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The Pickup Place / Re: pole screws direction dilemma...

« on: July 09, 2018, 05:34:53 PM »

You can always just rotate the pickup around.

Well, thats the problem, its an arched top guitar with a very thin body and open pickup cavities. So there is very little room there. I just didn't dare to bend the cable around in there with such small space.

So anyway, I mounted it with the cable going straight into the cable hole. So the pickup now has the screw poles in bridge direction.

However, the pickup split modes and all is correct. Just like the air Norton was. Split position activates inner coils, just as the guitars wiring diagram states it should be.

If I turn the pickup around so it looks "normal" the splitted coil will be in against the neck.

Actually, I don't mind having screw poles on the inner coil of the neck pickup, as It gives me further chance to tweak the sound in split mode! That I didn't think about until just now.

So I guess, Im happy with this anyway. Don't mind the screw poles looking "the wrong way" 

And, I must say... the air classics (both of them) sounds awesome!!! The Tone Zone and Air Norton was to much for me. The Air Classics feels more balanced and dynamic.

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The Pickup Place / pole screws direction dilemma...

« on: July 08, 2018, 12:57:03 PM »

Hi, i have an Ibanez with 5 way switch: neck, neck parallel, neck & bridge, neck & bridge split, bridge.

The Air Norton i had in the neck position has the screw poles towards the neck, cable down towards the electronics.

Now I have an Air Classic DP190 that I want to use in the neck position. Looking at it, it has the pole screws on the other coil.

Does that matter?

I don't care if the screw poles doesn't face the neck, and I guess the split mode will be on the pole screw side on the Air classic, and thus split mode will be correct (inner coils facing each other)

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The Pickup Place / Re: Tone Zone/Air Norton combo

« on: May 26, 2018, 04:22:48 AM »

If you just want to filter out some of the low end, you could just run a capacitor in line with the neck pickup to filter out some of the low end. Easiest way to test if this solution would work for you is just get an EQ pedal and cut out the low end before the signal hits the amp.

Thank you for replying!

That is good advice, and its something i am currently working with. I have a very easy rig to setup. Basically its just a Boss MS-3 going into a Vox MV50 Clean amp. The Vox is Fender voiced i believe. It has bass and treble knobs, and i found that compared to my telecaster i had to turn up treble and turn down bass with the ibanez.

In the MS-3 i have all sorts of possibilities to shape the sound with its master eq, and inside the effects also.

So its not a big issue, its workable. But i wanted to start by getting the pickup balance right first by using the the vox only, then bring in the MS-3 and all the effects i want and adjust to the guitar.


Another question... I've read something about "half air mod" with Dimarzio pickups. Is that something i could do to the Air Norton?

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The Pickup Place / Tone Zone/Air Norton combo

« on: May 25, 2018, 10:30:52 AM »

Hi. Just got my first humbucker equipped guitar. Its an Ibanez RGAT62
http://www.ibanez.com/products/eg_detail18.php?year=2018&area_id=3&cat_id=1&series_id=10&data_id=357&color=CL02
I bought it because i wanted something completely different from the Telecaster i have.

I love the Ibanez, but the pickups surprised me a bit. I will try to make this short.

I have no problem with Tone Zone (bridge), but the Air Norton feels very hard to dial in, at least to my liking.
I understand what it is meant to do though. I can see its function in lead/solo work.

But for my use, it just seems so loud. I lowered the Air Norton to find a volume balance, because i want the Tone Zone to be my hot pickup for dirt. But the Air Norton quickly looses its definition and clarity in the low end.

They are wired with the ibanez 5 position switch.
Bridge works great.
Both pickups split also sounds great. I use this a lot.
Both humbuckers sounds good but nothing i have use for.
Neck in parallel. Reminds me of the split position, very glassy and clean, but the the lows sounds to soft.
Neck only. I don't think i will use this position a lot. Its to dark and loud.

What I've done is, adjusting the Tone Zone to my liking. I found i liked it best adjusted down a little from the strings than it was stock. And also adjusted polepieces up to get back some clarity.

Did the same to Air Norton but as i said, it need to be quite far down to get balance. Was ok'ish when i adjusted the polepieces up on that to.

My thinking is that, maybe the Air Norton is not for me. I can accept it, as i only will be using Bridge pos, Split pos and neck parrallel. Basically i won't be using the middle pos and neck only pos.

But it bugs me a little....

Any tips on adjusting height or polepieces welcome, if you think I'm doing it wrong.
I think that the way i like to have the Tone Zone, makes it hard to get the Air Norton right (for me)

May it be worth doing some kind of mod to the Air Norton to get the volume down, and be able to bring it up to the strings for more low end clarity. It still got very clear and defined highs though.