baimun
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When I got my Musicman Silhouette, it had already been modified to accept 3 single coils instead of the Hum/Single/Hum that it shipped from the factory with.
It had plenty of pop and sparkle unplugged, but even taking out the Dimarzio vintage noiseless and putting in Seymour Duncan Alnico II's didn't make it come across the way I thought it should.
I determined this to be partially a neck pickup that wasn't properly positioned (closer to a middle position than true neck postion), and the 250K pots eating up too much treble.
I routed the pickguard out to accept humbuckers in the neck and bridge again....
I routed an extra black plastic panel to reinforce the pickguard and cover the middle hole.
Ooooohhhh yeaaahhh........ Now it squeals like a little hot rot piggie should!!!
I only had Seymour Duncan JB's laying around, but I put a trem spaced humbucker in the bridge and a regular one in the neck. The poles line up perfectly (the custom made pickguard was a bit off on the treble poles with just singles).
Besides the 500K master volume and tone, I also wired it with a combination of 5 way super switch and a phase/bypass switch for the inner neck coil that allows:
1. Bridge Humbucker
2. Outer tapped coils
3. Both Humbuckers
4. Inner tapped coils
5. Neck Humbucker
The mini switch can give out of phase sounds in positions 3, 4, and 5, and when in bypass mode, it allows single coil only in 2 and 5.
I was loving the neck, and feel of the body... now the tones are matching up and I'm totally in love with this guitar!!!
It had plenty of pop and sparkle unplugged, but even taking out the Dimarzio vintage noiseless and putting in Seymour Duncan Alnico II's didn't make it come across the way I thought it should.
I determined this to be partially a neck pickup that wasn't properly positioned (closer to a middle position than true neck postion), and the 250K pots eating up too much treble.
I routed the pickguard out to accept humbuckers in the neck and bridge again....
I routed an extra black plastic panel to reinforce the pickguard and cover the middle hole.
Ooooohhhh yeaaahhh........ Now it squeals like a little hot rot piggie should!!!
I only had Seymour Duncan JB's laying around, but I put a trem spaced humbucker in the bridge and a regular one in the neck. The poles line up perfectly (the custom made pickguard was a bit off on the treble poles with just singles).
Besides the 500K master volume and tone, I also wired it with a combination of 5 way super switch and a phase/bypass switch for the inner neck coil that allows:
1. Bridge Humbucker
2. Outer tapped coils
3. Both Humbuckers
4. Inner tapped coils
5. Neck Humbucker
The mini switch can give out of phase sounds in positions 3, 4, and 5, and when in bypass mode, it allows single coil only in 2 and 5.
I was loving the neck, and feel of the body... now the tones are matching up and I'm totally in love with this guitar!!!
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