Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

[ronnieanand]

Hi,

I have a Parker Fly Deluxe. I am not happy with the stock pickups. I am looking for Allan Holdsworth / Tony MacAlpine types smooth fusion tone. What pickups do you suggest.
Thanks.

 

[daemon barbeque]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

Wow that's a tough one.You need an vell articulated tone.Jazz Bridge and Jazz neck would be cool i think.Smooth ,but well articulated for faster runns!

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

Hey Ronnie how you doing...Nice to see you out here. Dont you have the JB Jazz in that guitar ? Give the Jazz bridge a shot. And how is CHUBB?

 

[Binnerscot]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

The Deluxe would be stock Dimarzios. Older ones were based on a Tone Zone and Air Norton, the newer ones were designed just for the Fly.

Dimarzio will make most of their models in a format that will fit the Fly for list price, I would suggest starting with their pups since a Duncan retro fit involves some work.

Only the Fly Mojo model comes with Duncans.

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

The Deluxe would be stock Dimarzios. Older ones were based on a Tone Zone and Air Norton, the newer ones were designed just for the Fly.

Dimarzio will make most of there models in a format that will fit the Fly for list price, I would suggest starting with their pups since a Duncan retro fit involves some work.

Only the Fly Mojos come with Duncans.

Well I think I know which the guitar that Ronnie is talking about. Infact he had replaced the original stock pups with the JB JAZZ..pair around 2 years back. I dont know if he Ronnie is talking abouth the same guitar or a diff Parker. He has also fitted the Duncan JB JAZZ pair succesfully in that guitar, modifying the base plate a bit.


Edit: Ronnie Did you buy yourself another PARKER ? I just checked your old posts in IGT to duble cheak myself and found out you had bought a Parker P42 in which you had installed the JB JAZZ. So did you buy a new Parker deluxe, and wanna install Duncans in it?

 

[theodie]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

I tell ya what Ronnie, I replaced a set of pickups in a customers Nitefly with Duncans and it sounded a million times better. Those factory Dimarzio's sounded like a blanket was thrown the tone.

I am not that familiar with the artists you mentioned so, I am not going to be much help on this one.

 

[Binnerscot]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

Well I think I know which the guitar that Ronnie is talking about. Infact he had replaced the original stock pups with the JB JAZZ..pair around 2 years back. I dont know if he Ronnie is talking abouth the same guitar or a diff Parker. He has also fitted the Duncan JB JAZZ pair succesfully in that guitar, modifying the base plate a bit.


Edit: Ronnie Did you buy yourself another PARKER ? I just checked your old posts in IGT to duble cheak myself and found out you had bought a Parker P42 in which you had installed the JB JAZZ. So did you buy a new Parker deluxe, and wanna install Duncans in it?

Pup mounting for the Night Fly and P series are very different from a Deluxe. The P series and bolt-on Fly guitars use a standard mounting (maybe a base plate trim if needed). The Deluxe, Classic, Mojo, Supreme, Artist, etc. do not use legs on the pups, and they mount using screws that go through the coils in different locations depending on the model - Mojo (Duncan) and others (Dimarzio).

To fit Duncans in a Fly that came with Dimarzios requires cutting the legs off of a standard sized Duncan, trimming the baseplate to a perfect radius around the coil, and I think only one of the screw holes will line up for mounting. Its a tight fit.

I have had a handful of US Parkers (still have a Classic and a Mojo). It is not your typical DIY guitar 101.

If it is an older Deluxe with the original wiring (ribbons, circuit boards, looks like NASA designed it, etc), the tone is a no-load control - you get a bit more zing with the tone when wide open (more than your typical no-load in another guitar). The new Deluxe has standard pots (regular tone) and point-to-point wiring. Pickups mount the same in both.

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

Pup mounting for the Night Fly and P series are very different from a Deluxe. The P series and bolt-on Fly guitars use a standard mounting (maybe a base plate trim if needed). The Deluxe, Classic, Mojo, Supreme, Artist, etc. do not use legs on the pups, and they mount using screws that go through the coils in different locations depending on the model - Mojo (Duncan) and others (Dimarzio).

To fit Duncans in a Fly that came with Dimarzios requires cutting the legs off of a standard sized Duncan, trimming the baseplate to a perfect radius around the coil, and I think only one of the screw holes will line up for mounting. Its a tight fit.

I have had a handful of US Parkers (still have a Classic and a Mojo). It is not your typical DIY guitar 101.

If it is an older Deluxe with the original wiring (ribbons, circuit boards, looks like NASA designed it, etc), the tone is a no-load control - you get a bit more zing with the tone when wide open (more than your typical no-load in another guitar). The new Deluxe has standard pots (regular tone) and point-to-point wiring. Pickups mount the same in both.

Oh ok.. I thought they were all the same.... I was aware that it was a diff ball game of instaling pups in Parkers...but I thought it was just a little baseplate modification Thanks for the Info. though.

 

[ronnieanand]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

Hi Jocelyn....

You are correct on my P42, which has JB and Jazz on them....

This is my new Parker...Its a Parker Fly Deluxe....

Its kinda true that play a parker and you dont want anything else...

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Which Pickups for Parker Fly Deluxe

Hey congrats on the Deluxe.... You have got me gasing for a Parker now.