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Post subject: Post American Standard 2000 traumatic stress dissorder!
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:41 pm
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I just signed on here only to understand a bit more about my instrument, and maybe learn a few things. I have two electrics that I am playing with. One is a 2000 American Standard Gold Shoreline and the other is a 1999 PRS McCarty. The main reason I am pulling my hair out is due to the fact that there is a significant volume decrease when I switch from the PRS to the Fender. I have no idea why that is. Has anyone else come across this problem before? I have talked to some guitar gurus around town and they have all suggested switching out parts such as taking the singles out and putting in some DiMarzio's, or even making the whole thing "active". To me, that sounds like a whole new guitar. I am a purist and really don't have the money nor the time, to start ripping it apart, just so I can get where I need to be. Any ideas? Thanks.


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Why don't you just add a resistor or two to the PRS to equal out the volumes?

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Post subject: Re: Post American Standard 2000 traumatic stress dissorder!
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:00 pm
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I just signed on here only to understand a bit more about my instrument, and maybe learn a few things. I have two electrics that I am playing with. One is a 2000 American Standard Gold Shoreline and the other is a 1999 PRS McCarty. The main reason I am pulling my hair out is due to the fact that there is a significant volume decrease when I switch from the PRS to the Fender. I have no idea why that is. Has anyone else come across this problem before? I have talked to some guitar gurus around town and they have all suggested switching out parts such as taking the singles out and putting in some DiMarzio's, or even making the whole thing "active". To me, that sounds like a whole new guitar. I am a purist and really don't have the money nor the time, to start ripping it apart, just so I can get where I need to be. Any ideas? Thanks.


The PRS has two humbucking pickups... they have more output thats why you hear the fender with less output because the fender has single coil pickups... it is absolutely normal that you hear that difference they are different pickups..... :)


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Ok, so the humbucking pickups are obviously "louder" than the single coils, I get that. But, how do I complensate for the switch. I play in a contemporary Christian band at our Church and I switch from time to time. The sound man really doesn't hear what I hear so I have to tell him to turn me up in the monitors when I swap out. But when I switch back, the gains are way too high and it is becoming a pain. There has got to be a solution.


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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:15 am
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You're dealing with an inherent difference between single-coil pickups and humbuckers. The latter are normally stronger - sometimes markedly so. Your soundman is supposed to make that all work out by keeping an eye on you and adjusting accordingly, in both the mains and the monitors. It has to be worked out in the rehearsals. You can take the problem into your own hands by running your guitars into the twin inputs of something like a BOSS LS-2 line selector pedal that is set up as an A/B switch. Then you can set the channel gains to produce equal volume.

If your mixing board setup is done right, you should be able to talk to the soundman between songs. He has the mains down and is listening to the monitor mix, which stays up in an earphone. And he should have his own mic so he can talk to you in the monitor mix. So you can actually discuss things without the audience hearing a thing. You can usually rig it so between songs he just brings down the vocals in the main mix and leaves the instruments up so it doesn't sound like you have left the building. You can even leave your lead singer up so he can work the crowd while you're talking to the sound guy.

But it all needs to be rehearsed.


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Synkronized and Soggycrow have it exactly.

Soggycrow's solution is good, but if you have a simpler set up than he's talking about there's more straightforwards ways where you're not dependant upon the cooperation of others.

One is to simply adjust your amp's master volume when you switch guitars. Or, if you don't like messing with the amp once it is set up, you could insert a clean boost pedal in front of it to give yourself an output hike when you move to the Strat. That will alter your tone a touch, but not badly. And if you get yourself something like the new Greg Fryer/Brian May signature boost pedal you may positively like what it gives you with single coil pickups.

One more crazy, out-there suggestion. Both your guitars have clever little devices known as... volume knobs. Turn your PRS down a tad to match the output of the Strat.

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You could get a midi controlled preamp, set presets for both guitars. My preamps allow me to adjust the master volume and balance all the different patches. Works for me

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