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Post subject: Re: Humbucker sounds too thin?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 5:50 pm
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DetroitBlues wrote:
couple things here.. The height of the pickup makes a huge difference. Also, the tone pot of a humbucker should be a 500k, not a Fender Single Coil tone pot of 250k. Also the cap should be .022uf, not .047 of a Strat... Lastly... Most humbuckers have a pole spacing of a Les Paul, not a Stratocaster. Be sure the all of the strings are lined up right... That's why Eddie Van Halen's single humbucker was in at an angle because the strings didn't line up correctly...


The thing is that the tone for the humbucker is working like it's volume. If I turn the tone down all the way and it still sounds shrill and twangy, but it's not really noticeable until I turn on the distortion.
It's got the grease bucket tone circuit, so I don't think it has a .047uf cap. I think it has .022uf and .1uf caps and a 4.7k resistor. And I heard that pole spacing doesn't matter and that is purely aesthetic, and that you dont need a 500k pot.
I'm thinking the pot just died or something, if that's a thing.


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