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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Stevepage on June 27, 2010, 11:48:11 AM

Title: Sinner in the neck?
Post by: Stevepage on June 27, 2010, 11:48:11 AM

I've got a humbucker in the bridge position of my Strat and I've been looking to get something to better match it in the neck. I see Kaz has a Sinner for sale and wondered if the Sinner would work ok in the neck position?

If I remember right, the Sinner Kaz has is rated at 20k. Is that going to be complete over kill? would it sound too bright with 500k pots too?

Title: Re: Sinner in the neck?
Post by: gwEm on June 27, 2010, 12:41:43 PM

it might be a bit too much (the 20k bridge version) i think. 500k pots are recommended for sinners though

Title: Re: Sinner in the neck?
Post by: HTH AMPS on June 27, 2010, 06:03:13 PM

I'd imagine that a 20k Sinner in the neck would be REALLY pokey, probably like having a Warpig bridge in the neck - thick and overdrives anything in sight.  Probably not the best for cleans.

Title: Re: Sinner in the neck?
Post by: Prawnik on June 28, 2010, 08:40:09 AM

I assume a 500K volume pot?

'Cause most Strats don't have a tone pot in the bridge.

Title: Re: Sinner in the neck?
Post by: Prawnik on June 30, 2010, 12:50:12 PM

More along that line:

Does anyone know whether they make a 250K/500K pot on one shaft, so I can hook up the Sinner to the 500K pot and the other single coils to the 250K pot?

Or is there a way to wire up a 250K pot so that it behaves like a 500K pot, but only for the bridge pickup?

Title: Re: Sinner in the neck?
Post by: DemosKratia on June 30, 2010, 07:54:15 PM

i may just be being an idiot, but i think for that you could wire them up to the 250k pot, and put a 250k resistor between the pickup you want a higher resitance value for and the pot... though im not particuarly educated on these things :P