Advice on Underwound texas specials , How will it sound like?

[DreX]

Re: Advice on Underwound texas specials , How will it sound like?

I´m not trying to turn the texas specials to SSL-1 , or rewind them with diferent wire , just modify them a little bit to see what happens.
Changing magnets is not posible with that pickup , maybe uncharging them ( degauss with a strong magnet but with no way of knowing how much),..
Not what I ask for. But a good question anyway , what would be the result ? for what i now the tone would have less atack and darker tone ... (?)

As a matter of fact I've heard both full gaussed and under-gaussed Texas Specials, because mine had been sitting in a box for almost a decade stuck together, causing them to weaken to about 20 gauss instead of the usual 50. I ordered some large neodymium magnets to charge them back up, and that all went well. The under-charged sound and feel is similar to what you get if you lower the pickups far away from the strings. The dynamics and the response is similar, but there was a lot more retained high with just having the lesser gauss, closer to the strings. Rather than sounding distant, lower gauss sounded weak. In hind sight, I liked the sound, it didn't have quite that shrill top Texas Specials are known for, and when I charged them up, it came right back.

It seems like sound results for underwind if everything goes well would be brigter with less mids, less output .. not sure if that what i want ..

Probably it is best to sell that and get something more of my liking.

Either way, don't let people discourage you from having some fun with your pickups. This is a good learning opportunity, any way you look at it.
Just be sure to try and remember how they sound now, so that you'll be clear on how they sound after modification, or even how they sound in comparison to whatever you replace them with.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Advice on Underwound texas specials , How will it sound like?

I wonder how that works. The interesting thing is that the tone pot cap usually bleeds treble to ground, so I wonder how you could put another component in that spot and yet keep high and and discard mids or low end, which I assume you have to do in order to achieve a more trebly vintage sound.

Google RLC Circuit.

A tone control is a simple passive series RC circuit. By changing the capacitor to an inductor OR changing it to a parallel RC circuit, it becomes a high pass filter. (See the G&L tone controls) By adding an inductor to the RC (making it an RLC) you can create a band pass filter, and tune the peak and Q of the filter.

Bill's cube is a band pass filter with frequencies tuned to the electric guitar.

 

[DreX]

Re: Advice on Underwound texas specials , How will it sound like?

Google RLC Circuit.

A tone control is a simple passive series RC circuit. By changing the capacitor to an inductor OR changing it to a parallel RC circuit, it becomes a high pass filter. (See the G&L tone controls) By adding an inductor to the RC (making it an RLC) you can create a band pass filter, and tune the peak and Q of the filter.

Bill's cube is a band pass filter with frequencies tuned to the electric guitar.

Thanks, I forgot all about inductors. I'll have to order a few and play with them.