Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

[vinnie1971]

Re: Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

Hello all,
zanshin777 -
I feel obligated to tell you I fix that in every HH set I've ever had (my SG 61, L.Paul Custom right now for instance) by turning the whole neck pickup 180 degrees. NOT the magnet, it is fine when turned, no Greeny biz to fool with.
This puts the poles closer to the bridge. A little. But it all counts. I then lower the neck p'up a little more and raise the neck poles. This works every time for me. Also, personally, I keep the cover on the neck p'up and take off the bridge p'up cover.
This way I can get the bridge slugs a little closer to the strings (easy does it) and that makes it easy to lower the bridge poles so the whole uncovered p'up is closer to the strings without messing up a sweet spot, like I said, careful as you go.
I always make sure that the readings I get show the bridge hotter than the neck, just to be sure.
Try it. I bet you as a gentleman this will help. To make it easy for a quick trial, just leave the p'up in the ring, although it looks off, if you like it you can always re-set the p'up in the ring for permanent use. Takes 5 minutes, loosen strings, not much, undo 4 outer ring screws, turn it, screw in the ring, tighten the strings, and off you go for a quick try out.
Steve Buffington

One good thing about a lot of DiMarzio and DiMarzio clones with 12 adjustable poles.

One of mine I experimented like this, raising the poles nearest the bridge, wide range humbucker pole pattern, reverse wide range humbucker pole pattern and very surprising just how much it affects the tone.

I like to put an out of phase on a push pull so I can sound like peter green too [emoji6]


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[GuitarDoc]

Re: Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

not at 9. at 3 o'clock. Going clockwise treble frequencies increase so it gets brighter.

That's exactly what I said. You're turning the tone down to 3 (which is counterclockwise, which decreases the treble) then complaining that it "still sounds dark"!

 

[Archer250]

Re: Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

That's exactly what I said. You're turning the tone down to 3 (which is counterclockwise, which decreases the treble) then complaining that it "still sounds dark"!

I think he meant on his amp.

 

[jonsick]

Re: Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

I actually sold on my Slash set as the pickups sounded way too different to me. I liked the bridge pickup plenty. But in the end I settled on a set of PAF 36th anniversaries in my LP Standard. I really like the sound of those pickups. It can sound right nasty when I want it to and very clean when I don't. So far it's my favourite guitar to record rhythm guitar tracks.

I have a set of A2Ps in the LP Custom. I like these too, both sets of pickups do different things for me.

This was after going through the Slash set, the Whole Lotta Humbucker set and the standard DiMarzio PAF Pro pickups. I settled on the A2Ps in the LP Custom as I just really love how the neck pickup sounds. The bridge is OK, I may switch it for something else in the future. Eventually I'll order whatever I settle with with gold covers and swap them out.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

I think he meant on his amp.

Do they make amps work backwards in Thailand? Here in USA the amp tone knobs function the same as guitar tone knobs...clockwise increases treble (on the treble tone knob, obviously), counterclockwise decreases treble.

 

[Archer250]

Re: Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

Do they make amps work backwards in Thailand? Here in USA the amp tone knobs function the same as guitar tone knobs...clockwise increases treble (on the treble tone knob, obviously), counterclockwise decreases treble.

Yeah, but do you usually set your amp's treble to 10? I always keep it around noon or 1-half o'clock.

What I think OP meant was that he sets his amp's treble and mid knobs to 3 o'clock, aka, what Marshall arbitrarily marks as 8.

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[astrozombie]

Re: Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

I have the slash set installed in my les paul. I staggered the pole pieces on them loosely in relation to the string radius and set them both at 1/16 of an inch with the last fret pressed down. It sounds wonderful! Fat and beefy.

I don't really see how your experience could be any different unless something is wired wrong or there is something wrong with one of the pickups.

The neck pickup is VERY beefy but it does have a nice top end that gives it definition.

The bridge pickup is brighter still but keeps the "chunk" sound.

The difference is not so much in output, in reality it's more of a low-end to high-end sound kind of thing.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: Seymour Duncan Slash Set Brightness Difference Between Pickups

Was kinda hopin' Artie would chime in,he stumbled across a set a little while back...