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    two quarter pounders in series?

    Re: two quarter pounders in series? Well, it definitely sounds interesting! middle quarter pounder is on its way to fill that last hole. in initial testing, I preferred it tapped. Clean and untapped, it sounds extremely thick, but with the tone knob rolled off halfway. It actually works for...
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    series wiring two Quarter Pound SSL-4s

    ok, I've got two of these, one of them RWRP, mounted together on a humbucker plate. All that's left is to wire it up. White-hot Black-ground So I tie the two black leads together, ground one of the whites, and use the other white as the hot? And the two black leads would go to a mini-switch so...
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    two quarter pounders in series?

    Re: two quarter pounders in series? well I'll be damned. it's been done already!
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    Parallel Axis - Distortion vs Crazy 8?

    I've been alternately using the 2B Distortion and the 3B Blues Saraceno. I prefer the sound of alnico but the Saraceno doesn't quite have enough punch. Objective comparison between the Distortion and the Crazy 8? Thanks!
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    two quarter pounders in series?

    I'm recently very much in love with the Quarter Pounders. I got to thinking...I'd like to make a humbucker out of two of these. 1. would one of the coils need to be RWRP in order to combine them into a humbucker? 2. Anyone try this before? Any guesses on how it might sound? I'm thinking of...
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    what happens if you cut apart an EMG P bass pickup?

    I've got an older (non-solderless) EMG P pickup, that I want to use each half in two Epiphone Mandobirds. The red power wire only goes to one of the pickups though...I'm guessing the preamp is only in that one and not the other? 1) will the pickup still work if I cut the wire to the other half...
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    Parallel Axis stacked humbucker magnets?

    The magnets on the single-coil spaced Parallel Axis humbucker - I always thought they were alnico 5, but are they ceramic?
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