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Post subject: Vintage Noiseless P/U Help
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 3:19 pm
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Hello friends! This is my first post and I'm building a Warmoth Strat and I'm installing my VN p/u and I'm not sure how to decipher which one is my neck and middle.. My bridge has a Yellow/White and the other two are Blk/Wht.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless P/U Help
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 5:26 pm
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They are identical pickups. Use whatever in the middle position and the other back/white in the neck position.

They are humbuckers to theres no magnet polarity difference across the three pickups. No RWRP middle.

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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:32 pm
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Here's a picture of my Deluxe Players Strat before I changed the pots and caps. In my case the Mexican Factory put the yellow one in the bridge position. When I did this I looked everywhere to see if there was a difference, couldn't find anything anywhere. I'm 80% sure there's no difference. I think that's part of the vintage sound, they didn't consider Neck/Bridge/Middle when they made Leo was first making guitars and winding pickups.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless P/U Help
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 7:34 pm
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Thank you so much! What do you think of the "treble bleed mod"..? I've been to to avoid it. Whats the consensus?


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless P/U Help
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 1:13 am
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My opinion is to avoid it at all costs. Particularly with those pickups, that can be thin sounding at times.
I find it zero's the bass response to make it seem like the treble has stayed in the mix. Not really what you want with a Marshall where the high mids are sky high. If anything, I'd be looking at ways to round the bass response out with that pickup set. Something I couldn't do with mine. So I put a Clapton mid boost circuit on em, which really made em usable and prime for Marshall goodness.

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