Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

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Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

can you have a sound like that with sh1-sh4? and the san dimas -so cal?

16'50"

solution ?

http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/optimising-hss-for-distortion/

 

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Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

I think the first 5 min he is using the middle pickup so a single coil in the middle may do the job. I got my MIM 2014 SoCal and it has room for a middle pickup since it is routed HSH. I tried SH-2/TB-4 split with a ceramic single coil, maybe I should try again with an SSL-1 but back then it was good enough to get spark clean, very usable indeed but the magic of a true SC just was not there, specially if you want to step into the bluesy overdriven kind of sound. If you are very picky on true single coil sound the split may not be the choice... UNLESS you use some HB that are meant to sound particularly good in split mode. Here in the forum lots of people say screaming deamon is a great all around HB even if you include the split tones in the whole picture, or read an article somewhere in the blog about HBs that have good split tone.

Or you can go HSS, put some stacked single coil from Duncan in the neck then the SSL-1 or SSL-5 in the middle, position 4 with auto split should give you a much better quack and still cancel hum. The STK-S10 neck or the STK-S6 can live in an combo with the TB-4, I get nice lead tone and very usable quack, the S10n it will not have all the chime as the SSL-1 but then I switch to middle pickup for a true single coil tone. The S6 sounds more like a single coil and quack is better. I prefer however the S10n because I like its fat single coil tone for soloing with high gain but it is just personal preference.

 

[xerophthalmic]

Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

I just finished a Hamer Chaparral (HSH Superstrat) that I setup like this: neck: Dimarzo Pro Track (7.7k), middle: Zhangbucker 9k Strat pickup with a tap at 6.3k, bridge: Novak HUM-WR wide range pickup (10.3k) in regular humbucker dimensions. The controls are an S-1 500k volume pot, 500k tone, and a 4P5T Superswitch. The switching works as follows:

S-1 up...............................S-1 down (500k bypass from volume wiper to the wiper of the tone pot)
1 Bridge HB..........................Bridge split
2 9k middle...........................Bridge split + 6.3k Middle
3 Bridge HB + Neck HB...........Bridge split + Neck split
4 6.3k middle (500k bypass)...Neck split + 6.3k middle
5 Neck HB............................Neck split

This scheme gets all of the LP/Tele/Strat selections that you'd want. All of the splitting works great, the humbuckers sound great, the 500k bypass makes the SC sounds more mellow, and the extra hot 9k middle selection is a fantastic alternate lead sound--tonally closer to a HB but responsiveness, attack, clarity is all Strat. As far as an everything-guitar goes, it's as close as I care to venture and it works for me, all ten selections sound good to my ears. I think for your situation the only hang up would be that the split neck does not really sound like the neck SC sound you'd want. Maybe the extra hot middle sound would make up for it?

 

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Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

there are good ideas here

and i think that a ec boost is the best thing for the neck pickup but something else must come for the bridge position

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

An SH-4 or an SH-6 for the bridge won't need any help from a boost. The Dimarzio Pro Tack from the above example is voiced like a classic humbucker. It probably won't need any boost help if you used that for the neck in a simlar configuration to the above example.

 

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Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

i think there are no strat better than the Sambora's model but it's really hard to find at a decent price

but Fender does not make this product anymore
so, now we have the hss deluxe (no floyd rose) : it must be tried

The san dimas and so cal have the positive thing : the floyd rose can move at the opposite side

about the EC boost : i just talked about i like the versatiliy of this for the neck position with A SINGLE COIL

but for an humbucker in the bridge position, yes you don't need that

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

Well here's a plan A then:

Charvel So Cal
HSS pickguard
5 way super switch with these connection (I think because I havn't taken the time to draw it up)
1) JB or Distortion in series
2) slug coil of bridge pickup with middle pickup.
3) middle SSL-2
4) neck pickup (a classic strat plus) and screw coil of bridge humbucker
5) neck pickup alone from an onboard preamp

Three knobs: master volume, master tone, and the neck pickup boost.

Plan B:
HH
JB or Distortion and 59n
Master volume and master tone
5 way super switch
1) Bridge humbucker in series
2) Inside coils
3) Both humbuckers together
4) Outside coils
5) Neck pickup in series

You wont need a boost on the 59n for Gary Moore neck pickup licks.

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

Plan C:

JB or Distortion in the bridge position, Dimarzio Bluesbucker in the neck.
3 way switch
Push pull pots to split the bridge humbucker and for series/parallel on the neck pickup.
Master volume and master tone.

 

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Re: Charvel so cal / san dimas in HSH, so a pickup for the middle position

you are a genius

i must think about these recommandations