Recent content by Baribus

Thought id update whats going on. Tried the old guitar and that sounded even worse so i can only think theres something not right with my equipment. Cant see the guitar cable being damaged just sitting there and the headphones havent given a single crackle or hint of a problem so that leaves the...

Meant top 2 pickups not frets... its late an night.

Funnily enough i had been considering earlier today that maybe the SSS pickguard would fit in the HSS guitar i now have cause whatever it is in that guitar i prefer the sound of it by some distance. It looked from pictures like the screws are in exactly the same place as are the top 2 frets...

Thanks for your replies. uOpt The capacitor is a 22 and there only seems to be one for all the pots. I dont have anything to test it with. Thought evem for an amateur it would be a relatively simple swap, naively. Then came the need for a new pickguard cause of the 2 vs 3 screw holes, the 6 tiny...

Having finally got the JB humbucker working in my HSS performer strat it sounds just as muffled as the Shawbucker did. Id assumed it was the Shawbucker that was responsible for this dark sound. It was particularly bad for palm muted notes and harmonics, but the JB has the same problem. Even with...

I cant seem to find an answer to this anywhere on the internet. First try i missed that you had to reverse the green and black wires when mixing with fender pickups cause of the reverse polarity on SD pickups. This failure took hours as the lugs are so small on the push pull switch i had to have...