Recent content by jafo

Basic HH strat, traditional bridge, something alder-y with something maple-y atop it. UOA5 JB in bridge. I'm thinking of using a split option on both coils via push-pull. The idea is that I'd have both single-coil and humbucker options, at neck and bridge, without getting woofy boomy droopy...

A very workable and easy alternative to A3 is to wire a 0.047 capacitor in series with the hot/output/black lead of the pickup; this forms a high-pass filter that cuts out some of the boom. That might help balance the output if you're using A6 in the bridge. (Me, I just use A3, but that's...

Red+White, Green+Bare, as usual. 16k95 reading from green to black; W/R to green is 8k6, R/W to black is 8k6. Both coils pass the tap test. However, there is no humbucking and the whole thing is weak, severely outpowered by the Jazz N, seemingly double as if in parallel, but the readings rule...

Hello. For the fun of it, I've got a CC dated early 2008 ("SH11 20080413"), with the identifier "ROHS 1ZW55." Sorta. The "1" is truncated and may be an upside-down T, or a down-pointing arrow (except that all the angles are right). Actually, the character in question looks like the weird...

In one of my guitars, the Custom (actually, a CC) in the bridge is greatly overpowered by the Jazz in the neck -- something to the tune of 6+ dB, as determined by flipping the pup selector switch while looking at a VU meter. Even with a (somewhat degaussed) A5 in the bridge, the Jazz in the neck...

Certain questions and answers constantly re-occur here, and might be worth a FAQ or sticky. I'm starting with the easiest and cheapest changes, moving towards more difficult and expensive mods. I'm sure I've missed some, and may well be suffering under delusions of adequacy. Copyright Are you...

Hello, all. Here's a weird one for you. I've got a JazzN in, well, the neck position, and a C5 in the bridge. The neck pup is a little degaussed and is about a half-inch further than the C5 from the strings, yet it overpowers it by a good 6db (measured via a lot of switch toggling). I'd noticed...

I'm not sure why I think this would be a good idea, but I've become disenchanted with the JazzN, the output (but not tone!) of the CC, and want to put my PCB in my main guitar. Any thoughts? TIA

Hello. This one is really bizarre. I put a JazzN in my PRS SE, and it completely overpowered what was in there (a 10k Santana SE pup). I adjusted heights and such, and degaussed the Jazz a bit, but it was still much louder. I then put a CC in the bridge*, but even that is significantly...

Hello. I'm looking for a bridge pup to match what I already have; any thoughts on this combo? I want something kind of big and golden sounding, pretty and sweet, fluid but with a manageable edge. (Aren't we all! lol) The guitar is a flat slab of mahogany, and tends to accentuate the lower mids...

My son spilled some on my guitar, and now the neck pup is maybe half as loud as it was, if even that. Maybe a quarter; it's a lot quieter than my Strat pups. It's uncovered, and I wonder if the coils got damaged, or maybe something got somewhat shorted to ground? At least it now has a clearer...

Any techniques you'd like to share? Cheap ones, preferably! EQ is always an option, but the best is probably to save up the pennies to buy a Jazz neck or bridge, but here's a few cheaper solutions. First, there's ArtieToo's de-mud mod -- send it through a highpass filter. Second, try parallel...

Hello. I have a first run Santana SE that's giving me sound problems, and I'm hoping for some suggestions. It's a nice resonant piece of wood and sounds great unplugged, so I know it has potential. Fwiw, it's nato, not mahogany as such; and being softer, brighter pups are probably in order. The...