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Post subject: Fat 50's Neck & Mid with?... and a question for Martian
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:23 am
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Okay, so I find myself with two single coil pickups, Fat 50s neck and middle, and an Atomic humbucker that I got for one of my Strats. Now, I'm not sure that combo is a good idea since the humbucker will likely be significantly louder than the Fat 50's...

So, I've also got another Strat that's loaded with a set of single coil Tex Mex pickups which are wound a bit hotter than the Fat 50's. Now I'm thinking that it might be better to use the Fat 50's neck and middle with the Tex Mex bridge instead of with the Atomic humbucker for one Strat and combine the Tex Mex neck and middle with the humbucker for the other Strat.

I'll still have a volume mismatch but maybe not as bad.. Agree, disagree, or have other suggestions?

Also, a question for Martian -- If I go with a 500K volume pot in the HSS setup, and add 470K resistors to the single coils per your suggestion in another thread, does that help at all with the volume mismatch in an HSS setup? Or, is it just a help with the tonal characteristics of the pickups in that combination?


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Post subject: Re: Fat 50's Neck & Mid with?... and a question for Martian
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:50 pm
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jimmyd0704 wrote:
...Also, a question for Martian -- If I go with a 500K volume pot in the HSS setup, and add 470K resistors to the single coils per your suggestion in another thread, does that help at all with the volume mismatch in an HSS setup? Or, is it just a help with the tonal characteristics of the pickups in that combination?


Answering your first question, no. Answering your second question, yes and also with either or both singles selected.
Note that the human ear tends to hear higher frequencies more easily than lower ones so some would argue that a 500K on the single coils will make them louder but the fact of the matter is, this is simply not true.

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