Article About "direct Mounting" Your Pickups |
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Article About "direct Mounting" Your Pickups |
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Aug 13 2012, 10:34 PM |
Not to say that this is the "Best" approach, or that it's right for everyone/thing. Whew, disclaimer over! This is a really good article on direct mounting your pickups (straight in to the wood instead of using a mounting system/pick guard approach)
I'm partial to this method but that's just me. I'm sure some folks would find it doesn't work for them for whatever reason. As I read this I noticed the same tone improvements vs guitars I've played that were not direct mounted. I play a lot of fairly high gain/loads of picking stuff which works well with direct mounting. Both of my Ibanez as well as my Fretlight are direct mounted. http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/setups/why-direct-mount/ |
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Aug 14 2012, 12:45 AM |
I was just about to modify my Parker Nitefly, currently S-S-H, to H-H (thus replacing the neck and middle single coil, with just a neck Gibson 335 paf pickup) and I sent that article to my guitar guy to see what he thinks.
I mainly play funk, but I also have to get shreddy mc'freddy with EMULATOR. But I'm very interested to give it a try! Anything that gets my tone closer to the true resonance of the strings, and potentially adds sustain...and I LOVE it! Thanks Todd! Saw this on FB earlier today. -------------------- Check out my awesome Nintendo Cover-band, EMULATOR!! http://www.reverbnation.com/emulator Now.....go practice!! |
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Aug 14 2012, 02:26 AM |
I was just about to modify my Parker Nitefly, currently S-S-H, to H-H (thus replacing the neck and middle single coil, with just a neck Gibson 335 paf pickup) and I sent that article to my guitar guy to see what he thinks. I mainly play funk, but I also have to get shreddy mc'freddy with EMULATOR. But I'm very interested to give it a try! Anything that gets my tone closer to the true resonance of the strings, and potentially adds sustain...and I LOVE it! Thanks Todd! Saw this on FB earlier today. Thanks for checking it out Best of luck on your Parker Mods! The PAF is a great choice imho due to the Alnico magnets. Seymour duncan makes an updated version of the paf you might check out. http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/elec...9_model_sh1_an/ and they make a hot rodded version that looks spiff which uses Alnico 8 instead of Alnico 5 magnets. http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/elec...lternative_8_s/ |
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Aug 15 2012, 04:15 AM |
Yes, imo, this difference itn't a myth, I like direct mount too!
Also it looks really cool! This post has been edited by Max Sokolov: Aug 15 2012, 04:16 AM |
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