Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: AnnunakiMassacr on January 12, 2015, 08:53:11 PM
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Been talking to Tim about pickups for an Andy Timmons tone, and he suggested the Abraxas and 2x Cobras. Does anyone have any experience with 250k pots and the Abraxas?
It has confused me a lot as every time Ben has recommended an HSS combo, it's been 500k pots. With Tim it's always the 250k pots.
Looking to order this week :)
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Abraxas and 250k pots, that's going to be a dark tone. I'm afraid too dark, since the Abraxas has less chime and more mids than the Mule. With the Emerald it could work out fine.
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250k pots are a good choice if the H in HSS is a vintage type humbucker, probably also with a VHII, Black Dog or Emerald. With the Abraxas I would go with 500k unless you find the tone too bright with that. There are options to add a resistor to ground to make the single coils "see" a load close to 250k so that both the humbucker and the single coils have their "traditional" load.
Cheers Stephan
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I would assume you would need to pair a bright humbucker with a 250k pot. I have an Abraxas in my Gibson Les Paul Standard and it's light in the high areas. Might work with an Emerald or BD.
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on the classic strat wiring, the bridge pickup has no tone control anyway, which brightens things up.
i would probably try 300k pots in the first instance, i had good luck with that value on strats in the past. you can always tweak later.
on one guitar i did what dark blue murder suggests and used a 1M volume pot and added some parallel resistors for the single coils, that worked well and i think its a good suggestion.
be prepared to experiment a bit. you can do some very handy adjustments with pot values. you'll never make *major* tweaks, but if things are close to what you want they can make a useful difference.
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Cheers for that. I'll take the info to heart and have a good think before going for it :)
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A pot is what? £6
You can possibly afford to try one of each and see what works in your guitar.
It will really only be the very top end response that is affected and if your strat is bright you may welcome the smoothing out (or you may like it brighter - everyone's tastes vary)
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I'm unfortunately not very good with a soldering iron. Even tried to learn, but always muck something up. So I've given up destroying hardware. For me it's costly to keep getting my tech to change equipment. Kind of annoying as I now have to change out my Riff Raff bridge :/