I'm just putting a parts guitar together with things I have laying around, LP style. I'm putting in a pair of 2-wire Seth Lovers that I took out of something else, and I'm just wondering if there are any useful mods that can be done without tearing the pups apart? Thanks!
2-wire Mods?
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hamerfan
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https://www.wildepickups.com/collec...able-and-plugs-and-t-shirts/products/q-filter
order the 3H model for humbuckers
Explanation:
https://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/8288/bill-lawrence-filter-analysis
I use it with Duncan Distortion with great success.
order the 3H model for humbuckers
Explanation:
https://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/8288/bill-lawrence-filter-analysis
I use it with Duncan Distortion with great success.
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Chistopher
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Basically your best options are a passive bass cut, a passive treble cut, a black ice boost, phase switching the middle position.
If you absolutely need to have mods, I would suggest replacing the tone controls with two push pulls, one puts a passive bass cut on the neck, the other gives the "Arlo cocked wah" mod on the bridge. You could try the Eldred mod for something simpler, but I prefer the Arlo, it essentially gives you a band pass filter on the bridge pickup that cuts treble and bass.
If you absolutely need to have mods, I would suggest replacing the tone controls with two push pulls, one puts a passive bass cut on the neck, the other gives the "Arlo cocked wah" mod on the bridge. You could try the Eldred mod for something simpler, but I prefer the Arlo, it essentially gives you a band pass filter on the bridge pickup that cuts treble and bass.
Yeah, I use mine into a Deluxe on 4 or so, with a TS-inspired pedal. Or a non-master volume Mesa Blue Angel. Fantastic, dynamic sound.
freefrog
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+1 on the ideas above.
As they already involve parallel inductors* or capacitors (in series or in parallel), let's recall that such components can be used altogether in a VariTone giving various notched frequencies from mids to bass range.
This circuit has a bad rep because many recent applications use too low inductance chokes**. But a vintage specs VariTone is an interesting option, especially with vintage sounding PUs like Seth Lover's. The last notched positions give access to an out of phase kind of tone without having to reverse the phase...
*On inductors, I've shared a few things in a past topic: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/for...-changing-the-voicing-of-pickups…#post6244220
**A flawed Gibson schematic evokes a 1.5H choke. A VariTone needs 5 to 10 times more to work properly. ;-)
FWIW. HTH.
As they already involve parallel inductors* or capacitors (in series or in parallel), let's recall that such components can be used altogether in a VariTone giving various notched frequencies from mids to bass range.
This circuit has a bad rep because many recent applications use too low inductance chokes**. But a vintage specs VariTone is an interesting option, especially with vintage sounding PUs like Seth Lover's. The last notched positions give access to an out of phase kind of tone without having to reverse the phase...
*On inductors, I've shared a few things in a past topic: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/for...-changing-the-voicing-of-pickups…#post6244220
**A flawed Gibson schematic evokes a 1.5H choke. A VariTone needs 5 to 10 times more to work properly. ;-)
FWIW. HTH.
