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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: jimihendrix55 on September 25, 2006, 09:18:49 PM

Title: Humbucker Ideas?
Post by: jimihendrix55 on September 25, 2006, 09:18:49 PM

So about a year ago, i got a nice custom semi-hollow built by Matt Artinger. I love to death, but I'm thinking of playing around with new pickups. Problem is, I know next to nothing about pickups, but I know what sound i want.

So the guitar is chambered semi hollow mahogony, ebony fingerboard, two low/medium output seymour duncan humbuckers (with coil taps).

Artinger put the lowish output humbuckers in because he thinks that they sound better than higer output pickups

A big part of my sound is this Jimmy Herring thick, smooth lead. (2 cranked tubescreamers froma 69' Super Reverb). I usuall get that with the bridge humbucker, but I wish it were a little hotter. My neckpickup sounds a lot louder, probably because it pickups up that big fat jazz neck sound. When I coil-tap that, I'd like it to be closer to a strat sound, i don't care as much to keep the fat jazz sound.

So here's the dilema. When both humbuckers are tapepd, I won't them both to be be able to have this strat-ish jangly sound. But, I want the humbucker in the bridge to be higher output. Is this possible? Can the bridge pickup be both think and heavy as a humbucker, and jangly and strat-ish like a single coil when its tapped?

Any suggestions on pickups to look into?

Other guitar players sounds i like:

Jimmy Herring (thick lead)
Jimmy Herring (clean)
Trey Anastasio (similar sort of thing)
Jeff Buckley (tele jangle - open chords)
(Steely Dan - kid Charlemenge and other recordings - the bluesy strat-tube amp sound)

Thanks

Title: Humbucker Ideas?
Post by: Hell Hound on September 25, 2006, 10:18:18 PM

It looks like someone listened to my advice on the HC forum hehe  :P

Title: Humbucker Ideas?
Post by: Tricalibur on September 26, 2006, 03:36:13 AM

just throwin this out, but maybe a Mississipi Queen neck? And then perhaps a VHII in the bridge or sumthin.

Title: Humbucker Ideas?
Post by: PhilKing on September 26, 2006, 12:06:07 PM

The VHII and Rebel Yell calibrated sets give me very Fender like tones on my PRS's when in the split positions.  I'm not sure how semi-hollow your guitar is, but the VHII set would work great I think.  I also have a Riff Raff/Stormy Monday combination in a chambered Les Paul and that works really well, but I don't have coil taps on the pickups so I can't tell you how they would sound, other than to say that all the BK pickups I have coil tap on give a very open sound which has that Fender tone (I put it down to the scatterwinding).

Title: Humbucker Ideas?
Post by: Ratrod on September 26, 2006, 01:35:17 PM

I'm thinking Stormy Monday set or, a bit hotter, Mules.