Recent content by alex1fly

Thanks! Yeah those are the pups in the Tele now.

I guess the bigger question is "what will these pickups do when interacting with the ones I've got in there for the notch tones". Just want to make a good decision - pickup plus harness plus pickguard is over $200, and it'd be a bummer to end up with notch tones that are weak or sucky.

I tried so many things over the last 6 years. All the outputs, all the voicings, all the magnets, passive, active, polepieces, high gain amps, low gain amps, modeling, IRs, VSTs, Dimarzios, Duncans, BKPs, EMGs, Fenders, stock pickups, and so on. My takeaway is that low-medium output works best...

what about an antiquity for the middle position?

Another one of these lol. Hoping for some recommendations. I have a Duncan Jerry Donahue in the bridge and an Antiquity in the neck. I want to put in a middle pickup and probably get a prewired harness from Reverb. Goal is to get those Stratty notch tones (particularly neck/middle) but with the...

Hopeful for some technical advice here. Enjoying an Ibanez SCA220c lately, early 2000s MIJ model that goes for cheap. The volume knob rolls off high end so I cracked open the control cavity to see the guts and it looks like its wired basically like this: https://www.dimarzio.com/media/1447...

OK thanks!! Will do probably tonight. I think I goofed the series link between the coils, because the coils are reading well with the multimeter but with normal wiring at the pots/switch I'm only getting one coil, and when I ground red/white it gets fuller but not as full as I'd expect.

Thanks for this!! I’m getting around to this and hit what seems to be a hurdle - custom is 4 conductor but the 59 is 2 conductor. So the 59 screw coil has two black wires coming out of it, vs the customs coil which has black and white. I’ve hooked it up a couple different ways, getting some...

Considering a set of mini-hums. I've seen the conversion rings. But why wouldn't mini-hums fit in regular humbucker rings? The only dimension I see being a problem is the mounting hole width for the mini-hum is 1/8" narrower than the regular hum. Has anybody done this?

My heroes all tinkered with guitars. Seemed like a good thing to do.

Thanks! I know I'm like... why did I take those pickups out again? Lol. Might need to put them back in.

AI just regurgitates stuff it reads on the internet. The internet is already full of bad opinions. So, good not to take it too seriously.

I figured it would be too old-timey for me. I'm not beholden to vintage tones at all. Glad I tried it though. Makes me want to try more Antiquity pups. Hopefully I can stay satisfied with the Donahue in the bridge...

99% of strings are hex core, nickel, roundwound or flatwound. Start there, no need to go outside of that unless there's a specific use case. I preferred rounds until I gigged bass with a real band, selling tickets and booking regional venues and doing all that. I found that flatwounds fill the...

It's that way everywhere, bigger forums, social media, etc. Hard to get anyone to listen to your stuff no matter how much effort you put into it. The most engagement I've ever received from a music clip was when using funky hashtags and wearing a headlamp while playing the guitar with some...