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Topic: TT Pickup On MSA |
Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 25 Sep 2003 3:31 pm |
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If anyone still has an older model MSA, resurrect it with a TT pickup. I recently dismantled and refurbished my 1976 U-12 MSA (birdseye/lacquer). It's a totally improved tone. Jerry wound a single coil to 19000 and transposed the tone to, for lack of better words, fat bite? Clean heavy lows with the woofy mids gone and the highs with bite minus the thin tone. Great seperation of notes in chords, but a big round chord at the same time. The pickup is hotter (louder) than the original super sustain pickup and also louder than the humbucker in my U-12 Zum. I guess the Zum will be getting a new TT next.
What goes into a pickup to make it hotter?
Thanks Jerry
Dennis |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 25 Sep 2003 4:04 pm
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Better magnets and more wire! (What else is there?)  |
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Jeff A. Smith
From:
Angola,Ind. U.S.A.
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Posted 25 Sep 2003 6:08 pm
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I agree, Dennis. I have a '76 S-10 Classic, and the stock-wound True Tone is a big improvement (IMO) over both the Supersustain and the E66 I had in it previously.
I put it in a couple of months ago, and I appreciate it more and more as time goes on.
One thing I tried a few days ago that I like so far, is raising the pickup just slightly closer to the strings than the standard width-of-two-quarters distance. |
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