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Posted By: Evan Skopp
SDUGF Members, I'm proud to introduce the newest member of the Seymour Duncan artist family: Yngwie J. Malmsteen. Yngwie is spending the day with us in Santa Barbara and he was gracious enough to devote some time to you and let you get a chance to meet him.
Yngwie is not much of a typist, so I'll be doing the typing. If I need to interject my own words, I'll use my initials.
As stated earlier:
1) One question per forum member.
2) You must have been a registered forum member before this post to ask a question.
3) All forum rules regarding respectfulness will be strictly enforced.
So without further ado, Mr. Yngwie Malmsteen! |
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Posted By: BachToRock
NEW PICTURES & MORE DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ADDED 5/6/06... see post #128 for additional details...
OK... anyone who has tried it knows that the coolest pickup in the world is the ALNICO 59 /CUSTOM HYBRID... it combines the Clarity and Vintage Response of the 59 Model with the Punch, Drive and Body characteristic of the custom 5 and custom custom .
It is fabricated from 1 59 Model coil and 1 Custom coil with an Alnico magnet... it measures out about 11.25k and balances prefectly with typical vintage type neck humbuckers like the 59, Jazz, seth lover , pearly gates and Alnico pro II.
The problem when you overwind a PAF style 42 guage wire pickup(59 Model, Seth, EVH, etc.) is that it starts getting congested and garbled sounding above about 9k which happens to be right where the excellent custom shop EVH/78 Model is... if you wanted some more beef to your tone the next step was one of the 43 gauge Custom models (which all use the EXACT same coils) wound to just above 14k which is the best range for tone with that wire...
The comprimise is that you lose the articulation and dynamic response of the PAF and start to suffer from compression due to the signal travelling through a thinner and greater length of wire, but it is an EXCELLENT tone none the less!
With the Hybrid you get a Meritage of the 2 pickups... the BEST OF BOTH WORLDS... also, each coil has a different resonant peak... Read More |
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Posted By: Evan Skopp
Please welcome Hamer Guitars co-founder Jol Dantzig. Some of Jol's contributions to guitar history include:
• Design of the first 12-string bass
• Design of the first locking tuner
• Design of the first workable electric/acoustic hybrid guitar (DuoTone)
• Creation of the "Modern-Vintage" boutique guitar niche market
Jol's guitar designs have won six Editor's Pick awards in a row from Guitar Player magazine.
Jol has designed guitars for: John Lennon, George Harrison, Sting, Keith Richards, Gary Moore, Billy gibbons , Rick Nielsen, Keb Mo, KK Downing, Glenn Tipton, Lyle Workman, Mark Knopfler, Eric Johnson, Martin Barre, Johnny Ramone, Elliot Easton, Brad Gillis, Roy Buchannan, Jeff Watson, James Honeyman-Scott, and many, many more.
Jol's musical credits include recording with: Blue Guru, Wilson Pickett, Freddie Scott, Jon Tiven, Shaw-Blades, Jim Carroll, and Frank Black. His compositions have been featured in films and tele vision.
Check out Jol's Wikipedia page here. Click here to follow his blog. And click here to see a video interview.
At the end of Jol's appearance today, a randomly selected participant will win a cool prize. Jol will pay to pick up their guitar and bring it to his workshop where he'll do a full soup-to-nuts setup on it. He'll intonate it. Adjust the truss rod. Dress the frets. Clean and lubricate it. Jol and Seymour will consult on a set of pickups for the guitar, based on how the guitar plays and the winner's playing style. And Jol will drop the pickups in. It’ll play like a dream when he's done with it. And the lucky winner can follow the day-to-day progress on Jol's blog.
So there you have it. Any electric guitar or bass set-up personally by Jol Dantzig. Pickup |
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Posted By: Evan Skopp
With more than 40 years of experience, Rick Turner has built a solid reputation among musicians worldwide as a living legend.
About Rick
Rick with one of his Compass Rose Ukuleles
The former guitarist for the ’60s Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia and soundman for the Grateful Dead, Rick co-founded Alembic in 1970 and designed their classic Series 1 and Series 2 bass es. He founded Rick Turner Guitars in 1979 and joined Gibson in 1988 where he served as President of Gibson Labs West Coast R&D Division.
