Pickups for maple body Strat

[akozols]

HI,

I have a Peavey Patriot that has a solid maple body. It was orginally set up for a single humbuker, but I converted it to have 3 single coils. I installed 3 Simarzio Virtual Vintage pickups with a DP409 in the bridge position. The bridge postition sounds very bright. I'm not sure if the brightness is from the maple body. Is maple just too bright for a Strat setup, or should I just get a pickup that's beefy?

thanks,

Al

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Pickups for maple body Strat

HI,

I have a Peavey Patriot that has a solid maple body. It was orginally set up for a single humbuker, but I converted it to have 3 single coils. I installed 3 Simarzio Virtual Vintage pickups with a DP409 in the bridge position. The bridge postition sounds very bright. I'm not sure if the brightness is from the maple body. Is maple just too bright for a Strat setup, or should I just get a pickup that's beefy?

thanks,

Al

The brightness is coming from the maple...get a beefy bridge pup!

 

[Indie P Bass]

Re: Pickups for maple body Strat

I've got a maple bodied strat (epi fat) that's got a 59'b in it, it does have a lot of treble attack to it, but, when I dial in the correct tone on the amp, it screams. You should check on a 59'b. There's no going wrong with one of those.

 

[Neeradj]

Re: Pickups for maple body Strat

It's a bright guitar, but it'll sound beautiful with a good pair of pick ups, my dream guitar is made of maple and all maple except for an ebony fingerboard. I think a Hot Rails will get you a lot more beef in the bridge, but considering your previous pick up choice it might not exactly be what your looking for

 

[akozols]

Re: Pickups for maple body Strat

Thanks for the replies. I did do something today that made a difference. I had a Dimarzio 1 meg tone control, so I installed it. It's the first tone control that really works. It's tapered so that 75% of it's travel only takes a little high end. You can really dial in how much high end you want to take away. When I switch to the bridge pickup, I just pull the tone ctl back about 1/4 turn and it sounds good.


al

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Pickups for maple body Strat

A 1 meg pot is 1000000 ohms. A standard 250K pot is 250000 ohms. I wouldn't be surprised if when you turn your 1 meg pot down 3/4 of the way you are back to the stock value of 250K! However, when your pot is set to "10" your guitar should be even brighter than a normal guitar...maybe to bright?

As for pickups, if your guitar is very bright acoustically I would consider alnico 2 pickups like the APS-1, APS-2 or the Antiquity Texas Hots.

Lew