Les Paul Wiring for Strat-like Neck tones?
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beaubrummels
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Les Paul Wiring for Strat-like Neck tones?
Don't know about Mayer's equipment, but I can say Duncan Seths have a fendery twang and spank to them. I believe Seths have balanced coils but they are lower winds. The other humbucker that can have a bright fendery twang to them IME is one with unbalanced coils. That twang is best exposed through a thumpy/bright fender amp like a 50's twin or 50's/60's hand wired variant of a fender tube circuit that has a presence control, IME.
Don't know about Mayer's equipment, but I can say Duncan Seths have a fendery twang and spank to them. I believe Seths have balanced coils but they are lower winds. The other humbucker that can have a bright fendery twang to them IME is one with unbalanced coils. That twang is best exposed through a thumpy/bright fender amp like a 50's twin or 50's/60's hand wired variant of a fender tube circuit that has a presence control, IME.
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Lewguitar
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Re: Les Paul Wiring for Strat-like Neck tones?
Seths are twangy stock.
But remove those nickel covers and you'll have a raging rock pickup on your hands!
I've never heard a pickup change personalities to that degree. I much prefer them uncovered.
Those who say the difference between a nickel covered humbucker and the same pickup without a cover is subtle, must have never uncovered a Seth because the difference is NOT subtle at all.
I have two PRS SE's with Seths. Same guitar. Just one with covers and one without and the difference is dramatic. One is polite and one is very aggressive.
Seths are twangy stock.
But remove those nickel covers and you'll have a raging rock pickup on your hands!
I've never heard a pickup change personalities to that degree. I much prefer them uncovered.
Those who say the difference between a nickel covered humbucker and the same pickup without a cover is subtle, must have never uncovered a Seth because the difference is NOT subtle at all.
I have two PRS SE's with Seths. Same guitar. Just one with covers and one without and the difference is dramatic. One is polite and one is very aggressive.
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Clint 55
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Re: Les Paul Wiring for Strat-like Neck tones?
^ I noticed that too. I have an uncovered Seth/Antiquity hybrid in my Strat and it's like a souped up Strat neck pickup. I noticed a huge difference from both a plain covered Seth and also the hybrid covered.
^ I noticed that too. I have an uncovered Seth/Antiquity hybrid in my Strat and it's like a souped up Strat neck pickup. I noticed a huge difference from both a plain covered Seth and also the hybrid covered.
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Re: Les Paul Wiring for Strat-like Neck tones?
This is how I do it, but to stay hum-cancelling and in-phase, you have to flip a magnet in one of the pickups. The inside coils are weaker than a typical Strat...and a Strat with humbuckers are better at doing this than an LP (in fact, a Strat with humbuckers is better at sounding like an LP than an LP at sounding like a Strat).
This is how I do it, but to stay hum-cancelling and in-phase, you have to flip a magnet in one of the pickups. The inside coils are weaker than a typical Strat...and a Strat with humbuckers are better at doing this than an LP (in fact, a Strat with humbuckers is better at sounding like an LP than an LP at sounding like a Strat).
