Recent content by focusbob

Hi folks, I've read the threads on this forum and listened to whatever clips I could find (P-rails II clips being harder to find) and I'm having a hard time deciding between P-rails I and II (i.e., hot). I've seen some reviews calling the P-rails II muddy and excessive in output. I've also...

I'm wondering if anyone has low end sd pickups they'd like to get rid of (e.g., duncan designed or duncan performer). I'm just looking to take them apart and experiment. I'd be happy to pay for shipping and/or some nominal amount of money for them, not much though given their purpose. Thanks!

Hi forum, I have a schechter avenger 7 string (thin mahogany body, bolt on maple neck, rosewood fingerboard) with a duncan custom (bridge) and jazz (neck); I am not happy with its tone. Descriptive words always fall short of their intended meaning, but I feel that the custom is shrill, bright...

Hi forum, I have an SD custom bridge in a mahogany 7-string guitar and I don't like the tone; sounds thin and shrill to my ears. I play metal/prog mostly. I'd like to swap magnets for an alnico 8, however, since it is a 7-string pickup I am modifying, I am not sure whether I can use a standard...

Hi forum, I recently wired a tele (2 HB, seymour duncan bridge, gfs neck) with a 3 way switch, 1 meg ohm volume pot, 500k (which I modified to no load) push/pull switch tone pot. The push pull is wired such that down is parallel for the bridge pickup and up is series; specifically, I modified...

Re: wiring help! parallel/series, push/pull and so on... So, here's a modified diagram from guitarelectronics.com (I'm going to go ahead and consider this fair use : ) ). All I've really done is whited-out the switch connections from the volume pot such that the neck pickup is wired in a...

I have a 2 hb guitar w/an invader in the bridge. I was wondering what the difference in tone would be between a) a 1 mohm vol pot and a 500k tone pot vs b) a 500k vol pot and a 1 mohm tone pot. Feel free to suggest a capacitor value for each scenario (.022; .01?). Thanks!

Hello forum, I just ordered a bunch of pots from stewmac and I'm about to embark on a wiring adventure. The guitar was built from a tele kit and outfitted with a duncan invader in the bridge and a single-coil-sized humbucker (made by gfs) in the neck. 3-way switch, 1 volume, 1 tone. I've been...

Hi forum, Title says it all. I have a mahogany 7-string and want to try a new neck pickup. I like the 59 in my gibby sg standard, but I'm not sure whether the 59 will sound as good paired with the low b string. That is, will the 59 be too muddy/boomy in a mahogany 7-string? If so, would the...

Hi forum, I built a tele from a kit, routed out the bridge cavity for a HB and plopped in an invader, neck has a tele-neck-size HB from guitarfetish (I play metal). I would like to rewire everything and was hoping to incorporate a series/parallel switch (at least for the invader); I'm also...

Hi forum, I'm looking to replace pickups on my Schecter A-7 Avenger 7-string guitar (made of mahogony). I would like them to be passive. Normally, I would just go with a set of Custom bridge, 59 neck, but I don't know how these will work out with the low B string (will it be muddy...

Hi forum, Here's the deal: I'm looking to buy either a Custom or a Custom 5 to replace an invader pup in my gibson sg standard. I like the fatness and punchiness that the invader brought to the table, but don't like the fuzziness/dirtiness (too hot?) and shrillness/ice-pickish highs. I'm...

Hello forum, A long while back I swapped out stock pickups in a gibson sg standard (mid 90s) for an sd invader and 59n. I love the 59n, it's never leaving that guitar. But, I'd like to replace the invader for a different sd bridge pup. The stock bridge pickup (490 or 498) was too thin and weak...