New Pup for Alder/Maple Charvel...???

[Aceman]

After seeing the clip - Get a Custom and PG neck and call it a day. You'll be happy.

 

[Mincer]

That's right, but I really am not into modern metal pickups. The most modern-sounding pickup I own is a Custom5, and I don't find it to be that modern...

I find it wonderful how different ears can hear different things, even untrained one like mine.

The Alnico II Pro remains my favorite pickup, though.

 

[WERNER 1]

Do you know what's under the hood, have you measured the pots and seen the cap?

Before I ever go pickup swapping, I always like to know for sure what the 'big picture' of the whole circuit is.

Maybe you got a rogue reading volume pot or something.

I do not,,.. well not exactly yet,. I'm assuming (yeah I know..) that it's a 500k/500k set up. I run my controls wide open, but I have some Bourn Pots coming from Mouser today so I'm thinking about going with a 500k Vol pot w/Detent and a 250k tone to maybe "tone" it down a bit (See what I did there!?! ) .... of course I will double check the existing electronics and see what they've got going on... maybe some yahoo at the factory put a 1M pot in there or some thing ... I feel like somethings going on with the Super Switch as well so I disconnected the coil taps for both pickups just to make sure... I felt like even when I was in the #1/Bridge position notch on the switch that I was still picking up some faint single coil sound over the top... :grumble:

The video recording I did had the Coil taps unhooked btw

 

[WERNER 1]

I'd like to get that AX8 preset from you.

Let me get my tone dialed in (Pickups, electronics, and preset all done) and I'll post a good recording of it... along with a link to the preset

 

[WERNER 1]

I know Jeff from a good while back on our own forum. He makes great pups and has fantastic attention to detail.


Alder strat + maple neck doing 80's hair and classic rock?

SH-5 Custom

Custom a lil too bright with a Floyd?

SH-11 Custom Custom

I do have a Spare custom one from Jeff ( 8.9k, Asymmetrical wound, A6 mags) I have that in a few of my Kramer Focus 3000's (Alder, Maple/Rosewood, Floyd w/Brass block, 500k vol./250k tone) .. I may throw it in along with the new FU Bridge and see how it fairs... I originally had him make those for my older Multi-ply body Kramer Striker as it was a fairly dark guitar,... but we'll see.

Once I see how that one sounds I may reach out to him on another custom wound one that will combat the tonality of this guitar and compliment it