Thomas Bray
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2022 9:11 pm |
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I bought a Seymour Duncan Vintage Rails SVR-1 bridge pickup to put in this Rogue. It's design makes it an odd duck - the way it's designed, it's supposed to be a noisless single coil pickup. That said. If I wire the north/south bobbins in series, it's a more powerful humbucker, one coil driven by strings 1-3, the other, 4-6... I'm going to wire it either to a mini toggle or a Fender SW-1 switch so I have both.
What would you all choose as your values for capa and the volume and tone pots? I could go either route, since I will have sc and hb at times, but this is my first modding of a lap steel, and I am going to be a new player, (I mean new, as in the only playing I've done on ANY guitar, is about 17 years of tuning after putting strings on my builds). At some point, I'm hoping to be good enough to someday play maybe 70% blues/blues rock, 30% country. The tone of lap steels seems different than to a regular guitar to my ears, so I thought it best to ask those who have lived with these puppies.
Also, is it common to put a treble bleed circuit on a lap steel, or do you need the extra fade at lower volumes?
On the New Gear Day (for me), my son dropped off a Peavey Vypyr 30 modeling amp for me to use as long as I want. Saves me some cash, and let's me hit the ground running as soon as I finish the upgrades! |
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D Schubert
From:
Columbia, MO, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2022 11:26 pm
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| I'd start with 250K pots and 0.047 tone cap, what you'd find in a Telecaster or Esquire. This should give you a slightly darker overall sound than 500K or 1Meg pots, probably more pleasing to your ears. |
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