Question about 59/custom hybrid

[blueman335]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

Hmmm....seems like it has the same design with differently wound coils, and they get a lot of very positive reviews. Anyone find the fread to be a good puo for what i'm looking for and for what i play, which is basically classic rock centered in 70's for the most part. I'm a singe channel amp with guitar volume as clean to OD kind of player. So i like a pretty balanced sound. The fred shows a mid bump but as long as it's not peaky it doesn't have to sound middy. Anyone use the fred and whats your take? Not into metal and really heavy stuff at all.

It has unbalanced coils, as does the '59/Custom, so both have some high-end edge from the uncancelled single coil sound coming thru, and the mids are reduced to some degree for the same reason. For me, any bridge HB with unbalanced coils needs a warm magnet like an UOA5 or A2. If you like a bright sound, or are using a lot of distortion, the stock mags are preferable.

 

[Demanic]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

You could always get crazy and stick a ceramic magnet in it.

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[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

Another simple option: replacing the filister screws under the wound strings with hex screws can sometimes tighten up the lows noticeably. Won't affect the Custom coil in this case, of course. But tightening up the 59 coil might be enough.

If you have any pickups sitting around with hex heads in 'em, this is easy & reversible and well worth trying.

 

[gregory]

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Another simple option: replacing the filister screws under the wound strings with hex screws can sometimes tighten up the lows noticeably.

Well...

cut the bottom of the screw polepieces level with the baseplate.

try cutting the screws under the wound strings.

Tried the screw thing and no joy.

 

[gregory]

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Anyway, as I said before: turn the pickup around so the higher-output Custom slug coil is nearest the bridge. Between that and short screws, the bass strings will be tightened, noticeably!!!

 

[dazco]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

Anyway, as I said before: turn the pickup around so the higher-output Custom slug coil is nearest the bridge. Between that and short screws, the bass strings will be tightened, noticeably!!!

That will hurt the middle/neck quack tho, which as it is now is awesome. I'm juast gonna live with it a while and see if i can b happy as is. I think theres a lot more good than bad and the bad isn't THAT bad really.

 

[gregory]

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You mean bridge+middle quack. I doubt it will make a large difference.

As Christopher mentioned in another thread, a partial split is going to give you the best tone which will translate in the best notch tone. If you rotate the pickup, just use a little bit more of the 59 coil to thicken it up.

 

[dazco]

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You mean bridge+middle quack. I doubt it will make a large difference.

As Christopher mentioned in another thread, a partial split is going to give you the best tone which will translate in the best notch tone. If you rotate the pickup, just use a little bit more of the 59 coil to thicken it up.

Yes, i did mean middle/bridge. But as i said, i'm just going to leave it for now and i;m getting together with old bandmates next saturday so i'll see how it fares in a band mix. If it excels there i'm leaving it.

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

It's the halfway point between the 59 and Custom 5. Have you used a C5 for any period of time?

My favorite C5 is using an Unoriented roughcast or roughcast A5 magnet. The best JB was a roughcast A5 JB, so try it with a C5.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

Well...

Not 100% sure, but I think hex screws may sound a bit different from shortened regular screws. More tightly focused magnetic field, I believe. And, no cutting required. Just trying to offer up a simpler option.

 

[SJ318]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

Hi -
If you just try this, very simple easy thing, your 59/Hybrid will tighten up, clean up better, "sparkle" way more,
just turn it 180 degrees so the way stronger bobbin The Slug bobbin is nearer the saddles, it will sound so much better,
and you will not need to fool around with clipping screws, heck you can screw the neck facing screws down to give your lower strings much more brightness and not ice pick or brash either.
I did that to both my stage guitars at an outdoor festival and my guitars have never, ever sounded better. A few weeks ago I had one regular Hybrid and one Hybrid set 180 degrees, the 180 sounded so much better I only used that guitar for the whole show, which was also at an outdoor festival.
So I changed the the other Hybrid so the screws were nearest the neck and now they both scream, and clean up to a nice clean low volume tone also. Jeff Beck to B.B. King.
Steve Buffington

 

[dazco]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

Ok ok ! I'll try it. But if the bridge/middle loses i'm turning it around because that sound is uber important to me.

