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King Midas to Cheap Guitars
I like bright guitars. My setup is VERY high gain stuff, and I would never use the tone knob or volume knob. I found that I could use neck pickups if I wired them in parallel, and would pick brighter high output pickups that would overpower the bridge at times. Found my solution:
My first maple neck on a Strat. I think the last time I had a maple neck was in 2000 or so on a Gunslinger that I traded off. Always hated the look, but it works now.
Wasn't going to paint the headstock originally, but the old Squier logo was still slightly visible after sanding.
This one was actually the white and red burst I did a few months ago, I finished painting the rest of the body, looks better now.
Duplicolor Metal Specks Red.
Dimarzio/Ibanez pickups (based on the Breed Neck and Steve's Special), no pots, stereo jack. Neck is wired to the Ring, bridge is wired to the Tip. Then I use a stereo to two mono split cable. No need to balance the pickups as I can record each one separately via DI or into different amps/sims/pedals/etc. I had this pickup combo in another guitar and I needed to get more treble.
Works perfectly, today I tested it plugged into two Morley ABC boxes. One channel on each running to the computer through two instances of Revalver, one channel of the bridge running into a Bad Monkey pedal into an AMT R1, then to the computer, and one channel of the neck running into a Zoom G3 using a Governor sim and then into an AMT E1 into the computer. Both AMT pedals ran through Revalver running a Marshall poweramp into a cabinet IR. Absolutely thick crushing tone.
Oh yeah, if you look closely, the jackplate is inside out. I was hooking everything up solderlessly ala EMG style connectors and the connectors wouldn't fit inside the jack cavity. :banghead:
