Re: Invader Love
by the time people adjust the pole pieces a little it opens it up and you can do more than say fear factory style stuff to my ears anyways. I mean it's got a stupidly high inductance like just under 10H (9.6H roughly) as we all know how high the DC resistance is. You're the second person who I've seen call it bright. I thought the first person was nuts I mean this in a good way the guys played all over Canada so I have respect for him. He was playing it on a mexican strat.Single volume and tone sort of setup with a typical 47nf capacitor. I forget if i did 50s wiring on it as I've known this guy for 5-8 years.
For anyone who isn't a fan of the invader some things to try
to adjust the pole pieces use a floyd rose allen key , the closer they get to the strings the more the string responds (extra volume / brightness)
1m pots can help - extra volume and brightness
a no load tone pot if you want to replace just one pot (500k)
a smaller tone capacitor like a 10nf or 22nf if people find it too muddy, dark or compressed.
stainless steel strings to brighten it up. I find it's one of those pickups
if its too bright one 250k pot, stay away from no load tone pots , larger tone capacitors, half wound or pure nickel strings. Pure nickel strings are more for people with fixed bridge guitars. A larger tone capacitor would be like 68nf or so as even at 10 it'll cut some frequencies but like going from a 8 to a 9 high E some people will notice it more than others.
What I like about really loud pickups is parallel and coilsplits/coiltaps can be more useful too
for pole piece adjustments even though this isn't an invader the same principal applies
