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    freefrog replied to the thread Adjusting my humbuckers height.
    If we start to talk about experience and "must-know" 's, there will be a lot to say... How many realize that multiple pickups ALWAYS...
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    freefrog replied to the thread Adjusting my humbuckers height.
    The best tools for setting pickups height are our ears, IME (and a screwdriver, of course).
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    freefrog reacted to Masta' C's post in the thread Adjusting my humbuckers height with Like Like.
    I don't set pickups to a standard height. It makes sense as a "setup" step if you're a manufacturer striving for consistency in the...
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    freefrog replied to the thread Pearly Gates parallel?.
    Yes, I've tried it. And I think to have already explained here that a Pearly Gates in parallel sounds quite thin, because of the low...
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    freefrog replied to the thread What is the secret of John Mayer’s ‘64 Strat bass pickup?.
    Pre-CBS pickups were rather inconsistent... Not only polarity changed from North to South in 1959 / coils did evolve from hand wound...
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    freefrog replied to the thread Is there a P-90 sized pickup that sounds close to a PAF ?.
    Their narrower aperture gives different harmonics to P90 sized humbuckers. Gibson mini-HB's have also a lower inductance ( roughly 2/3...
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    freefrog reacted to hamerfan's post in the thread T-Tops with Like Like.
    I was shocked everytime i checked a 70ies up to mid 80ies Gibson Les Paul. 300k vol pots, 150k tone pots were standard and even some of...
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    freefrog replied to the thread T-Tops.
    If I obtained muddy, dark and all cocked wah mids from a LP with any kind of passive humbuckers, I'd check the resistance of the pots*...
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    freefrog reacted to alex1fly's post in the thread Buzz after reversing phase? with Like Like.
    Ok yeah, that was it. The cover had a little jumper to the former ground wire... when I swapped the wires, then the cover was part of...
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    freefrog reacted to beaubrummels's post in the thread Buzz after reversing phase? with Like Like.
    In Teles, the neck cover has to be grounded, separate from the signal. You don't want to just reverse hot/ground on the neck without...
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    freefrog replied to the thread Duckbucker power.
    Wiring a pickup in series rather than parallel multiplies its inductance by four. With a Duckbucker, it should give something in the 6H...
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    freefrog replied to the thread Distortion Split vs. Parallel Tones.
    Well, at least you know what is my preference (parallel wiring for hi-gain humbuckers). If ever a pickup in parallel is too bright, it's...
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    freefrog reacted to uOpt's post in the thread T-Tops with Like Like.
    I have a 1970 LP Custom. I can't really judge the pickups since I don't want to disturb the original soldering. But it sounds good and...
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    freefrog replied to the thread Distortion Split vs. Parallel Tones.
    Personally, I tend to split (totally or partially) conventional / moderate output humbuckers and to wire high power ones in parallel...
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    freefrog reacted to Coma's post in the thread W Boggs Firewater with Like Like.
    Update: They dont have the dark label but the white ones. I installed them in my Les Paul sometime this summer. They sound great.
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