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The Pickup Place / Neck Humbucker trick for removing mud/boom

« on: February 07, 2018, 04:55:53 AM »

Making sure volume and then me are 500k....

I got a bright sound ( 12 hex poles) by lowering the pickup then lower all 12 poles flush to the bobbin, then raise poles in a wide range humbucker pattern:

North coil raise 3 bass hex poles  1.5 full turns
South coil raise 3 treble screws 1.5 turns - that was very successful.

What I found more successful was this :

Another method was to lower the pickup to 3mm below the string fretted at top fret.

Then for each string raise each pole so it sits 2mm away from the strings and therefore follows the radius.  You can do this on the north coil, the south coil, both coils or 3 bass on north, 3 trebles on south.

Another successful method was to make all the poles flush then raise them all 1/2 a turn, then raise the basses another full turn and set the pickup height 3 mm below the strings on the treble side and 4mm on the bass side

Then tweak from there...






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The Pickup Place / Re: Super distortion - super D or super 2 for the neck

« on: September 04, 2017, 09:50:26 AM »

Ok, I bit the bullet and prepared push pulls as follows. Hope they sound good split and coils in parallel!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Super distortion - super D or super 2 for the neck

« on: September 03, 2017, 05:06:04 PM »

Thanks for the inputs. In the end I went for the classic Super distortion bridge, PAF pro neck
Is it with the trouble of wiring for inner / outer coil splits ( which gives the option of selecting both and the coils are in parallel) - are the coil split and parallel tones good to make it worth the extra effort?


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The Pickup Place / Super distortion - super D or super 2 for the neck

« on: August 26, 2017, 05:14:46 PM »

I have an Epiphone Les Paul standard - I think the pickups are ok but a little generic sounding. I can get a good tone out of them but maybe a 70s classic rock tone.
Was thinking super distortions but maybe super 2 in the neck - maybe a super D would be a bit dark. I know that's a classic 79s combo - anyone tried both in an LP and can advise if the super 2 would be too bright in the neck or if this is the killer combo ?


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The Pickup Place / Super distortion - super D or super 2 for the neck

« on: August 26, 2017, 04:25:55 PM »

I have an Epiphone Les Paul standard - I think the pickups are ok but a little generic sounding. I can get a good tone out of them but maybe a 70s classic rock tone.
Was thinking super distortions but maybe super 2 in the neck - maybe a super D would be a bit dark. I know that's a classic 79s combo - anyone tried both in an LP and can advise if the super 2 would be too bright in the neck or if this is the killer combo ?


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The Pickup Place / Super distortion - super D or super 2 for the neck

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:55:31 PM »

I have an Epiphone Les Paul standard - I think the pickups are ok but a little generic sounding. I can get a good tone out of them but maybe a 70s classic rock tone.
Was thinking super distortions but maybe super 2 in the neck - maybe a super D would be a bit dark. I know that's a classic 70s combo - anyone tried both in an LP and can advise if the super 2 would be too bright in the neck or if this is the killer combo ?


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The Pickup Place / Super distortion - super D or super 2 for the neck

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:54:59 PM »

I have an Epiphone Les Paul standard - I think the pickups are ok but a little generic sounding. I can get a good tone out of them but maybe a 70s classic rock tone.
Was thinking super distortions but maybe super 2 in the neck - maybe a super D would be a bit dark. I know that's a classic 79s combo - anyone tried both in an LP and can advise if the super 2 would be too bright in the neck or if this is the killer combo ?


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The Pickup Place / Re: F spacing?

« on: December 22, 2016, 10:00:13 AM »

Thanks all.
I have a partscaster with 52mm spaced strings at the bridge and originally had a 50mm spaced oil city brass knuckle there and now have a 52mm spaced one, and I hear no difference.
Similarly with the DMZ, both E strings coming through fine, even though the strings are spaced 52 over the bridge, it's more of an OCD thing for me I think.



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The Pickup Place / F spacing?

