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solved, nevermind, not using the house JCM hello- i have a gig next week where can use a JCM 800 and not have to haul my own stack in there....question is, do I need any switch to use the dirty channel or can I change channel on the front ! ? Thanks

Hello- have any of you who have direct mounted your Tele bridge pickup had any problem with the base and/or edge of the pickup touching the cavity? Even just a bit? I am wondering if any contact could cause possible vibration-microphonic type problems. I ask this now as I was just about to...

I recently bought this Tele control plate and, once opened I see not the familiar Tele round/disc type switch, but instead something that looks like a circuit board. It has 8 rings. :eyecrazy: I have 3 separate diagrams that supposedly represent my exact switch (Squier Classic Vibe Tele) and...

I knew this day would come. Found the dream body for my Tele parts caster but it has the standard SC Tele rout in the bridge. Is there any SC sized humbucker that can satisfy me for the JB sound,,, really....honestly...?? Or is it router time and visit to luthier? In the past I have tried: Lil...

hello- I'm happy with my Rio Grande BBQ in the bridge of my Strat, no tone pot connected. And a 500k volume pot. I love that . But, My 2 singles are still connected to 250k tone pots. I don't know if this is parallel or series but its a stock MIM "Vintage Player's Strat" from 2003 wiring. My...

arrrgh I can't find the control cavity cover for my LesPaul !! Yes thats dumb I know . But, I have to use this thing for a really important rehearsal this afternoon... Am I going to have problems with interference or noise with no cover on there? (It has no shielding tape/paint job in the...

hi I'm thinking of trying my Rio Grande BBQ in my Strat bridge, and want to see if anyone can save me some labor!! Compared to the SD I have in there now, are the Rio Grande hot and ground going to go in the same? That is, the ground on the Rio Grande was this wire mesh stuff soldered to the...

Hello-I have two questions if you can help. 1- how long is TOO long for a pickup, tone pot, and ground connection wire? 2- for any of you with Jensen caps or similar: that rigid wire that connects them to pot lugs,,, its thicker than pickup wires. Do we know what gauge I should look for...

My Custom Custom is a bit uneven in my HSS Strat, with the slug coil about 1/32 or so higher than the screw coil. This was an installation goof on my part, must be something wrong with my crappy homemade HB rout. So is the slug coil influencing my tone in this case.? Or is the screw coil the...

hi- is there a way to disable one coil of a humbucker to make it a single coil? Without push-pull pots or extra switches mounted to the body? So in a permanent but non-destructive, reversible way? Hope that make sense. thanks for your patience (pickup in question is a Fralin unbucker in the...

...I think..... Its just as overdriven as one of my LesPaul humbuckers through my tube amp,. Although, the previous owner has the treble side as high as possible without touching the strings. Amazingly this sounded oK live/loud. But,with all the searching I could not find any notes on magnet...

I did this with my CustomCustom bridge in my Strat, and now have done it with my Les Paul, Rio Grande BBQ in the bridge. At the same time I had change the volume pot to an Audio taper. Trouble is, is all I had on-hand was a 300k so I just put the thing in. So now I'm wondering,, since the...

hi ---on the SD sound samples, the Vintage Stack STK-T3B bridge Dirty sounds livelier than the Hot Stack, but for those of you using them live/loud, does this Vintage stack liveliness (on recording) actually come out as pain and agony at big volume?. And the smoother Hot Stack comes out...

As I pace around the living room unplugged, practicing and singing as I do, I find my Les Paul (1993 Standard) has such a great tone acoustically. I'm looking for a Bridge pickup with the most faithful representation I can get of my unplugged tone. Not acoustic, not clean, I don't mean that...

hi- I was removing the wax from this old Epi pickup and sliced a piece of ribbon off by mistake, and what looks like one or two layers of windings... is this pickup still viable? Should I press the ribbon and broken windings back in? or remove the slice, and tape over? (or toss the pickup in the...