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I am a long time lurker (I have practically learnt everything I know about pickups and guitar wiring around here) but first time poster. I have found myself in a bit of a head-scratcher and I'd appreciate your insight.
About a year and a half ago I built myself a partcaster, I used some sort of no name basswood body (weight was my main concern, long live the basswood!), a USA neck off of eBay, a custom pickguard as I really hate the volume control placement on a strat plus I have no need of dual tone pots and an HSS configuration with a Dimarzio FRED in the bridge and a couple of no name ceramic singles in the neck and middle positions, nothing special but 99% of the time I am in the bridge position anyway.
Today I measured through the output jack the DC resistance of the pickups (it's not particularly accurate but I needed a ballpark, nothing crazy) and I noticed that positions 2 and 4 had a significantly lower DC resistance than any other position, something I can also hear through the amp (if we accept the oversimplification that DC resistance equals output), even though I have the middle pickup flush with the pickguard (don't shoot, I come from the land of Les Paul and acoustics, can't stop hitting it with the pick) it's still louder than the in between positions. My singles are in the 4.2-4.4Kohm range, the FRED is somewhere between 9.9 and 10.1Kohm, positions 2 and 4 yield about 2.2-2.6Kohm (the mid/brdg is a tad hotter than the mid/neck).
While that is a very useful accident in the sense that the tone of the middle/bridge combination is pretty similar to a strat bridge pickup but slightly bassier I would like to know if this is normal or if I wired something wrong (which, let's be honest, is probably the case, it was my first guitar wiring from scratch).
Thanks in advance for any insight!
Cheers,
Achilleas
P.S.: I used a couple of single coils I already had for expediency's sake however I am looking for a proper pickup for the neck position. I love the tone of the quarter pounder and the Dimarzio SDS-1, single coil but thick and creamy, any experience on how they might sound with the FRED in terms of tone as well as output?
I am a long time lurker (I have practically learnt everything I know about pickups and guitar wiring around here) but first time poster. I have found myself in a bit of a head-scratcher and I'd appreciate your insight.
About a year and a half ago I built myself a partcaster, I used some sort of no name basswood body (weight was my main concern, long live the basswood!), a USA neck off of eBay, a custom pickguard as I really hate the volume control placement on a strat plus I have no need of dual tone pots and an HSS configuration with a Dimarzio FRED in the bridge and a couple of no name ceramic singles in the neck and middle positions, nothing special but 99% of the time I am in the bridge position anyway.
Today I measured through the output jack the DC resistance of the pickups (it's not particularly accurate but I needed a ballpark, nothing crazy) and I noticed that positions 2 and 4 had a significantly lower DC resistance than any other position, something I can also hear through the amp (if we accept the oversimplification that DC resistance equals output), even though I have the middle pickup flush with the pickguard (don't shoot, I come from the land of Les Paul and acoustics, can't stop hitting it with the pick) it's still louder than the in between positions. My singles are in the 4.2-4.4Kohm range, the FRED is somewhere between 9.9 and 10.1Kohm, positions 2 and 4 yield about 2.2-2.6Kohm (the mid/brdg is a tad hotter than the mid/neck).
While that is a very useful accident in the sense that the tone of the middle/bridge combination is pretty similar to a strat bridge pickup but slightly bassier I would like to know if this is normal or if I wired something wrong (which, let's be honest, is probably the case, it was my first guitar wiring from scratch).
Thanks in advance for any insight!
Cheers,
Achilleas
P.S.: I used a couple of single coils I already had for expediency's sake however I am looking for a proper pickup for the neck position. I love the tone of the quarter pounder and the Dimarzio SDS-1, single coil but thick and creamy, any experience on how they might sound with the FRED in terms of tone as well as output?
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