Recent content by beaubrummels

Click-baity. It always requires a magnet, it's just showing it can be separate from the pickup.

I've used the Liberator, and I've used plain Radio Shack terminal strips that work just fine, but I don't have experience with the Wago. Wago looks like overkill. Do they fit in the control cavity? I would check the dimensions. I normally just do this, only costs pennies.

I think it changed a little over time. My Seymour-wound one is great: it doesn't have the ice-pick spike people complain about and it cleans up with the volume control. My new production one just sounds a little uglier, weird upper-mid thing going on, and never cleans up with the volume.

Custom is ceramic Custom Custom is A2 Custom 5 is A5

First off, single coil bobbins are larger than the bobbins of a humbucker, so is the guitar routed large enough to put two singles in there? Second, FWIW there are humbuckers that are designed to do what you are trying to do, like the Duncan Nokie Edwards pickups, or just tell them what you...

IME JB/A2 has thicker upper mids but little to no treble compared to a CC. Sounds like a generic rock pickup, somewhat vocal. Custom Custom has wider, rounder mids (like an Alnico 2 Pro), not as peaky as the JB/A2, and has more treble than the JB/A2. JB/A2 is loud, e.g. I'd have to roll my...

I based it off this: "I find the pickups to be bright, there is a frequency in the upper midrange/treble area that is unpleasant, and lacking in character."

Ahh. In that case, I would put an A2 mag in bridge, making it a Custom Custom, which would better match the tone profile of the neck and soften the brightness. Cover would be a little troublesome, but the wax can be softened just with the heat of the hand, or a hair dryer (far enough away to...

That's not the best steam punk I've ever seen. (I give up on trying to post pictures, just follow the links.) https://assets.content.technologyadvice.com/634849196468416657_ec94a5eb83.webp https://guitargearfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/steampunk-guitar-2.jpg...

I'm not sure what a Custom 14 is, so not sure what to recommend from there?

IME JB/A2 is like a really loud Whole Lotta Humbucker. Sounds like a refined, produced, sweetened rock and roll pickup. Kind of needs everything on 10. Slash 1.0 bridge is a near neighbor in tone, but missing the heat the JB has. (My experience was in an LP Studio through a typical Marshall...

My sig would just be someone else's sig; like a Scotty Moore ES-295, Keef Richards '59 Bigsby burst, or a Pete Townshend Gibson Deluxe with Dual Sound DiMarzio and full switching, or Pete Townshend Schector Tele, or Pete Townshend-modified Eric Clapton Strat, or a good ole' Jimmy Page Les Paul...

I've wanted the Cali76 but couldn't afford at the time. I got a Keeley Limiter instead, which has ratio, threshold and makeup gain; the three most needed knobs to make any compressor sound natural. Keeley has a Bassist and a GC guitar one; he told me the Bassist just has some circuitry to make...

I just use a used CE-3 and back the depth way off.