Antiquity surfer microphonic?

[tritheory]

I was playing on my strat last night and the middle pickup was giving me a high pitched squeal when in the high gain cahnnel of my Bogner. Wondering if this was due to the fact they are not wax potted?

I am thinking I want a pickups with a little less glass, little more mids to handle higher gain better...

How do the texas hots compare to the Fralin Blues Specials and Suhr V60's?

Steve

 

[jeremy]

Re: Antiquity surfer microphonic?

sounds like it might be microphonic. i prefer the mids of the texas hots

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Antiquity surfer microphonic?

Take the pickguard off and strap some black electrical tape across the bottoms of the pickups. It'll dampen their ability to squeal for the most part.
I use strats into a Bogner, and one set I like a lot is Chubtone 69's with an overwound bridge pickup. mgray55@hotmail.com is Mike Gray's Email address.
He winds killer strat pickups for around $160 a set. I also love his El Gordo/63's set, and my favorite Duncans are the Surfer Custom bridge/2 Surfers.

 

[tritheory]

Re: Antiquity surfer microphonic?

Cool advice on the electric tape...I bought some of the new stack + pickups to replace the neck and middle old ones in my Tyler and cannot believe how much they sound like my surfers.

I am tempted to put a set in the neck and middle of my strat with my JB JR. or screamin lil demon in the bridge and have the strat completly noiseless.

Thoughts?

Or surfer bridge and maybe have pickups wax potted and the suhr silent backplate system?

Steve

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Antiquity surfer microphonic?

I really never have a problem with squealing strat pickups. The only time I did was when I had an aluminum pickguard. It resonated along with the pickups and would cascade into squealing if the gain was too high. I ditched the aluminum, and decided to always use plastic from now on.