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evilBOXevil · June 11th, 2009, 11:35 AM

Sorry to double post in the same thread, but I'm copying something down here that I had posted elsewhere:
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"I took an old SD hotrail that I'd had in an old strat, taped off the bottom (there are exposed solder points on the bottom of the hotrails), dremeled of the out mounting areas, and mounted it to an old brass bridge pickup underplate that I had laying around. I grounded off the brass plate completely separate from the PU.

It no longer sounds like a hotrail at all. It still has it's bass, but now it has the brightest top end I've ever heard from an SD pickup.
I'm no pickup expert, but I'm guessing that the bottom brass plate, and the tele bridgeplate have a lot to do with the change in sound from this pickup.

I do know that I love it's sound. It is loud as anything, and at least as bright a top end as the single it replaced. I t gives off no hum, but definitely has some microphonics in there.
I may offend some people here, but this thing sounds as close as I've ever heard to the old Barden bridge PU that I used to have (someone stole the guitar that it was in). And just like the Barden- with an overdrive and with the amp cranked up, I can yell into it and it comes out my amp ( just to give an idea of the microphonics).

I made this thing out of boredom and a box full of guitar parts, but I think I may have accidentally discovered my poor man's version of the Barden bridge PU."

I did find with the bardens that I had before that they were extremely microphonic, yet still had no hum. I think the microphonics have alot to do with the "touch sensitive" qualities that people talk about, and with the trebly bite that they seem to have. Some may say that microphonics are bad, but a bit of it suits my playing just fine.

June 11th, 2009, 11:35 AM	#59 (permalink)
evilBOXevil TDPRI Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Norman, OK Posts: 60	Sorry to double post in the same thread, but I'm copying something down here that I had posted elsewhere: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I took an old SD hotrail that I'd had in an old strat, taped off the bottom (there are exposed solder points on the bottom of the hotrails), dremeled of the out mounting areas, and mounted it to an old brass bridge pickup underplate that I had laying around. I grounded off the brass plate completely separate from the PU. It no longer sounds like a hotrail at all. It still has it's bass, but now it has the brightest top end I've ever heard from an SD pickup. I'm no pickup expert, but I'm guessing that the bottom brass plate, and the tele bridgeplate have a lot to do with the change in sound from this pickup. I do know that I love it's sound. It is loud as anything, and at least as bright a top end as the single it replaced. I t gives off no hum, but definitely has some microphonics in there. I may offend some people here, but this thing sounds as close as I've ever heard to the old Barden bridge PU that I used to have (someone stole the guitar that it was in). And just like the Barden- with an overdrive and with the amp cranked up, I can yell into it and it comes out my amp ( just to give an idea of the microphonics). I made this thing out of boredom and a box full of guitar parts, but I think I may have accidentally discovered my poor man's version of the Barden bridge PU." I did find with the bardens that I had before that they were extremely microphonic, yet still had no hum. I think the microphonics have alot to do with the "touch sensitive" qualities that people talk about, and with the trebly bite that they seem to have. Some may say that microphonics are bad, but a bit of it suits my playing just fine.