macdaddy69
New member
I am in the process of changing out the pups on my Charvel San Dimas and have purchased (well pre-purchased) an EVH Frankenstein HB to go with a new Custom Shop '78 Model. I am fairly new to all of this and have a few questions, which I am sure that many in this forum can answer for me, and I would really appreciate the help and suggestions... #1 Based upon what I have read, the "hotter" of the two pups, which is the EVH should be my bridge pickup, correct? #2 I know that the '78 has specific bridge/neck pups, but I have not seen a bridge/neck specific EVH pup. Are they all the same? #3 I have also not seen or heard about having 4 wires on the EVH, and even though I specified that I wanted a four wire one, it did not seem to matter to the sales dude on the phone who took my order. Are they all going to have 4 wires? Last two are opinion questions, please give me your feedback...#4 I am not trying to be EVH by any means, but I do love the crunchy, snarling, crisp, tone and sound that he produced on the early VH albums. I have heard nothing but good things about the '78, but I kind of worry about the EVH because it is brand new. Does this sound like a good combo for me to go for or should I back off and go with a matched set of '78s and let it be? I just figured that putting the EVH in there instead would give me a little more variation to play around with, but maybe i am making a mistake, please let me know. and finally #5 I was going to have my guitar tech dude go ahead and put in a really good push/pull 500k pot in place of the factory volume pot so that I can switch them between series/parallel configurations. Is that the best use of the push/pull given these two pups or should I use it for something else? I don't want to change anything to the body of the guitar, and there is only the one volume knob and a 3-way switch now (neck/both/bridge). I am not fully committed yet, since the EVH is still on its way to me, so I can still change directions if I get some better suggestions. If you think this might turn out well, let me know that too, so I can sleep a little easier.
