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Post subject: Re: Would you help me to improve my '91 Strat?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 8:01 am
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Johnny Soniq wrote:
Emopunk wrote:
Do you think it has any meaning to use a p/p pot to split these PUPs, I mean both the hot noiseless and the S4?
The Chromacaster is something completely new to my ear. I'll have to read about it :oops:


No push/pull split needed or advised. Both STK-S4 and Hot Noiseless (can't split this) are about 10K, they are performance output single coil tone Strat pickups, best working as they are. Those you have a premium noiseless single coil sound. When you use them with a Chromocaster, that's when they gets funky mojo.
Personally I would want at least 6.3K on a split, that means a minimum 12.6K pickup, and then you're messing with it's fundamental design to perform harmonically as a stacked pickup. Splitting a pickup is a trick option on most, as it was designed for the tone as a whole un-split. A few good full size Humbuckers would split into a nice single coil tone, one I'm happy with it's split tone is the Dimarzio Tone Zone DP155

That's a good point... anyone know of any other full sized humbuckers they are happy as a great single coil tone with it split in their Strat?


You are driving me back to where I was some days ago:
thorn between Lil '59 + my original single coils vs complete swap for Hot Noiseless.
In the last circumstance, I think i should also switch back the volume pot to a normal 250k one, since now it is a p/p one. I would keep the p/p on the tone to activate the neck pickup. I think my luthier has never heard about the Chromacaster you're talking about :P
In both cases, I think I would be sure to have 0,022 cap in place of the eventual 0,047 I may find inside. Please talk to me in favor or against these two configurations, if you can. Thanks!


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Post subject: Re: Would you help me to improve my '91 Strat?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:58 pm
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Emopunk wrote:
Fender Hot Noiseless would be actually another candidate for my upgrade! I just was cooled down by some mixed opinions I read around.. I now am aware of the STK-S4 kit, thanks!

Any kid and a cheap amp can write a review questioning why one of the most significant guitarists would bother using them, without studying what Jeff Beck recorded with those pickups.

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The Chromacaster is something completely new to my ear. I'll have to read about it. I think my luthier has never heard about the Chromacaster you're talking about

The HRH Queen of England probably hasn't heard of the Chromocaster either. She'll die without it, and that could be another modern Shakespearean tragedy. Then again, if I had owned a Corgi dog, I would have sold it to buy pickups, and a Chromie. :cry:

Ah yes, the brain tearing joys of so many choices. Man, I never dreamed I would own a P90 Tele and play it almost every day, because it doesn't have a lame Modern C neck!!
And the fail safe, risk free choice is....(an eternal drum-roll echoes thru the canyons).....if it looks like a Corgi, don't buy it :P

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Post subject: Re: Would you help me to improve my '91 Strat?
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 10:15 am
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Johnny Soniq wrote:
Emopunk wrote:
Fender Hot Noiseless would be actually another candidate for my upgrade! I just was cooled down by some mixed opinions I read around.. I now am aware of the STK-S4 kit, thanks!

Any kid and a cheap amp can write a review questioning why one of the most significant guitarists would bother using them, without studying what Jeff Beck recorded with those pickups.

Emopunk wrote:
The Chromacaster is something completely new to my ear. I'll have to read about it. I think my luthier has never heard about the Chromacaster you're talking about

The HRH Queen of England probably hasn't heard of the Chromocaster either. She'll die without it, and that could be another modern Shakespearean tragedy. Then again, if I had owned a Corgi dog, I would have sold it to buy pickups, and a Chromie. :cry:

Ah yes, the brain tearing joys of so many choices. Man, I never dreamed I would own a P90 Tele and play it almost every day, because it doesn't have a lame Modern C neck!!
And the fail safe, risk free choice is....(an eternal drum-roll echoes thru the canyons).....if it looks like a Corgi, don't buy it :P


One clear downside is that if I upgrade to complete Hot Noiseless set, it will cost me about twice as much as the SD Little '59..


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