Recent content by Al Heeley

I have a couple of active SD basslines pickups - 9V power, currently passive controls (Jazz bass config) but am swapping out for a parametric pre-amp, which also needs 9V power. Do I use same battery to power both the pickups and the pre-amp or is it best they each have separate 9V PP3 power...

Sorry, nothing to do with SD or pups, I need a little strat wiring help: Any thoughts or better still, sketches on the back of a slightly damp napkin?:nervous:

Does anyone have a decent schematic for the PRS McCarty wiring, not the one from the prs website which is very incomplete, or the one from Guitarelectronics.com, which is a different circuit, or the SD schematic one for 2 hb's, one vol, one push-pull pot, which will only split the bridge pup coil?

I just got this cheap Squier strat body off ebay for a self-mutilation project, it comes with the stock 'squier by fender' pickups. I'm getting a strat replica neck to bolt on, but am wondering if it's worht hanging onto these pups, they look cheap and nasty but I have no chance to hear them...

Quick question: MIM tele, fitted with tbx tone control, std tele pickups. I have a mini toggle switch (on-on-on type) I want to wire in to switch from series to parallel. Can someone advise on the wiring? Is there anything I can do with the switch's 3rd position, or shall i just leave it...

I got some new puppies for my epi dot and rewired according to the sd schematic; http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/2hum_2vol_2tone_3way-w-ssp.html using a 3-way dpdt on-on-on switch. It works, but does it all work? With the back pup selected, there is no difference between parallel...

While ripping out the stock pups from my Epi 335 dot, I thought what a simple but effective idea that they bothered to connect the pups to the rest of the electrics via a little push-fit connector, so I didn't have to remove all the pots and fish them out of the body cavity if I wanted to...

Anyone know roughly what a Marshall 30th anniversary is worth, original blue tolex? Its the 6101 1 X 12 combo plus matching 1 x 12 extension cab, also blue tolex. Runs on 11 valves, 4 el34 power stage. Its a really meaty bit of kit, but just too loud for the type of playing I do these days. Is...

Yes its time to get out the soldering iron and hacksaw again. I'm having trouble sourcing a mini toggle switch in the UK, I need a 3-way DPDT mini toggle with on-on-on configuration and 6 connection lugs on the back, for doing some fancy series/parallel/coil-tap humbucker wiring, as per SD...

Wouldn't it be useful if SD could provide a little siplified graphic eq diagram for each of its pickups to visiually represent a typical sort of tonal response and output? just 5 or 6 vertical bars, that sort of thing? Maybe they already do this somewhere, maybe its been covered in earlier...

Doesn't this just make you want to rush out and buy a Jackson guitar? Nice pic or inappropriate marketing?

Apologies if this subject has been discussed here before. I'm a newbie to the forum, and seek the opinion of the Seymour Duncan sound gurus as to the best replacement pup upgrades for my Epi 335 dot. I'm looking for a versatile array of sounds, from jazzy blues thru paul weller raunch to Santana...