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Post subject: Fender neck pickup
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:07 am
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Hi All,

I play a Jackson dinky guitar with two EMG pickups.
I also have an old Fender Stratocaster guitar (squire).
Thing is that my fender has something the Jackson guitar doesn't have and thats a very deep sound when I play it with the neck pickup alone.
I replaced the neck pickup of my Jackson guitar with the fender neck pickup (took a while but eventually it worked) and though I feel the change between the pickups I still don't get the full deep sound it had with the fender guitar. (When I turn the tone knob all the way down the sound is more deep but I loss all the high freq sound)

Why is that so ? Can it even be done ?

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I don't play the Fender guitar since it is very old and some of the frets are dented and cause a squeaky sound.


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Post subject: Re: Fender neck pickup
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:10 am
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SoundCaster wrote:
Hi All,

I play a Jackson dinky guitar with two EMG pickups.
I also have an old Fender Stratocaster guitar (squire).
Thing is that my fender has something the Jackson guitar doesn't have and thats a very deep sound when I play it with the neck pickup alone.
I replaced the neck pickup of my Jackson guitar with the fender neck pickup (took a while but eventually it worked) and though I feel the change between the pickups I still don't get the full deep sound it had with the fender guitar. (When I turn the tone knob all the way down the sound is more deep but I loss all the high freq sound)

Why is that so ? Can it even be done ?

P.S.
I don't play the Fender guitar since it is very old and some of the frets are dented and cause a squeaky sound.


Are the necks and fretboard identical on both guitars?


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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:23 am
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Personally I would have had a fret job done on the Fender if I liked the tone so much.

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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:33 am
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Are the necks and fretboard identical on both guitars?


Well, the Jackson has 24 frets and the fender 21.
But the neck pickup position of both guitars is the same.
Can the position be the matter here ? I tought that the pickup is producing the deep sound.


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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:37 am
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There are other factors involved. The type of wood the body is made of, the density of that wood, the wood the neck is made of, the wood the fret board is made of, pots, caps, etc.

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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:00 am
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Don't forget the electronics. The tone pots may be 500k instead of 250k which may make the pickup thin and trebbly sounding.
Also the hight of the pickup might not be exactly the same as before.


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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:34 pm
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try the volumn crontrol onthe amp


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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:17 pm
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jwierman wrote:
try the volumn crontrol onthe amp


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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:07 am
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if its an old fender, it uses 250k pots.
emg's run through 500k. this will kill any sound going through them if you don't change your pots.


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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:20 pm
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get a fret job done on the Fender


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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:19 pm
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:) Ok heres whats shakein ,,,,The strat neck pickup is perfectly placed
at the exact spot where the harmonics ring.. i think its the bigest reason
the strat has that bell tone .. also if your guitar has a differant scale that
is the distance between the nut & the bridge spaceing has a lot to do with
tone shape.so if ya got the 250 tone pot and the neck scale is the same...
get the pickup location set at the harmonics ..chances are better tone
But its not a stratocaster !!!! so good luck with that..........
..........The Big Bamboo..........Guitar bum............................ :wink:


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