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Post subject: Dimarzio Chopper T Addition
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 7:24 pm
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Today, I got back my Andy Summers Inspired Telecaster. It originally had a Symour Duncan Broadcaster pickup in the bridge, but I never really liked the way it sounded. I have since replaced it with a Dimarzio Chopper T Bridge pickup. This has moved it away from the original concept, but the guitar sounds so much better.

The neck has a Symour Duncan Jazz pickup. I'm not entirely happy with it, either, but it seems to work well with the Chopper T.

The new pickup have more body to it and doesn't quite sound like a Tele pickup, but it is really very nice. The tone pot is a push/pull pot to put the pickup in either series or parallel.

I'm quite happy with this so far. It's like having a new guitar.


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Post subject: Re: Dimarzio Chopper T Addition
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 2:34 pm
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paris wrote:
I'm quite happy with this so far. It's like having a new guitar.

If you are happy with your setup, this may just be needless food for thought, but I would consider the following options if you have second thoughts.

For the neck pickup I would consider the "Gibson '57 Classic (PAF) Humbucker Neck Pickup" (Nickel)

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/humbucke ... ctads-adid^92666429427-device^c-plaid^143220055482-sku^306000000377000@ADL4MF-adType^PLA

This pickup is a little pricey for experimentation purposes, but is the "classic" choice for this style pickup.

For the bridge pickup, I would try a Bill Lawrence noiseless stacked humbucker, which has the traditional Tele bridge pickup look.

http://wildepickups.com/Wilde_Bill_s_NF_Singles.html

The options are the L-290TL, the L-290TL-E, and the L- 298TL.
From what I can gather, the L-290TL-E and the L- 298TL are progressively fatter sounding bridge pickups.
These pickups are modestly priced, and if I was in the market for noiseless pickups, I would probably go with Bill Lawrence from both a price stand point and from his reputation as producing quality pickups.

If you have more questions, contact Becky at Bill Lawrence, is as follows:
Contact:

Bill Lawrence
Attn: Becky Lawrence
840 S Santee St Suite 301
Los Angeles, CA 90014

Tel (951) 371-1494 & Toll-Free (877) 647-2651
becky@billlawrence.com - e-mail


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Post subject: Re: Dimarzio Chopper T Addition
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:41 pm
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As an afterthought, you didn't say "WHY" you didn't like the sound of the original Seymour Duncan Broadcaster bridge pickup, or "WHY" you didn't like the sound of the Seymour Duncan Jazz neck pickup.
I'm guessing that that Broadcaster pickup may have been too bright and the Jazz pickup too dark to be complementary.

If for any reason you are still uncertain about the sound of your Tele, since both pickups are now humbuckers, you could try installing a 500K volume control pot, while leaving the tone control as a 250K pot.
You could then assess whether this adds desired brightness, or whether the tone pot should also be changed to a 500K pot for additional brightness.

You could also do the opposite, but changing the tone pot to 500K and leaving the volume pot to 250k will produce less of a change in brightness of the pickups, than does changing the pots as previously described.


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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 5:15 pm
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MickJagger wrote:
As an afterthought, you didn't say "WHY" you didn't like the sound of the original Seymour Duncan Broadcaster bridge pickup, or "WHY" you didn't like the sound of the Seymour Duncan Jazz neck pickup.
I'm guessing that that Broadcaster pickup may have been too bright and the Jazz pickup too dark to be complementary.

If for any reason you are still uncertain about the sound of your Tele, since both pickups are now humbuckers, you could try installing a 500K volume control pot, while leaving the tone control as a 250K pot.
You could then assess whether this adds desired brightness, or whether the tone pot should also be changed to a 500K pot for additional brightness.

You could also do the opposite, but changing the tone pot to 500K and leaving the volume pot to 250k will produce less of a change in brightness of the pickups, than does changing the pots as previously described.


The bridge pickup lacked the tone of a 60s Telecaster pickup. I've owned several Telecasters and the 60s bridge pickups sound the best to me. It lacked growl and rawness.

The neck pickup was too dark and lacked definition. I'm still not completely satisfied with the neck pickup, but it works well for the middle position, which is what I use it for. I'm generally a single coil guy. In fact, I play Strats most of the time.

The pickups sound kind of "meh" together. I pretty happy right now. It's a good fit so far.

Guitars are ballence of engineering. And each one is different. I just habe to keep working at it till I get it right.


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