Hot pickup cooling down

Eddie J.

Eddie J.

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Ok, this one is not a real problem, it`s something that i want to understand.

Imagine that you have a hot bridge pickup and want to make it sound as a lower output pickup. What of the following would bring your sound closest to the real stuff (low output pickup)?

1. Using your volume knob.
2. Phase out wiring
3. Parallel wiring
4. something else?
 
Re: Hot pickup cooling down

I've done the parallel/series thing, and it is useful, although it won't make a hot pup sound low output. Among others, I did series/parallel w/a SD Invader. When I flipped it to parallel, it took some edge off the pup, but it didn't sound like a PAF. Using your volume knob, IME, will get you some of the way there also. My main problem w/using the volume knob in such a fashion is that it often made my tone much duller. It was good enough for mellowing out, say, a short passage in a song, but I didn't like to do it beyond that. Of course, you could compensate w/your amps tone controls, but for me, that wasn't as desirable as keeping my gtr volume wide open. Just a personal preference.

Recently, some forum bros were talking about a way to avoid tone loss when turning the gtr's volume knob down. I forget what that wiring and/or component method was; maybe someone will come back w/that.
 
Re: Hot pickup cooling down

I'd do the treble mod and roll back my tone to get more of a vintage tone.
 
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