Pickup Experiment!

[Ribboz]

Alright, now here's the plan. Right now I have a warpig in the bridge, and only that. But I'm looking to expand on that and try to get a warmer tone out of it to simulate a neck pickup tone. Bleh blah.. I know most people would just say install of neck pup, but I love single hum guitars. And there's a certain sensitivity that bridge pickups have over neck pups, maybe thats just me though. Well heres the idea, Ive got a couple but the main focus is a mixture of capacitors and bleh like that to cut the high end in hopes of making a almost Holdsworth tone. Hopefully a very smooth warm bridge sound without having to put another pickup in. So thats might question, what do you all out there advise for an idea?

oh remember just think *Holdsworth tone* when thinking about this issue. :D

[MDV]

Roll back the tone control?

Its whacky and out there but its just might work!!

Failing that, raise the neckwards screw poles and then roll beck the tone control.

[Ribboz]

well these are all obvious changes, things that would affect everything els. I want to keep the aggressive lead. I was hoping to add something which would be used with a push/ pull knob.  Oh and rolling back the volume isn't enough for this. The warpig is a very high put pup and this only takes a little off the top.

Note: I must have forgot to mention, this is meant to have another tone. So the changes can not affect the current tone.

[blue]

how about a vari-tone, like on BB King's Gibson Lucille?  it has five tone settings through various different capacitors plus a bypass setting.  on my Gibson Blueshawk there's also a push/pull pot to bypass it, so the vari-tone can be left on a favourite setting and switched in and out without hunting for it.  can get a lot of different tones from one pickup setting.

there are a number of people on the web selling variations of it, if you feel like looking.

[gingataff]

I've gone for a Holdsworth type tone on my single humbucker guitar (a custom BKP made similar to a Holdsworth type). I used good quality 250k pots (as does Allan) and a good cap for the tone (a NOS Sprague Vitamin Q) and I roll the volume down to about 8 and the tone to 7 or 8 and this smooths things up and rolls off the highs without being muddy (thats why you need good pups, pots and caps).

I also have have a switch to bypass the volume and tone for a brighter, rockier tone.

You might want to start just by rolling off your volume and tone slightly and playing with your amp settings (little bass, lots of mids and not too much treble) and only change the pots to 250k if you want more treble rolled off (I really recommend the bypass switch if you do this).

[Ribboz]

Egh rolling back the volume is only a slite treble cut. Its not really what Im going for. But I will look into that vari tone. Thanks

oh and one thing too being that this is going through a soldano avenger having no compression makes what you might think as muddy more holdworthy when considering he would have more compression and me having the "mud" might be a good legato tone. :D

[brewboy73]

I have a calibrated set with a Warpig and Cold Sweat coming in. I also wanted to have some variation in the bridge position. I ended up going with a Ceramic Warpig and having it coil tapped. The neck Cold Sweat is going to be wired for push/pull parallel/series operation. If you Warpig was wired with 4 conductor wires, you could go with this setup with your current pup. Just a thought.

[Ribboz]

Yes, I was planing on just spliting it if I didnt find another option.