Rick left Gibson in 1992 and ran a guitar repair shop at Westwood Music in Los Angeles where he developed piezo pickups designs, working with jackson Browne, David Crosby and others. He later co-founded Highlander Musical Audio, manufacturer of piezo pickups for acoustic guitars. He continues to design and build guitars for many professional players such as Ry Cooder, David Lindley, David Crosby and Andy Summers. His Model 1 electric guitar was made famous by Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham. Rick is a regular columnist for Acoustic Guitar and a former columnist for Bass Player, Frets and Guitar Player magazines. He teaches courses in lutherie and has a popular class called “ Build a Mandolin in Four Days” which he teaches in California and Australia. He’s currently working on an autobiography. There's more information about Rick on his site.
Turner Model 1, Made Famous by Lindsey Buckingham
A Quartet of Rick's acoustic Instruments
But most important to us at Seymour Duncan, Rick is the “T” in D-TAR (duncan | turner... Read More
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Posted By: Stevo
This is a quick demo to try and display the frequency settings.
This is my ash tele with a custom shop bg1400 bridge pickup. I played through my plexi reissue, using a mass attenuator for the dirty parts. I used a shure 57 mic. There are no effects and there's not a backing track.
Time - Freq Setting
00:00 - none
00:23 - 1
00:50 - 2
01:22 - none
01:40 - 1
02:00 - 2
Pickup Booster Tones |
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Posted By: Stratman
Now that Gibson uses a printed circuit board with Bournes pots and fixed capacitors and wiring jacks.
Electronically, the 2008 has a BurstBucker Pro 1 at neck and a BurstBucker Pro 2 at the bridge and Bourne gold-plated pots visible through a smoked translucent control cover; also new is the Neutrik locking output jack tidily inset into the guitar's rim.
How many are willing to take that stuff out and replace all of it with Seymour Duncan pups, and old fashion pots and caps?
Come on, what do the rest of you think about Gibson's latest (2008) trend to use circuit boards that can not be changed? |
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Posted By: LesStrat
I have a great ibanez semi-hollow body guitar that has the perfect neck for me. Odie said it's because of the LP scale. IDK, I've never spent much time with LPs. It also has a narrow neck of medium thickness.
Is there a Gibby with similar dimensions? Other guitars?
I like the tone of LPs. Yet I've been spoiled by the weight of the parker Fly.
Talk to me about LP style axes with similar neck sizes to what I've described (Odie might even remember the dimensions). |
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Posted By: ronlennon
I finally made a decision on what pups to put in my Epi Les Paul Studio (2008 Chinese made).I bit the bullet and put Antiquities in. It really made a difference! Totally changed the guitar's tone and sound. Much more clarity and depth. It is hard to put into words, but when you hear it, you know it. I got a lot of opinions on the post here, Thanks, great place to help decide what you want. Ronlennon
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Posted By: RockStarNick
Once again, I was jamming on my Les Paul Standard with the C5 in it, thinking, hmm, sounds a *little* too scooped for me.
Got my screwdriver, raised up the bucker probably 1/8 of an inch, and IMMEDIATELY heard a difference.
More mids. Fatter treble, thicker bass . Sounds like a different pickup.
I'm kinda just blabbing here, but still, its amazing what an 1/8" adjustment can do for tone. |
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Posted By: BloodRose
I Just got my order of parts from Wymore today. Thanks for the quick turn around Bro!!
Anyhow, got me 4 alnico 8 mags.. So Im gonna Custom 8 my Explorer (from custom) , custom 8 my washburn MG104 and others. Maybe even my Baretta! I have a C8 in my Focus 6000 and one of my washburn Salas' already and I love them!!
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Posted By: Aceman
When it comes to PAF style humbuckers , there are a lot of choices. Let's see if we can get a fairly comprehensive list and some good tone descriptions. Then, we can reference the thread whenever someone is asking about them. So let's get a list and start adding the tone/details. Here are the ones I think of off the top:
Duncan
Antiquity
Seth
59
A2P
Pearly Gates
DiMarzio
PAF
36th Anniversary PAF
Air Classic
Gibson
57 Classic |
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Posted By: shaggyrun
I have seen that there are pick ups called trembuckers, that are meant to be used with a floyd rose and other tremelo systems. can a standard sh4 jb humbucker be used with a floyd rose or is it not suggested? I am only asking because i have it in a washburn idol 14 right now with a fixed bridge but I want to put it in my new raven which has a floyd rose. |
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