Old hot stacks

[Marzinno]

Won these recently on ebay, threw this together just to try em out,I'm having such a blast playing it,I don't want to disassemble it to make it look pretty!!

 

[vinta9e]

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Forget 'pretty', guitars are for playing not drooling... or are they?

 

[Marzinno]

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Lol,I agree I think I'm leavin her as is cause its playing so well,ill jinks it just to put a flashy pickguard on it!!

 

[saladin]

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I've always wondered why they made them that color???

 

[Marzinno]

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Not sure exactly either,but I think they are kinda cool that way,they stick out from other pickups,lol.

I also happen to know a great tech and luthier, who has quite a few replacement covers including these!

 

[vinta9e]

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I've always wondered why they made them that color???

So you could tell they are Duncans from a hundred yards? Or just for the sake of matching to a tortoise pickguard?

I wonder how these duncan stacks sound... Marzinno, have you got some clips by any chance?

 

[Evan Skopp]

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I've always wondered why they made them that color???

It was before my time so I don't really know if this is true or not. What I heard is that the molding house did the first dimensional samples for the solid cover Hot Stack in that color just because that's what was in the mold. They weren't color matching so they didn't care about the color. Some folks at SD liked that color so much they ran the production run in the same color. True or rumor? I have no idea. But Brent Mason made the color famous.

 

[saladin]

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Thanks Evan! Marzinno...can you give us some clips?
I've wondered about these for years but there's not much
in the way of youtube vids to get an idea of how they sound.

 

[saladin]

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So you could tell they are Duncans from a hundred yards?

These have been around since the eighties but I've never had the chance to try or even see one in person!

 

[Marzinno]

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Ahh yeah let me think,can I post the clips here?


Or how about sound cloud?

 

[Marzinno]

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I have a soundcloud,search Marzinno Lembo there is the same pic next to the clip, I think I was clean and dirty in the same clip,if not tell me how to post some here,I'm a dumbass lol

 

[Marzinno]

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Lol not sure if u could spot a difference from a hundred yards , but they definitely aren't on the shelf at every guitar store

 

[Marzinno]

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http://m.soundcloud.com/marzinno-lembo/trying-to-lead-over-rhythm

 

[Marzinno]

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Added a sound clip

 

[Chickenwings]

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Those were my first aftermarket pickups. I didnt like em much but that was my own stoopid fault. I wired them in parallel instead of series. Live and learn hey? I was only 19 and didint know my ass from my elbow.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

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http://m.soundcloud.com/marzinno-lembo/trying-to-lead-over-rhythm

You can post SoundCloud clips directly into threads. Go into Advanced Edit, click on the SoundCloud icon, and paste in the URL. Hit 'Post'.

Whilst you're at it, join the SDUGF group across at SoundCloud too - link down below.

 

[Marzinno]

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Thanks chris,

I posted it and it works from my iphone!

Also thanks for the info on the sd group on soundcloud,I joined.