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Post subject: DiMarzio Super Distortion S - Flat sound at B+M Position
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 12:20 pm
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Hi there! I'm new here and I'm from Austria/Europe :)

I've bought a DiMarzio Super Distortion S for my Am. Std. Strat (2012 model) in the bridge position for a thicker and fatter sound. It sounds really awesome for itself but if I combine this pickup with the one in the middle position (Fender Custom Fat '50) I'll get a quite thin and flat sound the low frequencies are pretty much gone (not all but there is not much left). The 3 singlecoils in my guitar were wired in that way so that der is no hum in the position 2 and 4. Can this cause this flat sound problem? What is the problem?
I also tried to turn around the DiMarzio but it didn't help. If this problem does not get solved the second position from my guitar is useless. I hope someone can help me.

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Post subject: Re: DiMarzio Super Distortion S - Flat sound at B+M Position
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 1:39 pm
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Your middle pickup is out of phase with the bridge pickup. Reverse the wires on the middle pickup.
This will cancel the hum cancelling effect in the neck and middle position.

Or you could swap the middle and neck pickups round. The neck (originally, now sitting in the middle position) pick up will be in phase with the humbucker in the bridge position. The middle (originally, now sitting in the neck position) will be reversed to the other pickup so you keep your hum cancelling effect in the neck and middle together position.

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Post subject: Re: DiMarzio Super Distortion S - Flat sound at B+M Position
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 8:24 am
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Simply reverse the red and green leads of the DiMarzio. Nothing else would be required.

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Post subject: Re: DiMarzio Super Distortion S - Flat sound at B+M Position
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:13 pm
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Martian wrote:
Simply reverse the red and green leads of the DiMarzio. Nothing else would be required.



Seemingly so here. Try this.

Sometimes you have to replace the whole set to get the guitar to sound right and hum cancel; like I had to do with my Fender Nashville tele.

I had to replace all the pickups but now it issilent in two and four on the switch and the Alnico II Pro pickups I put in sound fabulous an the Alnico II Pro "Jerry Donohue" signature bridge tele pickups is a little hotter than the regular Alnico II Pro tele set. However, the alnico II pro standard Semour Duncan set is awesome to begin with.

My design required new pickups because the stock Fender pickups were rather bland to say the least and the Nashville set up with the strat pickup in the middle raised the problem of the hum cancelling scheme with tele pickups, so I had a regular RWRP strat alnico II pro pickup put in the middle and then, at no extra cost, Seymour Duncan made me a non - RWRP chrome covered neck tele pickup and the regular alnico II pro "Jerry Donohue" pickup fit right into the bridge and all the positions are great sounding with noise cancelling in two and four on the five way switch.

There is "zero" comparison between the sound of the SD Alnico II Pro pickups in my Nashville Tele when compared to the stock less than remarkable Tex Mex pickups that came in it.

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