Full shreds and pole pieces

[Rex_Rocker]

"Nazgul..." Even though I actually really like that pickup -- tight as **** -- first time I've seen that on the front page, I was like "come on, really?"

Not a fan of LOTR, I assume?

 

[jeremy]

or the pup who joined the olympics

 

[Burn]

Not a fan of LOTR, I assume?

Oh, I totally am. The name just sounded a little try-hard to me.

Hey, they should make a more mellow set and name the neck pickup "Frodo"

 

[Bill Dennis]

I have purchased some allen head pole pieces to try in some different pickups. My hope is they tighten and brighten. The JB in my 5150 homage may get them first or maybe the custom in the RG I gig with

 

[Burn]

For posterity, I've also tried the FS7 bridge with a small ceramic. The sound is actually *very* similar to a Custom SH-5. So much so, that I went ahead and got an actual Custom to compare it against. The Custom has a little more "oomph," and chunk, at the expense of some tightness, but not by much.

The main difference is on the wound strings where the FS is tighter, but also a bit more anemic when distorted.

Also, my copies of both FS bridge and SH-5 Custom have slightly offset coils. By about 0.3k ohms. Might be within tolerance, but I remember the 6 string versions reading nearly identical for both coils. So does the Pegasus 7. I wonder if the 7 string versions of the Custom wind have offset coils by design?

 

[fretburner]

I finally found a guitar which made the Full Shred sound good: PGMM21 Mikro!

This pickup has been on many super strats and never liked it. Sounded thin and not having much "attack". I even sent this to a repair shop coz I thought it was already broken (the shop was honest though, and told me my pickup was fine)...

Maybe it's the short scale?

Probably the reason why Viv Campbell had it in his Nighstwan (Gibson-scale, superstrat)

Balanced pickup. Articulate. Sounds bright under heavy gain. "Warm" enough on clean (which is weird). It is a shredder! \m/

That's a Jazz Neck btw... And it's brighter than the Full Shred when playing clean.

 

[jeremy]

nice!

 

[Artie]

For Jazz neck, I install screws toward bridge. Remove 3 slugs under the bass strings. If it has a cover, this is invisible. If it doesn't, mcmaster carr sells plastic slugs that are exactly the size of humbucker slugs. Put 3 in, get a silver sharpy, no one will notice.

On both, once you do the mod, adjust the pole pieces on the coil with all 6 magnetic poles for even string output.

Boom. Airy, touch sensitive, articulate high strings, non muddy low strings.

Cool trick. I wonder how this might work with a 59n?

 

[GuitarStv]

Does this mean putting in shorter screw polepieces would brighten up an antiquity neck pickup that sounds a little too soft?

 

[jeremy]

shorter 1022 poles would push it in the right direction