PU Help Mixing Fender and P Gates PU

[Johnny T]

Hello Folks:

I have a question for all you fine folks out there in PU-land. My question is:

My friend has asked me to place a Pearly Gates PU in the bridge position of a Yamaha SE 211 (Floyd Bridge). This guitar has a single coil at the neck (Yammy) and a hum (Yammy) at the bridge. It also has a push-pull pot for splitting the humbucker. At the same time, he found a fender single coil bridge off an SRV Strat that he wants installed at the neck position on the Yammy as well. The guitar is a little old, and I see that I will need to replace the switch and possibly the push-pull.

My question is regarding the sound and mixing of a Fender bridge PU at the neck with a pearly gates bridge with splitting capabilites. Will it sound good or like crap?

Any input would be well apprciated.

JT

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: PU Help Mixing Fender and P Gates PU

Hello and welcome to the forum.

IMO, the Pearly Gates is a bright-sounding pickup. You are proposing to install it on a guitar with a large mass of metal for its bridge. I fear that the resultant sound from the HB will be unpleasantly edgy. Coil-tapped, it will slice yer head clean off.

The Fender Texas Special, positioned nearest the neck, should be juicy.

 

[El CHupacabra]

Re: PU Help Mixing Fender and P Gates PU

Unless you want to get Albert Collins "icepickin" tone, I'd not recommend ol Pearly for that job. I love mine to bits, but that's gonna be too much.
If you like more aggresive neck tones, a Tex-Mex I think would sound good. The Tex-mex neck is higher output than the bridge!

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: PU Help Mixing Fender and P Gates PU

Here's an old thread Gearjonser started about the use of the Pearly Gates in Fender Strats like the Lone Star and Big Apple. https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=19570 Evan chimes in with post#9 and straightens everything out.

I don't think there would be aproblem using the regular Pearly gates alnico 2 humbucker. When Fender decided to use it,they decided to make it even brighter by replacing the alnico 2 magnet with an alnico 5 and they also added a few hundred extra turns of wire,thus creating the PGPlus.

 

[uOpt]

Re: PU Help Mixing Fender and P Gates PU

I think the PG will work fine in most Floyd Guitars. I got a feeling that Floyd guitars that end up in trouble usually do so from the neck, not the bridge. It doesn't sound like a guitar with a super-thin neck.

You probably have to reverse the phase on the Fender pickup.

 

[super rad stuff]

Re: PU Help Mixing Fender and P Gates PU

it should be fine, especially if you use 250k pots for volume/tone.

 

[ericmeyer4]

Re: PU Help Mixing Fender and P Gates PU

Here's an old thread Gearjonser started about the use of the Pearly Gates in Fender Strats like the Lone Star and Big Apple. https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=19570 Evan chimes in with post#9 and straightens everything out.

I don't think there would be aproblem using the regular Pearly gates alnico 2 humbucker. When Fender decided to use it,they decided to make it even brighter by replacing the alnico 2 magnet with an alnico 5 and they also added a few hundred extra turns of wire,thus creating the PGPlus.

I'm glad someone mentioned this. :bigthumb: