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Neck: Rock Maple Fingerboard: Rosewood w/ Radius 12” Body: Silverleaf Maple center w/ Poplar wings So the guitar is the Godin Freeway SA It's Godin's bread and butter. Yes, it has synth capability but I'm just interested in which conventional pickups to swap in. It's for my 16-year-old son...

I gave up on my desire to pick up a Fender "Roland Ready" MIM strat (discontinued but still on shelves) to do synth work, as I realized that they are not well regarded. (I was going to swap out the MIM pups for Duncans before realizing that the whole thing was a be****ted effort.) Godin seem...

Hello, I need help picking 3 pickups for a cheap strat. I want at least one high output and also ability to play blues. (It's a Roland Ready, and I will use it mostly to do Synth work through a specialized fourth pickup), but I can't stand the idea of the loser MIM pups in there). It's a...

I have been using a souped-up G-400 (i.e., Epi-brand SG) w/powered EMGs. It's been a little performer, too! For complex reasons not here relevant, it is going to Happy Hunting Ground and since I am now all about vulgar snob appeal, I am looking for something with showcase headstock. Any...

Mercy me, did I ever do a good thing by joining this site! I have now "hot-rodded" my otherwise tired-sounding MIM Strat w/maple neck and fretboard (that was my first electric guitar, ordered on the net probably just in February), with S. Duncans (and locking F./Schaller tuners). Replacing...

As noted in another thread, we are currently playing right into the Yamaha 32channel soundboard which has effects, and from there out to PA, i.e., using no individual guitar amps. Most of you good persons felt I needed either an amp or amp modelling system. In amps, one of you thought a good...

This has moved slowly and I have both pups, ready to "drop" in one or the other. Has anybody even tried Li'l Screamin' Demon? Especially in neck? Is it merely a cleverly-named, not-that-great pickup? I gotta swap in one or the other, and I'd like to know what is so wonderful about Little '59...

Yep, Burstbucker Pros, otherwise equipping only LP Standards typically costing $2000 plus at discounted prices. Yet this spare and unusual Studio goes for only $799.99 on Musician's Friend, some say that these are hard to find but the Friend's got 'em. I am not yet well-schooled in the art of...

We don't understand this stuff at all, and my electrician was able to put in an Alnico in the mid-position, only since both pups are single coil and the wiring was identical. For the neck, I have the Lil '59 from Duncan and I think the many-optioned wiring diagram it comes with is ridiculous...

There is this vintage cherry mahogany Gibson Les Paul w/Burstbuckers you can get for around $800. Almost no finish on the thing, and it looks like you need to clean it with furniture polish! Looks very nice, in its way. I ordered me one, and am awaiting its arrival. Never played a Gibson...

Duncans for soundhole were not that highly rated. I have no access to guitar repair (here in booming Iraq), so amidst my grieving, I ordered the Shadow for the soundhole to circumvent the pin. (Someday in the future I can take the Martin to a specialist to check the pin, I reckon.) Any...

Guys, I ended up as a band leader in a new, very hot local band with lots of players, and I need very basic technical advice. We are running our guitars through pedals into a snake that runs directly into a Yamaha sound board out in the audience, 32 channels with effects, and that goes out to...

Or no? I ordered Lil 59 for Strat in neck position -- will the Mex Strat wiring accommodate that? Or is there some big damn conversion awaiting me or something? Wracked with fear, -- P

Folo and Shuv were very helpful to me on a another thread but this one is simpler: Faithless as you are, you toss out the Mexican Fender pickups from your lame Made-In-Mexico HSS strat. Seeking respectability,:smokin: you humbuck the neck with an SD and replace the bridge humbucker with an...

New at this (and hope this post is okay), so I buy a Mexican Strat, and the sound is just thin. Thank God it was an HSS, the one with the Humbucker, or I'd really be playing some mellow tunes! I see everyone is hot-rodding these under-equipped things, so I wanted to swap out to the Seymour...