Hey guys, so I recently swapped out the stock pickups in my Ibanez RG450DX with two Duncan Distortion pickups that I took out of my ESP (I'm putting the EMGs back in) and a Hot Rails Strat neck pickup to replace the single coil.
Although my goal of drastically increasing the output of the guitar was achieved, I had no idea that putting 3 high output humbuckers in a guitar would pull hard enough on the strings to noticeably affect sustain, and cause a warbling sound past the 12th fret on the bass strings.
I've been messing with the pickup height, and if I lower the pickups enough to stop the warbling, the output is so low that the guitar sounds about as dead as it did before I swapped the stock pups. If I have one pickup high enough to sound decent, I have to completely bottom out the other two pickups.
I like the tone I'm getting with the pickups set to where they should be, but I'm assuming the problems aren't fixable without changing the pickups again. I don't even have another guitar with a single coil to put the Hot Rails into, and I bought it (and a soldering iron) just for this guitar, so that would suck.
Any suggestions?
Although my goal of drastically increasing the output of the guitar was achieved, I had no idea that putting 3 high output humbuckers in a guitar would pull hard enough on the strings to noticeably affect sustain, and cause a warbling sound past the 12th fret on the bass strings.
I've been messing with the pickup height, and if I lower the pickups enough to stop the warbling, the output is so low that the guitar sounds about as dead as it did before I swapped the stock pups. If I have one pickup high enough to sound decent, I have to completely bottom out the other two pickups.
I like the tone I'm getting with the pickups set to where they should be, but I'm assuming the problems aren't fixable without changing the pickups again. I don't even have another guitar with a single coil to put the Hot Rails into, and I bought it (and a soldering iron) just for this guitar, so that would suck.
Any suggestions?
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