Silo special pickup change...

[siloman]

I just went through this & changed the bridge pup only in my Sil Special. I went with a med gain pup (Dimarzio Norton) & it balances pretty well with the stock middle & neck singles. It sounds great when split too. There's a slight volume boost when switching to the bridge only, but nothing severe.

I spoke with a tech at Dimarzio & he suggested either the Norton or the Fred because of the 250k volume & tone pots that the SS comes with. He told me that the Tone Zone would sound muddy with the 250k pots because they would bleed off some of the high end & the Tone Zone is voiced with strong lows.

If you're going to put a set of high gain pickups in all 3 positions, you might want to consider changing the volume & tone pots as well.

This is mainly directed to 'wired' but anyone could answer... I'm wanted to do the same to my '05 Sil Special SSS. Want to put the Norton Humbucker in there and get a new pickguard. How difficult is it to wire. It's four conductor, so is there a diagram to install it. I looked at Dimarzio's site and only noticed installs involving 2 humbuckers... not 2 singles and a humbucker. If I missed a thread somewhere, please send me the link... appreciate it... this is my first post.