Hi -
If you just try this, very simple easy thing, your 59/Hybrid will tighten up, clean up better, "sparkle" way more,
just turn it 180 degrees so the way stronger bobbin The Slug bobbin is nearer the saddles, it will sound so much better,
and you will not need to fool around with clipping screws, heck you can screw the neck facing screws down to give your lower strings much more brightness and not ice pick or brash either.
I did that to both my stage guitars at an outdoor festival and my guitars have never, ever sounded better. A few weeks ago I had one regular Hybrid and one Hybrid set 180 degrees, the 180 sounded so much better I only used that guitar for the whole show, which was also at an outdoor festival.
So I changed the the other Hybrid so the screws were nearest the neck and now they both scream, and clean up to a nice clean low volume tone also. Jeff Beck to B.B. King.
Steve Buffington

 

[gregory]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

Again: partial split.

Guys around here say use a 4k7. I'd try something bigger.

Get yourself a 50k linear taper pot and a multimeter. Use a fixed value once you've found the sweet spot.

 

[dazco]

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Ahhhh, damn. I've had this thing apart so many times with this i may just use 4.7k rather than having to get in it again after i turn it around. Hows it sound if i just keep using the slug coil ? I;d sure rather do then having to open it up 2 more thime and also find the right sweet spot on the split. Any use the slug coil as the active one when split with it near the bridge? Does it still quack much?

Again: partial split.

Guys around here say use a 4k7. I'd try something bigger.

Get yourself a 50k linear taper pot and a multimeter. Use a fixed value once you've found the sweet spot.

 

[gregory]

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What makes you think splitting to the slug coil won't quack when it's nearest the bridge?

 

[dazco]

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What makes you think splitting to the slug coil won't quack when it's nearest the bridge?

Nothing makes me thing it won't, but the fact that quack is 100% dependent on distance of the pickups and there is an optimal relationship distance wise. Moving the coil further will lessen it. The question i have is just how much. I know with other pickups i have tried that with it sometimes killed it. But output is a big part of it and it may actually be better then a coil wound far too little like the 59 coil probaby is.

 

[gregory]

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Quack is defintely not 100% dependent on distance. If it was then you'd be screwed either way since the bridge pickup on a Strat runs at an angle.

Anyway, do what you wish. I've led you to the water. It's up to you to do the drinking.

 

[dazco]

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Quack is defintely not 100% dependent on distance. If it was then you'd be screwed either way since the bridge pickup on a Strat runs at an angle.

Anyway, do what you wish. I've led you to the water. It's up to you to do the drinking.

It is in that you won't get it at all if the distance is too great. about 50 years of guitars and uncountable mods taught me a lot of things, and thats one of them. I have yet to hear a 2 pickup guitar of any kind with any pickups that gets quack in the middle. The bridge HB and middle will get it no matter which coild yu use, but the fact is the front doesn't quack as much. and if u r as anal about tone as i am it;s very obvious.

 

[gregory]

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Then you got the wrong guitar then.

Seriously man, I'm just trying to help. I'm not sure how much help we can provide if you know everything already.

 

[dazco]

Re: Question about 59/custom hybrid

Then you got the wrong guitar then.

Seriously man, I'm just trying to help. I'm not sure how much help we can provide if you know everything already.

Whatever. Anyways, sounded bad. Reverting back to the way it was tomorrow. Turned it around with slug closest to bridge, reversed phase on it and single coils, 10k trimmer set to 4.7k inline with the autosplit. Tried various settings on the trimmer. HB full on, HB split, and bridge/middle all considerably sounded worse. Can't figure out why anyone would like it like that but different strokes i guess...