Rex_Rocker
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Not a fan of LOTR, I assume?
Full shreds and pole pieces
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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
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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
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?
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
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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.
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.
Artie
Peaveyologist
Cool trick. I wonder how this might work with a 59n?
RayBarbeeMusic
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Works great. 59 neck also benefits from alnico 3 mag swap.
Bowtomecha
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back in the day players like Neal Schon would trim the pole screws down on their humbucker to get better attack and definition. I think staggering the ends to tweak the poles to give more body to the higher strings and less flub on the lower ones can be accomplished somewhat like this. Trial and error and some spare pole screws just in case. I have a couple sets of hexes I got from somebody here and I believe they are roughly 5/8 and the fillisters are 3/4. It’s a really small difference in length. I’m sure material and head shape differences play a part in the difference in sound as well. From the looks of it, the full shred poles are less than 5/8. They only stick out to the mounting screws in the bottom. My Pegasus with hexes has them sticking out about twice as much. So i think there’s a Goldilocks zone to be appreciated there.
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