« on: December 21, 2016, 04:28:48 AM »

Thanks. I am hoping to fit SD trembucker. I did not realise they are bigger, I thought they same size but bobbins have holes spaced differently. As long as the base plate is the same size it should be ok.

My OCD never liked the bridge pickup string alignment ;-)


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The Pickup Place / Re: Murky sounding but great playing basswood squire

« on: December 20, 2016, 08:42:37 PM »

I got a Squier standard strat. I put fender tex mex pickups in and they round great with 500k pots. Bright with plenty of upper mids and tight basses for single coils they sound pretty full. They are slightly hotter than vintage wind. I like them a lot.
Mind you I like the Squier standard bridge pickup as a middle pickup in my HSH partscaster with oil city pickups. I chose the bridge as for polarity reasons and it being higher output than the neck, it's sounds pretty good.


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The Pickup Place / F spacing?

« on: December 20, 2016, 08:37:39 PM »

I have a 1970s high end Japanese guitar with OEM DiMarzio pickups. I am guessing back then humbuckers were all 48 to 49mm and single coils 50 to 52mm.

My guitar has a hard tail string through back like a hard tail fixed bridge strat. Strings over the bridge pickup are about 52.5mm yet it's got 48mm spaced bridge humbucker.

Having swapped 50mm for 52mm out on a strat and could hear no difference I don't think there is any discernible difference unless you are a guitar playing bat.

But I think I might swap these pickups out, question is do get f spaced bridge or not? It seems to bump the price up buying individual pickups as opposed to a matched set for most brands (especially Seymour Duncan's, I can save up to £50 not going for a trembucker with the matched set offers)

What do guys here think?



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The Pickup Place / F spacing?

« on: December 20, 2016, 08:37:07 PM »

I have a 1970s high end Japanese guitar with OEM DiMarzio pickups. I am guessing back then humbuckers were all 48 to 49mm and single coils 50 to 52mm.

My guitar has a hard tail string through back like a hard tail fixed bridge strat. Strings over the bridge pickup are about 52.5mm yet it's got 48mm spaced bridge humbucker.

Having swapped 50mm for 52mm out on a strat and could hear no difference I don't think there is any discernible difference unless you are a guitar playing bat.

But I think I might swap these pickups out, question is do get f spaced bridge or not? It seems to bump the price up buying individual pickups as opposed to a matched set for most brands (especially Seymour Duncan's, I can save up to £50 not going for a trembucker with the matched set offers)

What do guys here think?



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The Pickup Place / Mag swapping in 1st gen superdistortions - is it sacrilege?

« on: December 02, 2016, 08:17:47 PM »

Great posts!

You're not the first person I've known to swap the magnets out on the Super Distortions but I'm glad to hear your results were really positive!

I thought they were super Distortions, turns out they are very early Super 2s, look exactly like Superdistortions but designed for the neck. Super bright sound,not a lot of bass. Explains the shrill, they measure 8k as per Super 2 specs - they are single core, outer braid is ground. I still managed to coil split them to.

But it's a stop gap until funds or Santa allows Pearly gates


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The Pickup Place / Re: El Maya EM 1300 with Superdistortions?

« on: November 25, 2016, 11:34:20 AM »

My mistake - after some strange DCR readings and before and after checks, replaced the battery in my multi-meter and these are not Superdistortions but the DiMarzio neck partner, super 2 - must be very early. They look exactly like super distortions but they read 7.9k. I would have though super distortion fir the bridge, but no, they are both early super 2s same single core and braid is ground as super D, same brass bass plate and 12 adjustable Hex poles. I guess that explains why with that huge ceramic magnet why these were so harsh and ice pick shrill - more so than any strat bridge pickup.
Much nicer with A2.


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The Pickup Place / Re: PETITION TO DIMARZIO: PLEASE BRING BACK THE VIRTUAL PAF SET!

« on: November 10, 2016, 10:48:28 AM »

And what's wrong with Alnico 2? How can you expect to compete with Seymour without ALNICO 2.
By the way ALNICO 2 in Superdistortions makes a nice PAF like sound...


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