Hello,
coming from https://forum.seymourduncan.com/show...e-bridge/page2
here is the story, boughter this lovely Kramer 210 back in 1990. It had the livewires set , with livewire metal (LW-HMET) on the bridge. It was huge. Noob as I was, played with an ESP Dokken sign before that at the shop, but the Kramer with the duncans blew my mind! At the time all I thought about was power! So I got it. By the time I wanted to use some cleans on the bridge as well. Not an option with the LW metal. So I did the mod by adding an extra voltage divider, basically an extra vol pot. It was bearable but still sucked, was like playing with wah wah. Good for solos, not so much for riffs. Also the metal was not tight at all. So sucked on thrash as well. After each power muted chord there was an ommmmm sound from the guitar. The neck pup didn't have this problem. This was very tight. So at some point I bought from an ebay seller the original non-metal livewire. Which didn't came after waiting for 6 months or so. So I got an EMG 85/81 set I bought off from ebay, and the result :
2020-01-07_10-38-27 by panixgr, on Flickr
It has been a nice set, 85 on the bridge, 81 on the neck. Nice tones, but nothing distinctive, and too much noise (50Hz hum). At nights it became a PITA. Anyway. In the meantime , as like in miracles, the SD came!! Back in 2017.... ((it had blue band/stripe and not yellow, so I guess it might have been the neck, multimeter readings would be the same, pls read on)). I had plans for the restoration back to SD but it didn't happen till few mins ago. Yesternight (or early morning today to be more accurate) upon finishing with the final solderings I was unfortunate to try a 9s set of chinese strings I had acquired from aliexpress. Although in general, lately accoding to my own experiences chinese products are generally acceptable to good, this time those strings sucked. I mean, the guitar had LOW output. G open sucked. Harmonics sucked. I did some tests volume-wise against an other EMG axe I have, and EMGs won... Argghh not exactly the result I was after. So today I thought about trying with a new set of dadarrios and new batteries (batteries was not the culprit, I replaced those early on as you might have guessed). I thought it could not be possible for those pups to sound so dead. I mean I never remembered the LW neck pup which was stock on the guitar to sound so dead! So I fitted the Daddarios, re-adjusted bridge free floating position, plugged in aaaand voila!!! The guitar had plenty of output!! I tested by ear on clean channel aganst the EMGs, and they sound like they have equal output, I can say that marginally the LW cut better, due to the treble. Same or better easiness with harmonics. What can I say!!! Those sound GREAT!!! Those ones I am talking about are the SD LW originals - not the II version! So, now I have as spares the 85/81 set and the old SD LW metal. More testing tomorrow! Ahhh I forgot to say, they are 100% noiseless in contrast to the EMG 85/81.
The new state of the Kramer:
2020-01-07_10-22-57 by panixgr, on Flickr
2020-01-07_10-23-08 by panixgr, on Flickr
2020-01-07_10-23-21 by panixgr, on Flickr
coming from https://forum.seymourduncan.com/show...e-bridge/page2
here is the story, boughter this lovely Kramer 210 back in 1990. It had the livewires set , with livewire metal (LW-HMET) on the bridge. It was huge. Noob as I was, played with an ESP Dokken sign before that at the shop, but the Kramer with the duncans blew my mind! At the time all I thought about was power! So I got it. By the time I wanted to use some cleans on the bridge as well. Not an option with the LW metal. So I did the mod by adding an extra voltage divider, basically an extra vol pot. It was bearable but still sucked, was like playing with wah wah. Good for solos, not so much for riffs. Also the metal was not tight at all. So sucked on thrash as well. After each power muted chord there was an ommmmm sound from the guitar. The neck pup didn't have this problem. This was very tight. So at some point I bought from an ebay seller the original non-metal livewire. Which didn't came after waiting for 6 months or so. So I got an EMG 85/81 set I bought off from ebay, and the result :
2020-01-07_10-38-27 by panixgr, on Flickr
It has been a nice set, 85 on the bridge, 81 on the neck. Nice tones, but nothing distinctive, and too much noise (50Hz hum). At nights it became a PITA. Anyway. In the meantime , as like in miracles, the SD came!! Back in 2017.... ((it had blue band/stripe and not yellow, so I guess it might have been the neck, multimeter readings would be the same, pls read on)). I had plans for the restoration back to SD but it didn't happen till few mins ago. Yesternight (or early morning today to be more accurate) upon finishing with the final solderings I was unfortunate to try a 9s set of chinese strings I had acquired from aliexpress. Although in general, lately accoding to my own experiences chinese products are generally acceptable to good, this time those strings sucked. I mean, the guitar had LOW output. G open sucked. Harmonics sucked. I did some tests volume-wise against an other EMG axe I have, and EMGs won... Argghh not exactly the result I was after. So today I thought about trying with a new set of dadarrios and new batteries (batteries was not the culprit, I replaced those early on as you might have guessed). I thought it could not be possible for those pups to sound so dead. I mean I never remembered the LW neck pup which was stock on the guitar to sound so dead! So I fitted the Daddarios, re-adjusted bridge free floating position, plugged in aaaand voila!!! The guitar had plenty of output!! I tested by ear on clean channel aganst the EMGs, and they sound like they have equal output, I can say that marginally the LW cut better, due to the treble. Same or better easiness with harmonics. What can I say!!! Those sound GREAT!!! Those ones I am talking about are the SD LW originals - not the II version! So, now I have as spares the 85/81 set and the old SD LW metal. More testing tomorrow! Ahhh I forgot to say, they are 100% noiseless in contrast to the EMG 85/81.
The new state of the Kramer:
2020-01-07_10-22-57 by panixgr, on Flickr
2020-01-07_10-23-08 by panixgr, on Flickr
2020-01-07_10-23-21 by panixgr, on Flickr
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