macky7tyseven
Inspired
A Seymour Duncan Hotrail works/sounds like a humbucker in the bridge position. I replaced the original pup on my Strat with one, because the original sounded somewhat thin and icey.
did some reading on the SD SSL5 and general consensus is its a good pickup but very hot and compromises that position 2 quack. tradeoff which i suppose is what I need to sort out. Am i tryin to force a fender strat to sound like humbucker guitar? there's the rub. other possibility is the Texas Special in the bridge which is supposedly half the output of an SSL5. I sense i'm tumbling down another rabbit hole.
Having a high dc resistance is not always the only consideration. Texas special is actually nothing like SRV's pickups it was a guesstimate. Texas specials sound pretty bad with OD IMO. You could just go for a mid output with a less strong magnet . The alnico 2 or 3 single coils are a lot warmer sounding than 5.did some reading on the SD SSL5 and general consensus is its a good pickup but very hot and compromises that position 2 quack. tradeoff which i suppose is what I need to sort out. Am i tryin to force a fender strat to sound like humbucker guitar? there's the rub. other possibility is the Texas Special in the bridge which is supposedly half the output of an SSL5. I sense i'm tumbling down another rabbit hole.
Personal taste. I don't like 100nf at all. For a single tone control I prefer something around 10nf. If I had a dedicated tone control for a certain pickup like on a strat, I would probably go with the Lindy Fralin fat cap value (1.5nf). It works nicely for fattening up a single coil in the bridge position. Useless for woman tone or jazz though.Why change the value when it has a control? The best tone control on a strat for me is a phone book cap and they are 0.1mfd instead of the modern 0.033mfd. The reason I like this cap is it seems to not just kill the treble.
If your looking for good quality noiseless pups, you should at least explore the "Kinman" site.On my recently acquired Fender Strat Performer, which I'm really enjoying, is currently loaded with their Yosemite pickups. I'm happy with the middle and neck pickups but finding I'm not using the bridge much at all. I've alwasy been a humbucker player so maybe just finding the bridge anemic relative to humbuckers but really dig @2112 Suhr ML pickups in the strat he often plays in his youtube vids. I'm considering just the ML bridge in my Strat. Wondering what other Strat guys out there think? I'm looking for the times i want some more dirt/girth from a single coil bridge without totally compromising those classic Strat tones. When I think of those classic Straty like tones, im not usually thinking of the bridge anyhow; mostly the 2/4 positions so dirtier bridge would still be handy w/o going to humbucker style.
I don't like this value with any other cap . Have you tried the phone book?Personal taste. I don't like 100nf at all. For a single tone control I prefer something around 10nf. If I had a dedicated tone control for a certain pickup like on a strat, I would probably go with the Lindy Fralin fat cap value (1.5nf). It works nicely for fattening up a single coil in the bridge position. Useless for woman tone or jazz though.
Actually I haven't. I tend to go for polyester film caps. I have tried that value before though. What's so different about the paper book caps?I don't like this value with any other cap . Have you tried the phone book?