The Guitar Thread • Page 87

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Got a question that I wonder if any of you guys can help me with. I'm pondering on converting my first "proper" guitar to being a single pickup. It's an old MIM strat, which I've done loads of upgrades to. It's got a really nice Creamery Wide Range in the bridge and then the stock crap in the other positions.

I'm pondering converting to the single pickup, with a tone and volume (maybe with a no load tone, if I can get one). I know a bunch of you have modded guitars and there's a load of single pickup lovers in here. Does anyone have a go-to circuit for a single tone, single volume in this context?

If I do this, I'll buy all new pots/wiring/caps, since it's still using the original MIM harness.

 

My wife and family members pitched in and got me this amazing Fender Vintera 60's Jazzmaster for my birthday last week! I'm in love with it. It goes great with my Jaguar and Mustang. Please excuse my unwashed hair in the pic.

 

congrats, looks sick!

 

Thanks!

 

What an amazing gift that is. I think my brother has that exact guitar. They absolutely scream to be played. Enjoy!

 

Little bit of before and after.

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I got one of my dream amps today! a hiwatt custom 20 tube 1x10

 

Saw this thread and I thought i'd post some of my stuff ESP LTD ec 1000 and this Squier jaguar bass. I've been itching to play music again after taking a break.

 

I have a type.

 

That The Chariot shrine is excellent.

 

Thanks! I wish I had space for my One Wing flag.

 

What DiMarzio pickup is on the tele bridge?

 

It’s a Chopper T that the previous owner put in.

 

How do you find it? I've pondered putting something like that in my Am Std, as I think I'd play it more with a HB in the bridge, but I'm also under the impression that those single shaped HBs don't tend to sound like the real thing and given that I'd presumably lose the signature Tele bridge sound, I'm not sure whether that halfway house is worth it.

 

As far as humbucker goes, it's fine. It's pretty clear when played clean, but still pretty chunky when dirty. The Fast Track T is supposed to be more tele-like, I think?
I really prefer single coil clean sounds, so I'm probably gonna end up swapping in the original pickup, if not going for one of the Lollar sets.

 

I have a Tele that I’m thinking about putting a Chopper T in the bridge. I’ve seen some demos where people wire it to be run in either series or parallel. In parallel it sounds like a standard Tele pickup, just slightly beefier, almost like a quasi-P90. If you wire it to a 500k volume pot too that should allow that much more high end to come thru and sound more like a single coil.

 

That's an interesting idea. I presume the normal way to do that is to stick the series/parallel on either a push pull or use a 4 way selector instead of the classic 3?

 

I’d recommend a couple of things: keep the classic 3-way switch, get a stacked 250k/500k volume pot for your neck pickup and the Chopper T, respectively, then get a push-pull 250k tone pot which you can use to access the series/parallel tones from the Chopper T.

 

Black-on-black with maple necks is vibes for days.

 

My complete pedal collection! I picked up a few new ones in the last few weeks (the blue sky, mood, pog, synth9 and memory man) as well as an actual board now that I’m playing shows regularly. Going to try to put together a board tonight! The sitar pedal and digital delay won’t be on it, but I’m going to try my best to squeeze everything else