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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 22, 2016, 09:52:52 AM »

OK, Thanks for the help.

Because of the shorter scale of the neck I'm using no-load tone controls that should brighten it up some. If it's too bright I can use the tone knobs. I would rather have it a touch bright than too dark.

This will be interesting when finished, hopefully it will be what I want.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 21, 2016, 04:22:44 PM »

OK AxemanV90. Why is the Satch $5+?

the pups I have selected now;

Bridge = Air Norton S (280)
Middle = Satch Track  (245) <****** Chopper (260) <*****
Neck   = Pro Track     (275)

The chopper is really close to the other 2, is that good or bad?

FYI: I'm buying the pups, pots-3, input jack, 5 way selector, all knobs and wired (NO PICKGUARD) for less than I can buy the parts and solder it myself, from Sigler music 920D.   
http://www.siglermusiconline.com

I'm ordering a custom pickguard (without vol pot hole so I can move it down toward the 5 way switch) from Warmoth when I order the neck for my strat body.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 20, 2016, 06:35:57 PM »

My choices will be:

Bridge = Air Norton S (280)
Middle = Satch Track  (245)
Neck   = Pro Track     (275)

Volume pot 500k and no load tone pots. The reviews I have read said the Pro Track is capable of any rock/blues from '60's-'90's, I should be fine. The Bridges reviews have said is is very good in the bridge position for PAF sounding blues/rock. I'm hoping the middle I can use to add some sparkle but still keep the humbucker tone in 2,3 &4. I'll probably use 1 & 5 most of all but until I get it together...

Thanks again for everyones suggestions.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 20, 2016, 07:47:14 AM »

@AxemanV90.

I'm sticking with you suggestion of the 3 pickup design, no loads and the cap/pot values. This should be interesting when finished. I won't start buying parts (pups, pots, neck, pickguard) until next month. I'll post a pic when done.

Thanks to everyone for your reply's, I know nothing about aftermarket pups you have helped me a lot.

Thanks again 

Tony

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 20, 2016, 07:17:33 AM »

Thanks AxemanV90 for the help, I appreciate it. I had not thought about the no-load pot. Now I have to research yet another pickup, Tone Zone S.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 19, 2016, 08:33:58 PM »

AxeManV90 - I assume with the 3 pickups you suggested I should use 500K pots and .022uF caps?

Tony

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 19, 2016, 08:25:01 PM »

I may look into using a middle pickup, thanks for the info AxemanV90.

Tony

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 19, 2016, 08:22:10 PM »

Found the Super Distortion S and it says; I'm new to DiMarzio and had to look for it.

"Since the Super Distortion® S will usually be installed in the slanted bridge position of a 25½” scale guitar, we’ve adjusted the specs of the original Super Distortion® humbuckers to compensate."

*****I have a Warmoth Gibson conversion neck 24.75" scale, rosewood fretboard.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 19, 2016, 08:13:13 PM »

Thanks for the reply AxemanV90. I'm not using a middle pickup, would the Super Distortion be too much for classic rock/blues?

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 19, 2016, 03:14:00 PM »

My guitar has  24.75" scale and 22 fret rosewood neck. Would the PAF 36th Anniversary bridge be a better choice than the PAF master bridge because of it's slightly higher output? The 36th Anniversary output is 285 vs 278 for the Master. The Satch Track neck is rated at 245. The Pro Track is 275 and the description says it has a PAF sound and is great for blues. If it's ok for blues than it should be in the ballpark for classic/hard rock.

I may go with:

36th Anniversary Bridge
Pro Track in the neck.

I would rather be a little to hot than to thin.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 18, 2016, 07:01:39 AM »

Thanks Stephan.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 17, 2016, 04:03:47 PM »

With the above 2 humbucker pickup combo should I use 500k, 250k or 500k vol and 250k tone? My guitar will be a short scale 24.75", does that make it darker? I want to keep this vintage or close. If I go with 250k is there a way to ad a resistor to make them 500k without replacing all of the pots? I'm planning on using .022uF caps.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 17, 2016, 02:09:16 PM »

Thanks Stephan for the reply. Yea, I'm looking for vintage PAF sounds. The main reason is the other strat I built that sounds like a strat is super comfortable for me to play. So I'm working around comfort spec and adding pickups that fit the bill.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 17, 2016, 08:28:01 AM »

I found a demo on youtube Joe Santorini. He has a 2 pickup guitar with

Full size in the bridge and Satch Track in the neck. His pick for the bridge is way to hot for me so I may go with

PAF Master Bridge
Satch Track Neck

NO middle pickup and just use a 3 way switch. Doing coil splits or anything else will just give me strat sounds that I really don't want or need.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Strat pickups that don't sound single coil

« on: October 17, 2016, 07:20:07 AM »

Well, to be even more different, you could try three mini humbuckers too 

The whole point of this build is not to be different but to have a guitar that will handle the humbucker sounds of the music I cover. I'm not a writer nor will I become a rock star and I'm not really trying to find my own sound, just something to play along with my song library.