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The Pickup Place / How to safely remove cover from Chopper T pickup (it's glued on)?

« on: March 15, 2021, 03:47:16 AM »

I have Chopper T pickup with a black cover. I have a spare cream cover that I want to put on. However, the original black cover is glued on pretty tightly. Does anyone have any experience in safely removing it?

Or is it better to just buy a new cream Chopper T pickup and accept the long lead time?

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The Pickup Place / Re: Area '61 vs VV '54 Pro neck

« on: August 14, 2019, 02:08:59 PM »

I did it! See attachments. I do prefer the look of the original neck pickup, but the new one is not ugly at all. I needed to enlarge the pickup cavity to be able to fit the Area 61. I did that by hand with some sandpaper and small files. For me it's an improvement. I prefer the sound of the Area 61 by itself to the Area T neck. The balance between the two pickups is also much improved. I still need to tweak the pickup heights to find the sweet spots, but I know already know that this was a good decision. I also changed the control plate so the volume knob is further away from the switch, making it easier to operate.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Area '61 vs VV '54 Pro neck

« on: July 23, 2019, 10:48:17 AM »

Thanks guys, I'm going for the '61. I'd probably be happy with either though.

I guess we're living in a good time since we can finetune our sounds with all these different pickups, but sometimes it can be difficult to choose with all these options that are so similar.

Also, I need to mention that I don't dislike the Area T neck. It's a great pickup, but the match with the Hot T bridge could be improved.

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The Pickup Place / Area '61 vs VV '54 Pro neck

« on: July 21, 2019, 06:24:23 PM »

Hi. I'm looking to replace the Area T neck pickup in my Tele with a DiMarzio noiseless Strat pickup. It has the Area Hot T bridge. I read elsewhere on this forum that people were happy with the VV '54 Pro neck in combination with the Area Hot T bridge, but when going over the specs and some other forum topics I suspect that the Area '61 might be an even better match as it's supposedly slightly brighter and less compressed.

What do you guys think would be a better match? Has anyone compared the VV '54 Pro with the Area '61 in the neck position? Thanks!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Have Transitions: like bridge, but need more treble (neck)

« on: November 06, 2018, 01:42:57 PM »

Thanks guys! Bluesbucker it will be! If the combination with the Transition does not work well then I can put the neck pickup in the bridge. I have a feeling that the Transition neck could be a very good bridge pickup.

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The Pickup Place / Have Transitions: like bridge, but need more treble (neck)

« on: November 03, 2018, 06:24:37 AM »

Hi guys,

I bought a Squier HH Jazzmaster Affinity a while ago because I liked the look, feel and playability of the guitar and could not resist at a price below €200. As you might have guessed the electronics are not the best so I switched it out for good stuff and installed a set of Transition pickups that I bought used for a good price. Reviews say they are versatile, so I figured they would be either perfect already or a good starting point to tweak from. Here's my conclusions. Hope you guys who have experience with pickups swapping can help me out. Thanks in advance!

- Transition bridge DP255: I really like this one. It's warm and fat sounding, but not muddy. It is indeed very versatile and dynamic. I think I will keep it. But because we are tweakers at heart: If I could find a pickup that's similar with just a bit more highs than it would be perfect. Norton maybe?

- Transition neck DP254: I don't really like it. The high are rounded off way too much and it has too much of a boost in the bass. Switching from bridge to neck results in a muddy mess. I need a neck pickup that has a lot more highs and less lows/low mid. PAF Pro? 36th neck? Bluesbucker? Air Classic? Which would you pick as the most logical companion to the Tranistion bridge?