Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Searcher on March 02, 2010, 03:39:20 PM
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In a moment of tired impulsivity I bought a Gibson Gary Moore guitar on feeBay last night thinking that I'd drop a couple of pickups into it that I already have. The pickups are a P90 and a Warpig. As soon as I'd committed to the thing I remembered that my pickups are Fender spaced. Doh! This might be a stupid question, but how much difference does that make to the sound? Thanks.
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Not much IMHO. It's highly likely that even with narrow string spacing (& bear in mind that the saddle slots on many modern Gibsons are cut quite wide), the top & bottom strings will still be over the inside edge of the pole pieces. All the strings will be well within the magnetic field.
It will be perfectly useable.
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Thanks, Antag! I guess if I notice any problems then I will still be able to work something out one way or another.
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tell us the results, i'm very curious about the gary moore and i'd choose exactly those pickups...
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Sure, man. I have been using these pickups in an SG-alike guitar for a while and been pretty happy with it. The neck joint has a problem, though, so I'm going to parts it out to other guitars.
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Well, I dropped the pickups into the guitar tonight and the spacing is perfect. In fact, it's better than it was in the "correctly" spaced guitar! Weird. Anyways, I've had a bit of a play and the intonation need some serious adjustment, plus I need some new pickup screws, because the neck pickup won't go high enough. Sounds pretty good so far, though. I'll post some clips when I have it worked out.
The only thing is that the bridge humbucker is really thin and wimpy sounding. It was cr@ppy with the burstbucker in it and I thought it was just a cr@ppy pickup, but the warpig is also really thin and weak. That's not right! I will start another thread about that, though, and also post a clip when it's working properly.
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but the warpig is also really thin and weak. That's not right!
no, it isn't. weak and thin are not terms i'd ever use with warpigs in the same sentence... are you sure about the wiring?
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but the warpig is also really thin and weak. That's not right!
no, it isn't. weak and thin are not terms i'd ever use with warpigs in the same sentence... are you sure about the wiring?
All sorted - see this thread:
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20487.0 (http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20487.0)
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but the warpig is also really thin and weak. That's not right!
no, it isn't. weak and thin are not terms i'd ever use with warpigs in the same sentence... are you sure about the wiring?
All sorted - see this thread:
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20487.0 (http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20487.0)
uh oh... i was away and didn't read all the new posts... thanks phil!