DreX
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Re: Ultimate Pickup Mods List
It's true, there's not as much you can do with a single coil, I was just noting that the assumption.
For a thicker sound, add a base plate under the coil. Callaham makes plates sized for the purpose, and it can really help a shrill bridge.
Another mod for shrill bridges, is a hard-wired attenuation. Connect a cap with a value between .02 and .001 and a 500k trim pot in series across the pickup's + and - leads, and adjust the trim pot to control the attenuation. IME, a cap of .003 uF will allow more mids to be retained while taking off the high-pitched edge.
On cheaper style plastic bobbins with bar magnets underneath, you can break off the ceramic bar, remove the slugs with some force (I pushed them out with a smaller screw driver) and replace them with AlNiCo pole pieces. Here's a recent thread about it https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?277285-Single-coil-modding
It's true, there's not as much you can do with a single coil, I was just noting that the assumption.
For a thicker sound, add a base plate under the coil. Callaham makes plates sized for the purpose, and it can really help a shrill bridge.
Another mod for shrill bridges, is a hard-wired attenuation. Connect a cap with a value between .02 and .001 and a 500k trim pot in series across the pickup's + and - leads, and adjust the trim pot to control the attenuation. IME, a cap of .003 uF will allow more mids to be retained while taking off the high-pitched edge.
On cheaper style plastic bobbins with bar magnets underneath, you can break off the ceramic bar, remove the slugs with some force (I pushed them out with a smaller screw driver) and replace them with AlNiCo pole pieces. Here's a recent thread about it https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?277285-Single-coil-modding
