Extended Range Triple Shots?

Johnny the Kid

Johnny the Kid

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Has this been an idea tossed around at all? Is it a custom shop thing?

Just curious. I know that extended range pickups used to be soapbars but now more manufacturers are building them as standard humbuckers with legs and everything. Even EMG offers their pickups as "passive mounts".
 
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So you are talking about a Triple Shot for 7,8,& 9 string, that use standard mounts? Interesting idea. My initial thought is that there isn't a huge demand, just for the fact that the music created with many strings tends to be super gainy, and the subtleties of the TS switching tends to disappear with a ton of gain and certain styles of playing.
 
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I had a set of triple shots installed once upon a time. They're probably fine if only used occasionally but with constant switching they proved to be kinda unreliable.
 
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Mincer said:
So you are talking about a Triple Shot for 7,8,& 9 string, that use standard mounts? Interesting idea. My initial thought is that there isn't a huge demand, just for the fact that the music created with many strings tends to be super gainy, and the subtleties of the TS switching tends to disappear with a ton of gain and certain styles of playing.
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Well I understand that but there is an embrace of very particular clean tones in prog metal these days. Plenty of those guitars are taking advantage of 5 way super switch wirings. I was just curious as to whether this idea had been talked about at all. I'd love to get a set for a 7 and or 8 string.
 
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Johnny the Kid said:
Well I understand that but there is an embrace of very particular clean tones in prog metal these days. Plenty of those guitars are taking advantage of 5 way super switch wirings. I was just curious as to whether this idea had been talked about at all. I'd love to get a set for a 7 and or 8 string.
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I have my custom-body two pikcup RG wired with 5 way superswtich using classic the classic PRS wiring scheme. I think it's by far the most useful thing you can do with two humbuckers, and all the sounds are available with the flick of a 5 way.
 
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Johnny the Kid said:
Well I understand that but there is an embrace of very particular clean tones in prog metal these days. Plenty of those guitars are taking advantage of 5 way super switch wirings. I was just curious as to whether this idea had been talked about at all. I'd love to get a set for a 7 and or 8 string.
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I would think if the sales guys were hearing that there was a demand for it, then they would go ahead and make them. I still think the Custom Shop could make them, though.
 
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Mincer said:
I would think if the sales guys were hearing that there was a demand for it, then they would go ahead and make them. I still think the Custom Shop could make them, though.
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Ok. Just curious. Thanks man!
 
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There are significant molding costs to making additional sizes of plastic parts like that, so there would have to be some larger demand that justified the mold costs. If it were me, I would simply get the standard one and cut/graft it onto a longer ring. You just need the bass side of it.
 
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Just a suggestion, I've never used triple shots, but would it be possible for you to take it off the current mounting ring and mod your extended range mounting ring to fit the switch?
 
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Probably not the way it is designed. The switches fit into a special, taller part of the ring. Frank's suggestion might work, but you'd have to be really good at matching up 2 parts to not notice it. Perhaps rings could be made out of wood, too.
 
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Mincer said:
Probably not the way it is designed. The switches fit into a special, taller part of the ring. Frank's suggestion might work, but you'd have to be really good at matching up 2 parts to not notice it. Perhaps rings could be made out of wood, too.
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I wonder if the electronics could be removed from a triple shot and grafted onto a wood ring.
 
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Another idea could be to simply cut off the bass side of the unit, and mount that part to the guitar.
 
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