Author Topic: Fender '72 custom pickup setup!!!!!!!! NEED HELP!!!!! (Read 2082 times)

skynyrd66 · « **on:** March 31, 2007, 12:35:54 PM »

I want bareknuckles for my new fender 72 custom re-issue!, its an alder body with a single coil at the bridge and a "wide range" humbucker at the neck. I want somthin vintage but hot!!!! a want the pickups to scream!! but do the pickups have to have fender spacing or will standard bare knuckles fit? plz reply!!!!!!! need advice!

PhilKing · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2007, 01:10:39 PM »

Brown Sugar or Boss bridge. VHII neck will give you a hotter sound, Stormy Monday will balance better with bridge and still give a great classic neck tone.

WezV · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2007, 02:53:01 PM »

BKP's tele p-ups will fit just fine in the bridge but you might want to check the dimensions on the neck pickup, on the original fenders those 'wide range' pickups where larger than the average humbucker. Not sure what size they are now on the re-issues.

If it is bigger you could always get Tim to rewind it - or get a new scratchplate with a normal sized humbucker hole in it!

HTH AMPS · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2007, 03:20:45 PM »

those wide-range humbuckers are larger than normal and have different mounting holes too. you'd need a new scratchplate to use normal humbuckers usless you fancy a big gap around the neck humbucker.

those humbuckers are VERY muddy sounding - put a 1M volume pot in there and it will brighten it up ALOT.

I bought an original 70s Wide Range humbucker for my 72 Custom RI and it was much better than the RI but still required a 1M pot - this is apparently what Fender used in the original guitar loaded with WR pickups.

imo it's worth trying to find an original WR pickup, they have their own kind of sound going on - more interesting than a typical neck humbucker with some of that single coil twang.

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