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The Pickup Place / Re: Neck pickup to go with Air Norton in the Bridge of a Les Paul

« on: September 25, 2025, 01:02:24 PM »

Damn, I am late to this. I would have suggested the Air Classic in the neck if you wanted to keep the Air Norton in the bridge

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The Pickup Place / Re: NGD - Ibanez JS1000

« on: September 24, 2025, 05:13:53 PM »

Just to clarify. Is the FRED too bright or too thin for you? If it's too thin but not too bright, you can still try the Mo' Joe or even Norton. The Norton is somewhere between a FRED and a Tone Zone. It's has a beefier tone than the FRED, but still has that upper midrange harmonic you'd expect from the FRED or Mo' Joe

I have a guitar that had a FRED installed in the bridge. I did not quite like how the upper midrange harmonic stood out so much that it gave me the impression that the lower midrange wasn't enough to my taste. Tried out a Mo' Joe and I am happy with the result. A touch more output and low mids, whilst the fundamental qualities of the FRED are still there

However, if you find the FRED too bright sounding instead, then I'd doubt you'd like the FRED or the Norton. Something else, perhaps like an AT-1 or Tone Zone might be more for you

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« on: April 24, 2025, 02:29:26 AM »

Plenty of great choices to be had. I personally own a Tone Zone/HS2/Air Norton combination with a push pull coil split. Works great

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: Humbucker From Hell

« on: June 20, 2020, 11:13:26 PM »

My experience with it over the years is that it is nothing like a single coil and 100% just a low wind humbucker tone.   The duncan full shred neck does a better job at what dimarzio describes, especially with the pole piece mod I posted in the mod forum. 

Wish that wasn't true, because I'm generally a dimarzio guy and I can get them in more colors and cheaper.  Sadly, this pickup just does not cut it as a bright/tight single coilish humbucker, there are better options.

The ultimate, though it only comes covered, is the fralin twangbucker.  Wound to 9k turns in the neck position it has enough power to play nicely with a bridge humbucker, and it is bright and tight in the way the hfh claims, but sadly, is not.  Tracks fast playing like a champ.  Can still sound 'traditional' with a .0022uf tone control rolled back as well.

Would sound single coil like IMO if you dial in a bright tone, and then pick and strum harder

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The Pickup Place / Re: HFH vs Super 2 vs 36th

« on: December 09, 2019, 04:22:28 AM »

Love the 36th anniversary pickup in the neck. The HFH is like a louder strat single coil IMO

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The Pickup Place / Re: DP153 Fred on a mim Fender Stratocaster

« on: June 11, 2019, 07:33:30 AM »

I tried it in a superstrat, but then swapped it out for a Mo' Joe. Much prefer the latter

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The Pickup Place / Re: Steve lukather dimarzio pickups

« on: September 29, 2018, 11:06:35 AM »

Should be the Injector bridge AFAIK

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The Pickup Place / Re: New guitar has a Crunch Lab in the bridge not working for me.

« on: September 17, 2018, 04:30:01 AM »

Another trick is to maybe lower the pickup

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The Pickup Place / Re: New guitar has a Crunch Lab in the bridge not working for me.

« on: September 17, 2018, 04:29:36 AM »

Interesting. I've found the Crunch Lab to have quite a smooth top end. Maybe have the bar coil facing the neck instead?

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The Pickup Place / Re: Anyone uses or has played the Satch Track neck and Mo Joe bridge in one guitar?

« on: January 06, 2018, 08:21:15 AM »

The neck and middle I reckon the Injector bridge might do it

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The Pickup Place / Re: Anyone uses or has played the Satch Track neck and Mo Joe bridge in one guitar?

« on: December 30, 2017, 09:26:20 AM »

IMO, Mo' Joe is too bright. It's all relative anyway. IMO, it may be brighter sounding than other pickups, but it's not like it's unpleasant or anything

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The Pickup Place / Re: CLEAN & CHORDS: Tone Zone or Norton?

« on: November 09, 2017, 04:55:37 AM »

I prefer the Tone Zone myself, but the Norton is pretty good in my book

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The Pickup Place / Re: Bluesbucker in the bridge and a whistle

« on: October 18, 2017, 04:04:12 AM »

Might be valve/tube related. Maybe check your preamp valves and see if any are on their way out?

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The Pickup Place / Re: CLEAN & CHORDS: Tone Zone or Norton?

« on: September 09, 2017, 10:34:17 PM »

Maybe the Steve's Special?

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The Pickup Place / Re: I just lowered the height of my Tone Zone....

« on: May 31, 2017, 04:09:07 AM »

With those screws on either side of the pickup.

I think he knows how to physically alter the pickup height. He probably just wants pointers as to how to set it up measurement wise to get the perfect height and thus the best tone