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Other Stuff => Guitars => Topic started by: Terry on April 20, 2009, 01:23:17 pm

Title: Getting Bright/bite off a 4.0 Pick up
Post by: Terry on April 20, 2009, 01:23:17 pm

Trying to ressurrect some early 60's Jap (the island of Hari Kari,if you must know) single coil pick ups.  Potted them.  Put nice alnico 5 on the rythem and alnico 3 on the bridge.  Put on some nice .047 caps.  250k volume pots and 500k tone pots.  but they are still too bright. 

Any tips...besides "trash em" ?

It's a sound...something different.

Title: Re: Getting Bright/bite off a 4.0 Pick up
Post by: jjasilli on April 20, 2009, 10:17:39 pm

Smaller pots and/or larger tone cap.

Title: Re: Getting Bright/bite off a 4.0 Pick up
Post by: G._Hoffman on April 21, 2009, 05:06:29 am

Quote from: jjasilli on April 20, 2009, 10:17:39 pm

Smaller pots and/or larger tone cap.

Yup.  Or tweak your amp.  Or use a really long cable.



Gabriel