I put together a parts caster last year using an alder charvel style body and a maple neck with maple fretboard. It has an original Floyd rose with big brass block. I was after an 80s hot rod style so have a Super Distortion bridge and Paf 36th neck wired to a 500k volume pot with a 3 way toggle and no tone control. The guitar is bright acoustically and when played through multiple amps gets a bit 'ice picky' and piercing using bridge or neck pickups when digging in and bending strings in the higher registers. The rhythm sounds are good and clear but overall the PAF36th seems brighter than I was thinking it should for a neck pickup. Should have strung up the guitar before ordering the pickups....doh.
I probably should have installed a tone control, but was hoping to have a 'back to basics' van halen control layout.
Some of the options I am thinking of, starting with least invasive/expensive:
-Replace the 500k volume pot with a 250k pot.
- Drill a new hole and install a tone control.
- New pickups, maybe alnico ii (custom custom bridge and alnico ii pro neck)
I don't really want to add a tone control as a want a real simple looking aesthetic for the guitar.
Would using a 250k pot make enough of a difference in filtering out some of the ice pick?
Any advice/experience here appreciated.
Ps couldn't figure out how to rotate the image but here's a picture of her.
I probably should have installed a tone control, but was hoping to have a 'back to basics' van halen control layout.
Some of the options I am thinking of, starting with least invasive/expensive:
-Replace the 500k volume pot with a 250k pot.
- Drill a new hole and install a tone control.
- New pickups, maybe alnico ii (custom custom bridge and alnico ii pro neck)
I don't really want to add a tone control as a want a real simple looking aesthetic for the guitar.
Would using a 250k pot make enough of a difference in filtering out some of the ice pick?
Any advice/experience here appreciated.
Ps couldn't figure out how to rotate the image but here's a picture of her.
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