Thin brittle output
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freefrog
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Re: Thin brittle output
I hear you and I appreciate the calm tone of your post.
There’s certainly a huge mutual misunderstanding above.
I’ve never said nor suggested that the problem mentioned by the OP was NOT a wiring issue. Nor that a “capacitance issue” was involved.
Therefore, my answers weren’t supposed to “compete” with those from other members.
When I’ve started a post by saying “time to jump on my hobby horse”, I was connoting my answer as being a subjective parenthesis, a kind of “footnote” or “side note”, meant to COMPLETE the whole picture with a different perspective.
I was saying to myself: “Well, if EVER it’s not or not only a wiring issue, at least DR Ron has another idea to dig… and/or some other members might find this idea interesting too; who knows?”
The topic was apparently giving me an occasion to share a slice of my past experience with a “thin sounding” PG.
It wasn’t a good idea, since my contribution has been felt as inappropriate. That’s life: who can claim to be “the right man in the right place” in all situations? I should probably avoid dispersion between various forums, especially when I’m busy and tired.
I still think that disagreement doesn’t exclude mutual respect : depreciative words and vilifying connotations questioning the capabilities of a well intentioned member are really not necessary in such cases IMHO. Unless the real goal is to engage some “kung fu fighting”, of course. ;-))
I had initially the idea to react to this sentence and maybe I should have started here. I’ve bought once a second hand two conductors Duncan pickup, whose coil wires had been swapped for some unknown reason (maybe by the previous owner, I don’t know)… I had to reverse the leads of one coil to obtain a normal series operation (as if I was twisting together red and black OR green and white). This reversed wiring couldn’t be detected with DCR measurements : only an inductance meter would make it obvious… FWIW.
I hear you and I appreciate the calm tone of your post.
There’s certainly a huge mutual misunderstanding above.
I’ve never said nor suggested that the problem mentioned by the OP was NOT a wiring issue. Nor that a “capacitance issue” was involved.
Therefore, my answers weren’t supposed to “compete” with those from other members.
When I’ve started a post by saying “time to jump on my hobby horse”, I was connoting my answer as being a subjective parenthesis, a kind of “footnote” or “side note”, meant to COMPLETE the whole picture with a different perspective.
I was saying to myself: “Well, if EVER it’s not or not only a wiring issue, at least DR Ron has another idea to dig… and/or some other members might find this idea interesting too; who knows?”
The topic was apparently giving me an occasion to share a slice of my past experience with a “thin sounding” PG.
It wasn’t a good idea, since my contribution has been felt as inappropriate. That’s life: who can claim to be “the right man in the right place” in all situations? I should probably avoid dispersion between various forums, especially when I’m busy and tired.
I still think that disagreement doesn’t exclude mutual respect : depreciative words and vilifying connotations questioning the capabilities of a well intentioned member are really not necessary in such cases IMHO. Unless the real goal is to engage some “kung fu fighting”, of course. ;-))
I had initially the idea to react to this sentence and maybe I should have started here. I’ve bought once a second hand two conductors Duncan pickup, whose coil wires had been swapped for some unknown reason (maybe by the previous owner, I don’t know)… I had to reverse the leads of one coil to obtain a normal series operation (as if I was twisting together red and black OR green and white). This reversed wiring couldn’t be detected with DCR measurements : only an inductance meter would make it obvious… FWIW.
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Re: Thin brittle output
Well I thank you all for your posts.
I gave up and pulled the pickups and replaced them with hot wound single coils from Rose...and a Clapton mid boost and a TBX. It has awesome tone now with no wiring issues.
I bought a Epiphone Les Paul for my Humbucker Fetish.
So I now have two slightly used SD Humbuckers for sale
Thanks again for your help everybody.
I did get a new cable and tried it out before ripping out all the wiring...it definitely made a difference...just not enough to return it to a SSS Strat imitation.
Well I thank you all for your posts.
I gave up and pulled the pickups and replaced them with hot wound single coils from Rose...and a Clapton mid boost and a TBX. It has awesome tone now with no wiring issues.
I bought a Epiphone Les Paul for my Humbucker Fetish.
So I now have two slightly used SD Humbuckers for sale
Thanks again for your help everybody.
I did get a new cable and tried it out before ripping out all the wiring...it definitely made a difference...just not enough to return it to a SSS Strat imitation.
