shawn7oh
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Hi Y'all. I have an LP Studio 2014, it has this pretty useful "fat tap" wiring hooked up to the Volume knob push pulls, which sort of grounds one of the slugs on each pickup, in a pseudo single-coil or "split" mode.
Anyhoo, the stock 490T wasn't doing it for me, it may have been a bad wind, who knows, too brittle even sort of nasty, I didn't like it clean or distorted.
So I got ahold of an SH-10, the Full Shred. For some reason, it never sank into my head that this is a medium output pickup. When I used the traditional conversion of SD to Gibson, the push pull had no functionality, and didn't really sound tapped. (I was actually thinking of gutting the f'ng thing and just wiring it with new components in a traditional fashion with split, lol.)
Then I thought, ok, duh, try switching the wiring around, tried different things, then finally reversed the North slug wires, and it worked perfectly, the South wires have to remain in normal SD to Gibson conversion config for this to work.
I'm amazed at what a great pup the Full Shred is, both clean and distorted.
I love the SH-6 Duncan Distortion, but sometimes it's a little hot even when lowered and rolled back, for my clean tastes, and the Full Shred fills the bill. The tone is a hell of a lot like my old LP Deluxe mini hb, but better output.
So anyway, there you have it. If you are dealing with a Gibson Fat Tap circuit, and want to use a Duncan, reverse the wiring as follows on the North slug only:
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The SD N Start Black is connected to the Gibson harness N Finish White,
and the SD N Finish White to the Gibson N Start Red
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The South Coil is to remain standard:
SD S Start Green to Gibson S Start Black, and SD S Finish Red to Gibson S Finish Green...
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The SD SH-10 matched perfectly with the Gibson 490R, so the Full Shred may have even been a Neck pup, not sure. The person I got it from measured it at about 13 output, which would be SH-10 bridge, but I didn't see it, and the output is only a tiny bit more than the Gibson 490R.
Anyway any tricks or tips related to the SH-10 use/config/setup, and or fat tap circuit would be appreciated.
Anyhoo, the stock 490T wasn't doing it for me, it may have been a bad wind, who knows, too brittle even sort of nasty, I didn't like it clean or distorted.
So I got ahold of an SH-10, the Full Shred. For some reason, it never sank into my head that this is a medium output pickup. When I used the traditional conversion of SD to Gibson, the push pull had no functionality, and didn't really sound tapped. (I was actually thinking of gutting the f'ng thing and just wiring it with new components in a traditional fashion with split, lol.)
Then I thought, ok, duh, try switching the wiring around, tried different things, then finally reversed the North slug wires, and it worked perfectly, the South wires have to remain in normal SD to Gibson conversion config for this to work.
I'm amazed at what a great pup the Full Shred is, both clean and distorted.
I love the SH-6 Duncan Distortion, but sometimes it's a little hot even when lowered and rolled back, for my clean tastes, and the Full Shred fills the bill. The tone is a hell of a lot like my old LP Deluxe mini hb, but better output.
So anyway, there you have it. If you are dealing with a Gibson Fat Tap circuit, and want to use a Duncan, reverse the wiring as follows on the North slug only:
----------
The SD N Start Black is connected to the Gibson harness N Finish White,
and the SD N Finish White to the Gibson N Start Red
----------
The South Coil is to remain standard:
SD S Start Green to Gibson S Start Black, and SD S Finish Red to Gibson S Finish Green...
----------
The SD SH-10 matched perfectly with the Gibson 490R, so the Full Shred may have even been a Neck pup, not sure. The person I got it from measured it at about 13 output, which would be SH-10 bridge, but I didn't see it, and the output is only a tiny bit more than the Gibson 490R.
Anyway any tricks or tips related to the SH-10 use/config/setup, and or fat tap circuit would be appreciated.
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