Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: boelletrold on September 22, 2011, 08:01:44 PM

Title: Pickup swapping! :D
Post by: boelletrold on September 22, 2011, 08:01:44 PM

So, I have 2 guitars, one with passive pickups (BC Rich), and one with active (Jackson).
I now want active EMG's in my passive guitar, and passive Bareknuckles in my active guitar, because I like to be a difficult asshole.
How hard will this be? Something I can do by myself?

If I've understood correctly:
I remove the EMG's and pots from my Jackson.
I remove the passive PU's from my BC Rich.
I put the EMG's into my BC Rich, along with the pots.
I put the Bareknuckles into my Jackson, along with some new pots.

Do I need to do anything besides this?
Do I need to shield the pickups more than they already are?
Also, my BC Rich has a $%&#ton of knobs (reverse phase, split coils, a "voicing" kinda knob, and two tone knobs) and I've only got the pots that came along with the EMG's in my Jackson (2 volume, 2 tone). Would I have to replace ALL the electronic switches in my BC Rich? Is it even possible to coil split EMG's?

Title: Re: Pickup swapping! :D
Post by: Transcend on September 22, 2011, 08:10:48 PM

Its just a simple case of swapping everything over.

And no standard emgs cant be coil split just the 89 i believe.

and you only have to put as many pots in as you require/want

If you dont want to wire up the extra pots just pop them in unwired to fill the holes

Title: Re: Pickup swapping! :D
Post by: boelletrold on September 22, 2011, 08:55:43 PM

I'd really like to be able to use the "voicing" knob. It's round (like a volume knob) but it only has 5 positions, and it sounds like it controls the attack or presence or something? Would I be able to use this?

Title: Re: Pickup swapping! :D
Post by: Transcend on September 22, 2011, 09:00:08 PM

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Title: Re: Pickup swapping! :D
Post by: boelletrold on September 22, 2011, 09:48:20 PM

Ya know what? I really like to be able to have a shiteload of knobs, so I think I'll just sell my EMG's and put in some Bareknuckles instead :P

TWO BKP guitars? Has he gone MAD?! Nope. Just Chuck Testa.

Title: Re: Pickup swapping! :D
Post by: WezV on September 23, 2011, 09:14:02 AM

just thought i would mention - you cant split normal emgs, but they have (relatively) recently introduced the dual mode series which have 3 coils in the pickup so it can either be used as a normal humbucker or a stacked humbucker for single coil ish sounds but still hum cancelling

seems like an overly complex solution to the problem to me :?

Title: Re: Pickup swapping! :D
Post by: boelletrold on September 24, 2011, 01:40:59 PM

Thank's for the help guys, but I already found a buyer for my EMG's, so from here on out, it's BKP's all the way!