Mahogany Tele Build

Thanks!

I can't truly solo the middle pickup, but as I'm getting to know the wiring scheme, I figured out that if I put master volume down low but not off, and put the blend pot up to 10, I get mostly to nearly all middle pickup

In the video, that amp / effects chain is my old run-of-the-mill standby: Boss CS-3, DS-1, and an old Fender DeVille 212.

I'll record a decent video showing what the guitar actually sounds like, not just the effects/amp in the next couple of days. You could plug damn near anything into my board and it will sound about like that, haha

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Looks great. Love the color. Glad you ended up doing single/mini/P-90...I also love the look of that.
I assume most of your sound clip was the P-90 pup...sounded awesome. Got a little heavy/muddy when you added the mini. I'll bet it would also sound good if you could isolate the mini.
 
GuitarDoc said:
Looks great. Love the color. Glad you ended up doing single/mini/P-90...I also love the look of that.
I assume most of your sound clip was the P-90 pup...sounded awesome. Got a little heavy/muddy when you added the mini. I'll bet it would also sound good if you could isolate the mini.
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That clip was mostly the Quarter Pounder bridge pickup. I love that pickup.

EDIT: I had the switch backwards (up was bridge, down was neck) and have since remedied that to make more sense. You're not seeing things, though, I had the switch "up" in that clip

I agree that the mini hum is more muddy than anything else right now. I think I know why - I have it on a 250K audio-taper pot, and I need/want to change that to a 500K linear taper pot.

250K to 500K will brighten it somewhat. And audio taper is nice for volume or tone sometimes, but I think I actually prefer linear taper across the board. For this Blend pot, even more so - it does nothing from 1-9, then from 9-10 it goes from barely detectable to overpowering the other pickups. Linear will sort that out.

I looked in my email and I bought all these parts in 2011 (!) when I was less informed.

As you may have guessed, I am a tinkerer (aren't we all, if we landed on the SDUGF?) so changing things here and there is fun/interesting for me
 
ImmortalSix said:
That clip was mostly the Quarter Pounder bridge pickup. I love that pickup.

EDIT: I had the switch backwards (up was bridge, down was neck) and have since remedied that to make more sense. You're not seeing things, though, I had the switch "up" in that clip

I agree that the mini hum is more muddy than anything else right now. I think I know why - I have it on a 250K audio-taper pot, and I need/want to change that to a 500K linear taper pot.

250K to 500K will brighten it somewhat. And audio taper is nice for volume or tone sometimes, but I think I actually prefer linear taper across the board. For this Blend pot, even more so - it does nothing from 1-9, then from 9-10 it goes from barely detectable to overpowering the other pickups. Linear will sort that out.

I looked in my email and I bought all these parts in 2011 (!) when I was less informed.

As you may have guessed, I am a tinkerer (aren't we all, if we landed on the SDUGF?) so changing things here and there is fun/interesting for me
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Well, that 1/4 pounder sounded awesome!
 
GuitarDoc said:
Man, I love that 1/4 pounder all by itself!!
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Yeah! It's great - this is my first time using one and I'm impressed so far. Really lives up to it's description of getting humbucker type fat tones. It sounds strangely like a regular Telecaster pickup clean, but dirty it really feels big
 
ImmortalSix said:
That clip was mostly the Quarter Pounder bridge pickup. I love that pickup.

EDIT: I had the switch backwards (up was bridge, down was neck) and have since remedied that to make more sense. You're not seeing things, though, I had the switch "up" in that clip

I agree that the mini hum is more muddy than anything else right now. I think I know why - I have it on a 250K audio-taper pot, and I need/want to change that to a 500K linear taper pot.

250K to 500K will brighten it somewhat. And audio taper is nice for volume or tone sometimes, but I think I actually prefer linear taper across the board. For this Blend pot, even more so - it does nothing from 1-9, then from 9-10 it goes from barely detectable to overpowering the other pickups. Linear will sort that out.

I looked in my email and I bought all these parts in 2011 (!) when I was less informed.

As you may have guessed, I am a tinkerer (aren't we all, if we landed on the SDUGF?) so changing things here and there is fun/interesting for me
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Failing that, as a worst case scenario just replace it with a firebird pickup and you should be able to get the same dark tones but with much brighter options. And it'll still look the same. :P
 
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