Hi everyone this is my first thread here. I've got some Ant. Texas Hots with custom bridge in a 1983 JV Squier Strat & I'm finding them a bit too edgy/bright. I've got a .1 Orange Drop cap in it. The guitar has got a Basswood body with maple/rosewood neck. Does anyone have any suggestions for warming up the tone? (It must be the Basswood), (I've got a custom strat with underwound Fralin Vintage Hots in a alder body which I compared it to)
Antiquity Texas Hots (To bright?)
- Thread starter RobBozic
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STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Re: Antiquity Texas Hots (To bright?)
This isn't my experience with the Texas Hots...You may have them adjusted to close to the strings...I Like mine at around 3/32" bridge with the neck and middle a bit lower..If you crank them up too high,you run head on into physics,things like too bright,shrill,or harsh sounding possibilities...Some guys like the pickups close,but I Like them lowered a bit...Try that... .1 is very dark on your tone control also....I Like .022 or .047 at the extreme normally...Make sure your pots are 250k and not 500k...Ya never know?
John
RobBozic said:
This isn't my experience with the Texas Hots...You may have them adjusted to close to the strings...I Like mine at around 3/32" bridge with the neck and middle a bit lower..If you crank them up too high,you run head on into physics,things like too bright,shrill,or harsh sounding possibilities...Some guys like the pickups close,but I Like them lowered a bit...Try that... .1 is very dark on your tone control also....I Like .022 or .047 at the extreme normally...Make sure your pots are 250k and not 500k...Ya never know?
John
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Lewguitar
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Re: Antiquity Texas Hots (To bright?)
This isn't my experience with the Texas Hots either. In fact, I am absolutley certain that the Texas Hots are not as bright as the original pickups in my '63 Strat or the Fralin Vintage Hots (mine are 3% underwound) in one of my other Strats. It could be your guitar, your playing style, your amp or your speakers. It could even be the bridge in your guitar and not the wood. I replaced the stock MIJ bridge/vibrato on my Strat with the APS-2/Twangbanger combination with a DiMarzio bridge/vibrato that was supposedly an accurate repro of a vintage 50's/60's Strat bridge. I've had that bridge on two guitars now and in both guitars the resulting tone was edgier and brighter than I prefer. In the first guitar I replaced that Dimarzio bridge with a Fender Vintage reissue model and the tone became much richer and more attractive. I'm going to replace that DiMarzio in this second Strat too and this time, if I hear the same improvement, put that Dimarzio bridge on Ebay and just get rid of it.
Lew
This isn't my experience with the Texas Hots either. In fact, I am absolutley certain that the Texas Hots are not as bright as the original pickups in my '63 Strat or the Fralin Vintage Hots (mine are 3% underwound) in one of my other Strats. It could be your guitar, your playing style, your amp or your speakers. It could even be the bridge in your guitar and not the wood. I replaced the stock MIJ bridge/vibrato on my Strat with the APS-2/Twangbanger combination with a DiMarzio bridge/vibrato that was supposedly an accurate repro of a vintage 50's/60's Strat bridge. I've had that bridge on two guitars now and in both guitars the resulting tone was edgier and brighter than I prefer. In the first guitar I replaced that Dimarzio bridge with a Fender Vintage reissue model and the tone became much richer and more attractive. I'm going to replace that DiMarzio in this second Strat too and this time, if I hear the same improvement, put that Dimarzio bridge on Ebay and just get rid of it.
Lew
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STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Re: Antiquity Texas Hots (To bright?)
Hey Lew and Curly...I think we're all deaf and we can't hear "bright" anymore! LOL
I'm certain that's it....
John
Hey Lew and Curly...I think we're all deaf and we can't hear "bright" anymore! LOL
I'm certain that's it....
John
Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
Re: Antiquity Texas Hots (To bright?)
I like the quote from Paul Reed Smith, which I read here a few days ago via Aleclee.
"Everything effects everything" That really sums up why it's impossible to give pickup recommendations to people....they all have different guitars, wood, amps etc.
One thing I've learned from trying a lot of nice toys is that the quality in one piece reveals the lack of quality in another. That means the expensive Duncans you just put in your Squire revealed all of it's shortcomings. It's also what makes us musicians always crave 'something more.' I'd say, pull the pickups out, sell that guitar, and return those pickups to a guitar that'll make'em shine.
I like the quote from Paul Reed Smith, which I read here a few days ago via Aleclee.
"Everything effects everything" That really sums up why it's impossible to give pickup recommendations to people....they all have different guitars, wood, amps etc.
One thing I've learned from trying a lot of nice toys is that the quality in one piece reveals the lack of quality in another. That means the expensive Duncans you just put in your Squire revealed all of it's shortcomings. It's also what makes us musicians always crave 'something more.' I'd say, pull the pickups out, sell that guitar, and return those pickups to a guitar that'll make'em shine.
STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Re: Antiquity Texas Hots (To bright?)
Curly....Now wait a minute! :smack:
That just tells me that the Surfers are brighter to me,but I still think I'm deaf and don't really hear "bright" like others hear "bright" follow me? :32: :wink:
Curly said:
Curly....Now wait a minute! :smack:
That just tells me that the Surfers are brighter to me,but I still think I'm deaf and don't really hear "bright" like others hear "bright" follow me? :32: :wink:
