Recent content by ztevie

Hi! So I'm having a custom guitar on order. Basically a superstrat with 24 3/4" scale and 24 frets. Maple neck and board, set neck, mahogany or alder body with burl maple top. H-H config... Music style: Instrumental progressive rock/metal. Palm muting rhythm with power chords. Towards Dream...

Hey all! I wonder how difficult it is to swap baseplates between 2 pickups? A Vigier Shawn Lane is coming my way, equipped with Dimarzio Classic humbuckers and a FS1 in the middle. I will give the Classics a fair shot but my guess is I'll like something hotter in the bridge at least. Problem...

I've read every post about this new pickup I could find, but there's not a lot. So I thought I'd try to squeeze every bit of info I can get from those who actually tried it... Guitar is a superstrat with an Alder body, maple neck, 24 frets, 24.75" scale, rosewood board. I use an Axe Fx II...

If I have a Dimarzio H-S-H, 5way switch equipped guitar and would like to replace the bridge humbucker with a Duncan, will it go right in without swapping hot and so forth? Or is it not possible? I'm talking about having hum cancelling and in phase in all positions of course. Looks like this...

Hi! So I have an ESP Eclipse that i will put passives in and ditch the emg's. I like tonal options but this guitar will be a rock machine so I will only use coil split for some versatility. But i would like a blower switch, or a kind of switch to bypass tone and volume controls. I've seen many...

I'm planning a build from Warmoth or USA Custom Guitars. It will be a superstrat with 24.75" scale, 22 or 24 frets. Hardtail bridge. All maple neck, solid body will be mahogany, korina or alder. Pickups routed will be H-x-S or H-S-S Humbucker in bridge for gainy rhytm tones, progressive...

So I bought this used Squire Classic Vibe 50's the other day. Planned to use it as a guitar to pick up on those occasions when I like some bluesy, stratty stuff. However, it plays so nice that it will get lots of playing time. So i decided to upgrade it's weaker parts. New tremblock and new...

Hi! So I will get a new guitar soon. It's a Peavey Vandenberg Custom Quilt Top. I will give the stock pups a chance, but I have yet to find a guitar where I've been satisfied with the stocks... It has a mahogany body with a maple top. Neck is also mahogany with rosewood board. 24 frets, 24,75...

I have only room for three switches/pots/pup selector etc in my newly aquired Peavey Vandenberg... But I like to have plenty of tonal options in a guitar, but don't want to do any wood chopping on this one, so I have been sitting down trying to work out a nice way to achieve that. So with only 3...

I wonder if it's deadly important to ground all inactive wires proparly? Look at this example: Humbucker 1 (split): Black -> HOT White, Red, Green -> GROUND Humbucker 2 (split without connection to hot): Black -> Nowhere White, Red, Green -> GROUND And this: Humbucker 1 (parallel): Black, Red...

Being a novice at wiring, some questions pop up as I'm gettin deeper into the whole thing. I wonder if you can reverse a humbucker as you want really? What I mean is this, look at the below color code for Duncan humbuckers: Black: North start + White: North Finish - Red: South start + Green...

I have asked a similar question before, but I have a diffferent approach this time. OK, so I have 2 humbuckers in a guitar. 2 volumes, 1 volume for each pickup, no tone. I will use two pushpull-pots, one for each volume. I will use a 3-way switch, the DiMarzio EP1111, that's a 4pdt on-on-on with...

On this site there's a wiring diagram: 2 humbuckers, 2 push-pull, a 3-way switch. The push-pulls sets each bucker series/parallel. When using middle position, will both buckers be in series or parallel with each other? Is there a way to, when middle position is chosen, to disregard whatever...

Hi! I have a H-S superstrat, body alder, neck maple with ebony fretboard, shortscale 24 3/4. I need a singlecoil sized, 4-conductor humbucker that I can put in the neck. In humbucker mode I'd like to use it for fat, soaring leads with plenty of sustain, still a bit articulate withn decent...

So I wired my Custom guitar up with the Artie's coil swap mod... I put in a set of Full Shreds, and took the opportunity to wire it up with this mod. I recorded some very short clips in 4 categories: Clean, Dirty, HiGain rhytm, HiGain solo. Every category has a clip from all 9 different...