Pickup Swap....first impressions...

[OrangeChannel]

Ok, so I got a set of EVH/Axis pups...and I put them in my MD JP6...

Looks a lil weird considering but damn does it sound different...a little more organic, less hifi....which is cool...however, the pups themselves have a lower profile than the JP pups, nothing a little shimming won't fix...little foam and we're all set...woo!

 

[OrangeChannel]

Foam in, heights right...woo. These sound awesome...

 

[Jimi D]

I can see this... personally, I love the sound of Axis humbuckers! Tweaking the volume and tone controls to work different tones out of them has become one of my favorite pass-times while noodling away in the basement... I haven't spent much time on the Pet, so I can't compare, but Raz could tell you that over the past two weeks I've been selling off a whack of Duncans, Dimarzios and Furys I've had stuck away in a drawer for about three or four years now, because before I adopted the Axis I was an inveterate pickup tweaker - I actually learned to solder and bought a soldering iron just so I could swap out the electronics on my guitars myself, because I was doing it all the time! I did it on my Jems (though I liked the Breed pickups quite a bit) and on my Strats and Les Pauls, and I was sorely tempted to do it to my PRS (but I just sold the darn thing instead). And I've been waiting for four years to start feeling like maybe I should drop this or that into one of my Axes just to see what it would be like, but then I'd pick up the Axis in question and fool around with it for a while and realize, "I don't want to take these stock pickups out!", and that would be that.

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

Pics of the zebras, pics of the zebras!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[OrangeChannel]

I small ish with the middle selection, half volume and buzz prolly a cold joint, but I may order up a new switch because that one in particular was a little wonky...
item of interest: there is a sticker under the bridge pup showing a build date of 9/21/00

 

[koogie2k]

Nice. I hope to hear it at the end of the month. Let me know if you are gonna be around.

 

[jimmyp]

Ok, so I got a set of EVH/Axis pups...and I put them in my MD JP6...

Looks a lil weird considering but damn does it sound different...a little more organic, less hifi....which is cool...however, the pups themselves have a lower profile than the JP pups, nothing a little shimming won't fix...little foam and we're all set...woo!

I assume the pickups you used were from an Axis - as far as I know the wiring of the EVH pickups means you can't split the buckers - I have moaned about this in the past as it limits the EVH in terms of styles you can play on it. I would love to hear a Petrucci with those pickups- I reckon the neck pickup would sound amazing

 

[jongitarz]

If they are Axis p/ups, they are now made so you can split the coils. Like on the Super Sport. Same p/ups

 

[jimmyp]

If they are Axis p/ups, they are now made so you can split the coils. Like on the Super Sport. Same p/ups

That's what I thought - I wish they had made em like that on the EVH - it would still be my main guitar if I could improve the clean sounds

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I have never got on with any kind of single coil myself. In fact I had the 5 way taken out of my ASS and a regular 3 way put in its place. Those coil splitting selections just sounded really weedy and thin to me, an I kept knocking the switch into them by accident.

 

[jimmyp]

I have never got on with any kind of single coil myself. In fact I had the 5 way taken out of my ASS and a regular 3 way put in its place. Those coil splitting selections just sounded really weedy and thin to me, an I kept knocking the switch into them by accident.

I think its depends on the type of music you do - EVH obviously did not feel the need to split his buckers - I wish the wiring had been in place to do that though - I could have just fitted a push pull pot on the volume to give me more sounds. I know that a lot of people like to keep their guitars as simple as possible, especially for gigging when just about anything can and does go wrong - I'm somewhere in the middle, I want a simple guitar that will give me every sound. Maybe I should check out a PRS 513 and sell a kidney...

 

[OrangeChannel]

If they are Axis p/ups, they are now made so you can split the coils. Like on the Super Sport. Same p/ups

Sent them to DiMarzio to be refurbished, they have 4 conductor wire...Jon, if i were to utilize a pushpull with the Pet switch how would I do that?

 

[Warg Master]

That's awsome.... I'd do it if they weren't zebras.

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

Sent them to DiMarzio to be refurbished, they have 4 conductor wire...Jon, if i were to utilize a pushpull with the Pet switch how would I do that?

OC, I've got an extra tone push/pull pot - if you want it, its yours

 

[OrangeChannel]

word! That would be sweet Pete! I just need to get thee new switch in...Talked to Scott today, it's on its way...

 

[citizendruidian]

axis pups

Can any one tell me where I can find the axis humbuckers and thier specs?

 

[OrangeChannel]

You can find them in an Axis....or my MD JP6.... hehehe.

They're not sold aftermarket...the closest that you'll find production-wise is a Tone Zone and a Norton for the neck...