Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

[dotsdad]

Thanks to everyone for helping me get the mud out of the A2Pro neck pickup in my EVH guitar. I figured I would summarize what worked in hopes of helping others with the same issue some headaches:

1) The first mod was swapping the A2 magnet for an A5. That definitely scooped out some of the excess mids, but the low end was still flubby.

2) Then I swapped the long filister screws for short hex screws. This did sharpen the attack a little bit, and it made the pickup look hella kewl (one row of chrome slugs and one row of black hexes! ), but the bottom end was still flubby.

3) Then I lowered the pickup and raised the hex poles to try and get a bit more single coil bite to it. It was a very subtle change for the better, but still flubby on the bottom.

4) Then I stumbled upon this drawing in the Support section. I wired in the .047 capacitor, cranked it up, and the skies opened up and the angels started to sing. The ghost of Hendrix even stuck his head out of the clouds and said "dayum dood, that sounds killer!"

Anyhoo, this was the magic touch:



Enjoy! :headbang:

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

Good on you not leaving well enough alone. I did the same thing, to make a 59n manageable. Do you have sound clips? No doubt that sounds nothing like a normal A2P.

 

[Blille]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

Word on the street is than an A2P with an A5 is a Jazz, right?

Congrats on finding what you were after


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[Tone Meister]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

Thanks to everyone for helping me get the mud out of the A2Pro neck pickup in my EVH guitar. I figured I would summarize what worked in hopes of helping others with the same issue some headaches:

1) The first mod was swapping the A2 magnet for an A5. That definitely scooped out some of the excess mids, but the low end was still flubby.

2) Then I swapped the long filister screws for short hex screws. This did sharpen the attack a little bit, and it made the pickup look hella kewl (one row of chrome slugs and one row of black hexes! ), but the bottom end was still flubby.

3) Then I lowered the pickup and raised the hex poles to try and get a bit more single coil bite to it. It was a very subtle change for the better, but still flubby on the bottom.

4) Then I stumbled upon this drawing in the Support section. I wired in the .047 capacitor, cranked it up, and the skies opened up and the angels started to sing. The ghost of Hendrix even stuck his head out of the clouds and said "dayum dood, that sounds killer!"

Anyhoo, this was the magic touch:

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Enjoy! :headbang:

You bet. I had also posted that somewhere recently for another member, not sure where. In your case the .047 uF cap worked, but there are times when that value needs adjusting upward or downward.

Anyway, congrats on finding the solution that works for you!

 

[Thundermtn]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

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[Clint 55]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

Good news. Hybrid coils also works well because more single coil tone comes thru and there's more complexity that negates the slop.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

Word on the street is than an A2P with an A5 is a Jazz, right?

Congrats on finding what you were after


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Indeed it is. Sometimes the pickup we think would work, doesn't...I had to swap the magnet on my tried-and-true APH-1 to an A5 because it was *so muddy* in a poplar-bodied guitar. This fixed the problem for me.

 

[dotsdad]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

In your case the .047 uF cap worked, but there are times when that value needs adjusting upward or downward.

Just out of curiosity, how do the cap values work for bass cut? Bigger cap = lower high-pass frequency, or higher high-pass frequency?

 

[dotsdad]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

Do you have sound clips? No doubt that sounds nothing like a normal A2P.

I did some comparisons when I was fiddling with the screws and p'up height. Didn't think to do before and after with the cap though.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Muddy Neck Pickup - MYSTERY SOLVED!

Just out of curiosity, how do the cap values work for bass cut? Bigger cap = lower high-pass frequency, or higher high-pass frequency?

The larger the cap the larger the tone. a .1uf cap will let most of the bass through wheras a .001uf cap will let almost none through.

Another way to think of it is the same frequencies that are being bled of when you use a certain sized cap as a tone cap are the same ones that will be preserved when you use it as a bass cut cap.