a regular tele pickup and a humbucker. Any pickup suggestions?... What would be the best is to find a surface-mount pickup (like some old DeArmonds), so that I wouldn't have to do any routing and/or permanent damage, but the tone is more important than anything else. (Fender forum guys, I'd post this there, but the [/i]spam thing...) |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 15 Jul 2008 6:47 pm
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Clearance under the strings on a Fender is quite limited, and very few pickups would work without modding the guitar. The old DeArmonds would, but they're tough to find, nowadays, and they're still single-coil.
I'd try a stomp-box graphic EQ, first, as I think it will give you the variation you're looking for.  |
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Twayn Williams
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Portland, OR
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Posted 16 Jul 2008 10:07 am
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
| I'd try a stomp-box graphic EQ, first, as I think it will give you the variation you're looking for. |
Seymour Duncan also makes a box called a Pickup Booster which is designed to give a minimal 6db boost and has a switch to shift the resonance frequency of single coils to either vintage or modern humbucker peaks.
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Chris Lucker
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Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 16 Jul 2008 9:41 pm
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Talk with a pickup maker and explore a different coil shape and different wire ga. to fill the same footptint.
I have Emmons Number two and its single coils have magnets a quarter inch taller than later Emmons single coils. Bigsby used fatter wire. Schnelling pickups used skinnier wire.
There is no rule that says you need to use 42 ga wire. |
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