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Hi, I just replaced the bridge single coil of my fender custom shop strat with a seymour duncan hotrail. I love the typical fender single coil sound at the neck but I love to get the full humbucker beef out of the bridge. I`m no tech so here are my questions: 1) Well my ears tell me that a...

Hi folks, I have a Launhardt Telecaster which is a very expensive handcrafted copy of a Fender Telecaster. I mostly play rock and love to rock (Nirvana, Gun, Billie Idol, Metallica, Him etc.) with Tele and I don`t like to play country with it at all. I love the single coil sound and the Tele...

Hi, this forum helped me before so I hope for a good advice again. One of my guitars is an Epiphone Tony Iommi SG. I replaced the stock PUs with EMG. They sound powerfull but once I unplug the guitar the natural sound is much more shining and full of life which I don`t discover with the EMGS. I...

Hi, bumping into this forum I learned about magnet swaps. Now I read that different tone and vol pots have similar effects. Totally new to me and very interessting. Here are my questions: My one guit is PRS singlecut SE. Custom in bridge and APII in the neck position. I use it for hardrock and...

Hi folks, this forum already gave me quite a bunch of very useful informations. THX for that!!!!!!! I read a lot about swapping magnets. The SH-5, the custom 5 and the custom custom is suppposed to be the same pup just different magnets. I searched in this forum using "A3" and "A4" as key words...

Hi folks, I tried to figure it out at the SD page but couldn`t really find an answer. I want to replace the Bridge pup of an Epiphone Limited Custom SG. THX to Blueman i figured out what I`m looking for is a Custom 5 pup. The guitar has a maestro tremolo. The STB-14 is supposed to suit a floyed...

Hi guys, i just bought an Epiphone Custom Limited SG with a maestro tremolo. Stock pups were 57 classic plus and two 57 classic. I was looking for an SD pup similar to the gibson classic 57 plus. I tried a SD SH-5. Now I have two questions: 1) The SG seems to have a different spacing so the...

Hi, I just replaced the stock PUs of my brandnew PRS Santane SE (SH-4 bridge SH-1 neck). It gives me that typical Les Paul sound I was looking for like at the 1987 Whitesnake. The SH-1 (neck) sounds great but a little bit too tamed compared to the SH-4. I use this guit for high gain distortion...