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Topic: Excel`s P/U problem Help! |
Jimmy Gibson
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Cornwall, England
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Posted 5 Feb 2005 12:13 pm |
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A very strange thing happened last Tuesday on a gig i was playing steel at,the front P/UP on my Excel started to sound very thin and i had to play the rest of the night on C6,I have checked the connections and all seems fine,but it still sounds terrible on the front P/UP,the C6 is fine so it must be the P/UP.I have a pair of Emmons P/UP`S that i could put on but not sure if they would suit the Excel,so i thought i would try and find out if any one else has had this happen, and what could have caused this problem without any warning. Thanks in advance.
JG.
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Mark Herrick
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Bakersfield, CA
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Posted 5 Feb 2005 12:32 pm
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Maybe it's the selector switch?
Have you tried some contact cleaner?
You can get a cheap digital multimeter at Radio Shack and check the resistance of the pickups to find out if the Emmons pickups are the same as the Excel. If it's close, you could try it and should get close to the same sound. At least it would help you determine if the Excel pickup is bad.
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Jimmy Gibson
From:
Cornwall, England
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Posted 5 Feb 2005 12:51 pm
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Thanks Mark for your reply,and yes i have tried switch cleaner with no luck, so i bypassed the selector switch and wired the front p/up straight onto the jack socket and i am sad to say it is the p/up that has got a fault,so i will have to try the Emmons p/ups and hope they sound ok,im sure they will because they look the same as the Excel p/ups,and the mountings are the same all the holes line up on the bottom p/up mounting plates.
JG.
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2005 5:53 pm
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| Just a possibly useful piece of information - I have an Excel 12 string and I've tried several pickups on it including a BL 712 and 912 but my favorite and what I have on there now is a Jerry Wallace TT wound to 17.5.It sounds more like an Emmons than an Emmons if that makes any sense. I don't know what model and year Excel you have but mine(2001 keyless 25.5" scale "Superb")accepts any regular standard wide mount pickup. -MJ- |
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Paul Arntson
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2005 7:01 pm
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Hi Jimmy,
I'm not a regular here, but I saw the title of your post.
I too have an Excel D10 and the E9 was bad when I got it. The only way to tell for sure is to unsolder one side and check it with an ohmmeter. Don't unsolder it from the switch like I did, just unscrew it and you can get it loose about 3" from the pickup body where there is a splice. I think some of those had the bobbin wound too tight and it just goes one day.
I think the correct reading is maybe 22,000 ohms (altho that sounds way high - might be less) but for sure infinity ohms is an open winding. There is enough capacitive coupling in the winding to get some of the sound out, but it cuts out the lows.
I am sending mine to Jason Lollar to rewind. |
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Mark Herrick
From:
Bakersfield, CA
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Posted 7 Feb 2005 4:06 pm
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Ditto on the TrueTones.
I have a 17.5K in a Mullen and it sounds sweet. |
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Jimmy Gibson
From:
Cornwall, England
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Posted 8 Feb 2005 4:58 am
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Thanks guys for your reply`s,and just to say i decided to give the Emmons P/UP a try on the E9 neck,because i was sure it would sound better than the faulty Excel p/up,and i was amazed at the difference it made to the sound of the E9,so i replaced the C6 neck with the other Emmons p/up i had, and now it sounds even better than it did before.The Emmons p/ups came off of Blondie that belongs to my mate John Davis,and now it sounds better than his...ha ha just kidding John,Thanks for the CD John it`s not bad for a beginner.make a good ash tray.No realy it`s great.
JG.. |
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