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I talked everybody out of changing to EMG. One exception was a guy who played loud old school Hardrock with a white strat into a...

I always liked the Custom5 in a SG. Funny enough because I didn't like it in everything else. It's scooped sound goes well with the SG.

I like this vid about 9 tone woods in a identical strat. Most audible differences on the bridge pickup. I liked Obeche most 🤔

The worst sounding wood I have found is Agathis. Squire loved using it in the early 2000s.

Since I have a gaussmeter I can measure the magnetic strength a certain point of the bar. Some magnets are more even chargeable than...

The PG is already too bright, so split/parallel isn't very useful.

I like a 300k vol pot in the bridge with a brite guitar/pickup, but never in the neck.

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...

I swapped in a A5 and saw an improvement. Less wooley, less mids, more cut. But all in all i am still struggling, but maybe its the...

For the Tele necks i would go for Fender's "Twisted Tele" pickup. It sounds much closer to the strat neck pickup which is very good.

Then… Lets put it this was way. Then the decal is a Tommi Iommi, the pickup seems to be a TB-11 (the magnet should have blue marks)...

I am feeling really old, since it was the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. There was probably Don Preston as sideman for George...

Seymour Duncan had that idea combining two single coils in a humbucker shape decades ago. Its called the SH-3. Its one of the most...

Black with red to hot and white with green and bare to ground.

He have one shaw and 3 different t-top, but all t-top are 2nd Generation from 1976 on. A lot of people say that the first Gen. with...