prophetofthor
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i have a set of G&L S-500 pickups. this is the official blurb
i bought a G&L S-500 guitar in my younger years. i was a high gain player. the guitar sounded great in store, but on stage or louder volume i got horrible microphonic feedback. i enjoyed the feel and neck of the guitar so i just swapped the pickups out and threw the S-500 pickups on the "pickup pile".
to the present ::
i've been looking at noiseless or noise reduced pickups for a mexi strat i have. from memory i would say the S-500 pups are too hot for "vintage" strat tones. i did some googling and ppl seem to rave about these pickups. so i go to the pickup pile and inspect the S-500 pups. i dont have easy access to a digital camera so i will try to explain what i'm looking at.
the back of the pickup has a brass or copper looking metal plate with a solder point on it (probably from the ground of the pickup winding). i'm assuming it works like the famous fralin baseplate. i gently pulled on the plate and to my surprise the ceramic magnet popped right out. i've never handled a humbucker magnet, but from pictures i've seen it looks about the same size. above the magnet was the steel poles with 2 wires coming out. i could not see the copper wiring because there is a black plastic housing the wind and the steel poles. there was a VERY small amount of wax between the magnet and black plastic housing.
my main 2 questions ::
1) if the amount of wax was very small, could that of caused the microphonic feedback? and if so would a "repotting" or a generous amount of wax fix the microphonic feedback?
2) if the baseplate was removed from the pickup, would that lower the output?
i've read somewhere that the DC rest of the S-500 pickups are very low, like 4.6k or something like that. but the monster ceramic magnet makes up for that.
what i would like to do ::
1) repott the pickups (use alot more wax)
2) remove the baseplate from the neck and middle pickups (reduce output)
thoughts/opinions PLEASE ! ! !
i bought a G&L S-500 guitar in my younger years. i was a high gain player. the guitar sounded great in store, but on stage or louder volume i got horrible microphonic feedback. i enjoyed the feel and neck of the guitar so i just swapped the pickups out and threw the S-500 pickups on the "pickup pile".
to the present ::
i've been looking at noiseless or noise reduced pickups for a mexi strat i have. from memory i would say the S-500 pups are too hot for "vintage" strat tones. i did some googling and ppl seem to rave about these pickups. so i go to the pickup pile and inspect the S-500 pups. i dont have easy access to a digital camera so i will try to explain what i'm looking at.
the back of the pickup has a brass or copper looking metal plate with a solder point on it (probably from the ground of the pickup winding). i'm assuming it works like the famous fralin baseplate. i gently pulled on the plate and to my surprise the ceramic magnet popped right out. i've never handled a humbucker magnet, but from pictures i've seen it looks about the same size. above the magnet was the steel poles with 2 wires coming out. i could not see the copper wiring because there is a black plastic housing the wind and the steel poles. there was a VERY small amount of wax between the magnet and black plastic housing.
my main 2 questions ::
1) if the amount of wax was very small, could that of caused the microphonic feedback? and if so would a "repotting" or a generous amount of wax fix the microphonic feedback?
2) if the baseplate was removed from the pickup, would that lower the output?
i've read somewhere that the DC rest of the S-500 pickups are very low, like 4.6k or something like that. but the monster ceramic magnet makes up for that.
what i would like to do ::
1) repott the pickups (use alot more wax)
2) remove the baseplate from the neck and middle pickups (reduce output)
thoughts/opinions PLEASE ! ! !
