Recent content by dazco

Does it matter how you insert the bar in a humbucker aside from how it sounds when combined? In other words, i know it can make for issues when combined depending on how it's oriented, but when the HB is used alone does it matter?

I've tried a lot of seymours over the years and never found one that was quite to my liking. The last one i bought was about maybe 5-7 years ago and it was the 59/custom hybrid and i ended up trying different magnets trying to make it usable to me. But i could not bond. FF to today and for...

....to fenders with single coils? I ask because while i love my Jr special and pickuops to death at home, at stage volume the fenders sound far wider and the P90's have so much mid focus they sound smaller or narrower (hard to describe since we all read tone descriptions differently) compared to...

I have a 2011 Gibson P90 and i had removed the magnets ad forgot how they are oriented, so can anyone tell me this....when in placed correctly, would the edges that are facing the screws attract or repel if the screws weren't holding them apart? Thanks.

I have a tele with fender WRHB pickups. I removed the bar magnet like the telenator mod does and replaced the screw polepieces with alnico rods. Of course when you do this you orient one coil's rods north and the other south. However,I'm still not crazy about the tone so before i go and buy a...

Which has the least upper mids?

The situation is that i have a LP Jr special with P90's. I like the tone on 10. But when i turn down i can't get what i want even after trying every imaginable treble bleed circuit (resistor in parallel, trimmer in series trying every degree, cap values from 180pf up to 1000, you name it i tried...

I have both, a mean 90 in the bridge of my santana SE and a dram in the neck. Just installed them a coupe days ago and so far i like them, but i'm not sure if the dream in the neck is doing what I want better or worse than a mean would. I wanted a clear cleaner chimey neck, and the dream seemed...

I have read conflicting reports on A3 vs A5 as to which is brighter. I have a A3 tonerider in my tele bridge and it sounds great solo, but in a mix it gets lost a bit. Not badly, but for a 52 i think it should cut thru a bit better. Thoughts?

I have a neck humbucker thats just too dark. With A5 it's almost bright/clear enough but still no cigar. Will ceramic add further clarity? If not is there anything tat will?

In the thread i linked below someone says they swapped the mag in a gibson P90 bridge pickup and it became beefier. 3 questions 1-gibsons use A5 in thier P90's right? 2-he mentioned using an A8 and a A4 in the bridge....never swapped a p90 mag, do they have 2 mags, one on each side of the...

I love this guitar, but the pickups leave a bit to be desired. The tone is not bad with OD, but when i start backing the volume of to clean up (have an marshall style amp that does this very well) they leave a lot to be desired, especially the neck. For reference, it has a trem and it's a very...

I don't mind paying a good price for a good pickup, but because 90% of them turn out NOT to be what i wanted i no longer am willing to buy anything but fairly cheap stuff. I find they are just as hit or miss as high end stuff. So i really want to stay cheap here. What i'm looking for is a P90...

...bright and clearer than a alnico 5? And what else do they use in strat and teles pickups besides alnico 2 and 5? I have WRHB's that i fitted with A2 and A5 magnets in place of the screw polepieces. A5 in the neck because i thought it would be clearer and brighter. But not quite as much as...

I know about the tonal difference, but can you tell me whether there is a difference in output between A2 vs A5? I'm specifically talking about rod magnets if that matters.