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Post subject: help need new pickups!
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 12:40 am
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this is my second post on the forum. ive been playing on a squier affinity strat for the longest time. i got it after my uncle died, i was the only one who played so yea...anyways, its withstood a house fire, shows, being thrown around in a car and tight confined places, closets, misc, anyways, i have always wanted a telecaster but everytime i decide to buy one i always get attracted to a shiny object (a les paul style guitar or something i can play metal on) but i finally got up the smarts to buy one and omg how could i have missed out for so long????? this thing plays great, its the 09 mim stand, sunburst, its so gorgeous, but anyways, i got it before the big price raise since the place i bought it from ordered it before the price raise, but down to the point, i love all styles of music, doesnt even matter what it is. i love buddy guy, eric clapton and johnson, all the classics, hendrix, jimmy paige, all the good guys, but i mainly listen to and play metal, something about chugs and sweeps and breakdowns soothes me, weird right? i kno...im just another metal kid, but i just have a thing for it, maybe ill grow out of it or what, but i do love all types of music and play jazz and country at home when im watching movies or family guy, anyways, whats a good pickup set i can put im my tele that i can chug with but i can coil split so i can get those glassy and twangy tones from my baby. im doin a good bit of mods to it and this is pretty high on my priority list seeing as this guitar has immediately become my main axe, completely blowing way my squier, my ltd ec-400, my ibanez iceman with emgs, and my schecter damien fr, what can i put???? i put this question on the tele forum and got no response...i kinda feel out of place actually, but i really love my fender and i wanna make my baby scream, im puttin a tortiose shell pickguard on, kluson vintage style tuner, push ferrules, not screw on, and last but not least the pickups, please help! btw i was looking at the dimarzio chopper, the fast track, the air norton, the seymour duncan hot rails/cool rails set, the dimarzio super distortion set and it has to fit into single space i dont wanna cut my baby up, thanks for any opinions!

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Post subject: Re: help need new pickups!
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 3:35 pm
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...i love buddy guy, eric clapton and johnson ...hendrix, jimmy paige...but i mainly listen to and play metal......jazz and country...whats a good pickup set i can put im my tele that i can chug with but i can coil split so i can get those glassy and twangy tones from my baby...i was looking at the dimarzio chopper, the fast track, the air norton, the seymour duncan hot rails/cool rails set, the dimarzio super distortion set and it has to fit into single space i dont wanna cut my baby up, thanks for any opinions!


Essentially, you want balls, bells and everything in between out of one guitar; not to much to ask, eh?

Answer me this question and I'll be able to go further: Just in generalities, do you usually play your solos off the neck pickup or the bridge pickup?

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:02 pm
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usually for sweeps and tapping runs i play neck pickup because its perfect for legato styles u kno? but my bridge is for my rhythm mainly for chugging and that sharp attack

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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 5:10 am
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COBHC_inurface wrote:
usually for sweeps and tapping runs i play neck pickup because its perfect for legato styles u kno? but my bridge is for my rhythm mainly for chugging and that sharp attack


I'm sure you're aware that you'll never truly get a full sized humbucker's response out of even the best of single coil housed, sized or whatever you want to call them, humbuckers. And even if you do get the nastiest output, single sized humbuckers, all they'll do is puke midrange and be very brittle when you try to clean them up. So, having said that, if I were you, without hesitation, I'd go with a DiMarzio Area T for the neck and a DiMarzio Chopper for the bridge. Note that both are capable of single coil or parallel coil wiring with a push/pull pot. Or, to mimic the same cleaner tones, you can simply install a treble retention (often mistakenly called, a treble "bleed") system on your volume pot and turn the pot down to about 8. Note that with this treble retention system, the dynamics of the pot is usually a bit erratic though.

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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 5:21 am
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thanks so much for the advice, i think ill actually do that, being as im seventeen and working only thirty hours a week my checks are only like 380 at most every two weeks, so yea...i got a pickguard (tortoise shell 4-ply), a planet waves cliplock strap, some vintage style kluson tuners, push in bushings, not screw on, i like the push in look better, and i guess later on today ill have a set of amazing dimarzio pickups and a new tone pot on order so i can split it and a "bleed" switch on order, how do i go about ordering something like that btw? thanks for the advice and ill be sure and take your advice to heart, now i gotta figure out how to pay for the peavey 3120 so i can get the chug tone i like...the limits of being 17...lol

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Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 5:43 am
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thanks so much for the advice, i think ill actually do that, being as im seventeen and working only thirty hours a week my checks are only like 380 at most every two weeks, so yea...i got a pickguard (tortoise shell 4-ply), a planet waves cliplock strap, some vintage style kluson tuners, push in bushings, not screw on, i like the push in look better, and i guess later on today ill have a set of amazing dimarzio pickups and a new tone pot on order so i can split it and a "bleed" switch on order, how do i go about ordering something like that btw? thanks for the advice and ill be sure and take your advice to heart, now i gotta figure out how to pay for the peavey 3120 so i can get the chug tone i like...the limits of being 17...lol


You're quite welcome.

The "bleed" switch is not a switch at all. Rather, it is (typically for these DiMarzios) a 560pF capacitor wired between the volume pot's "in" terminal and the middle (wiper) terminal. Some like to add a 300K resistor in parallel with the capacitor here too, thus assuring increased treble by 'faking out' the pickups to electronically 'see' a higher resistance pot as the volume is backed off. If you can't find precisely a 300K resistor, a 270K or 330K one will also do. The capacitor and resistor can both be had for a couple of bucks total at Radio Shack or a similar type store.

Best of luck and let us know how your project turns out!

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