humbucker in the neck

[noisemaker]

i was plannig to put a SD seth lover in the neck but I cant afford another pickup so i was thinking.. is it alright to just put it with the noiseless bridge pickup witch is in the guitar now??

the seth lover is 7.2 K neck posish and the bridge 8.1 K
the noiseless bridge is 8.6K

just checkin so it wont sound like crap.. and also im plannig to put a nice bridge pickup later.. like SD 52 or something like that

[noisemaker]

nobody know this huh??

[noisemaker]

NOBODY out of 95 people??

[boris bubbanov]

I'd give it a try; sounds like a fairly good match on paper, but the Tele I have with a neck Seth in the neck and a single coil Tele bridge pup of about 8.0 k, the Seth totally overwhelms the single coil. Not a very good match; after a year I'm just not playing it.

[noisemaker]

okay.. your talkin about the middle posision then??
I dont use the middle one much actually I don't

But are you talkin about all humbuckers or just the seth?? maybe i should get a lighter pickup you think??

[noisemaker]

and with lighter I meen ofcourse smoother..
btw Im looking for that.. rockin, stones, humbuckerinateleneckpositionsounding tone :D:D

[robbysturgis]

yes, please explain how my match up the rating for the pickups and the pots?

[noisemaker]

i dont get the question?

[MulliganChebichev]

In my Tele I have a SD Seth Lover (neck) and a SD Lil 59 (bridge) which clocks in at 17k. IMO I like the warm creamy neck pickup vs the hot overwound bridge. When it comes to output they are more or less equally matched.

If you have one pickup overwhelming the other, you'll hear a substantial volume drop when you switch between the two pickups, something I try to avoid.

[Don Mare]

The Albert Collins Tele uses a 6.5k Humbucker -
that because they can be too muddy at 7.2k "in A Tele"

because the placement is a few inched deeper away from the saddles then the Gibsons they were designed for -
If you could get your hands on a humbucker thats Underwound to 6.5k without the Custom Shop Prices - you would be doing great - Fralin may be the one to ask?

[noisemaker]

Originally Posted by MulliganChebichev

In my Tele I have a SD Seth Lover (neck) and a SD Lil 59 (bridge) which clocks in at 17k. IMO I like the warm creamy neck pickup vs the hot overwound bridge. When it comes to output they are more or less equally matched.

If you have one pickup overwhelming the other, you'll hear a substantial volume drop when you switch between the two pickups, something I try to avoid.

the problem is that I dont want a 59 og rails in the bridge... so do you think i should get and smoother pickup if I dont want that overwhelming??

and also.. if I just add the humbucker.. will I always have to krank it up when I switch to the bridge??

[noisemaker]

Originally Posted by Don Mare

The Albert Collins Tele uses a 6.5k Humbucker -
that because they can be too muddy at 7.2k "in A Tele"

because the placement is a few inched deeper away from the saddles then the Gibsons they were designed for -
If you could get your hands on a humbucker thats Underwound to 6.5k without the Custom Shop Prices - you would be doing great - Fralin may be the one to ask?

thanks.. but if i get a 6.5 or less bucker would it still get that overwelming that MulliganChebichev was talkin about??
and maby a mini humbucker is the deal?
the antiquity is 6.7 k ??

[robbysturgis]

Originally Posted by noisemaker

i dont get the question?

I'm making a parts bass.

I've got a volume and tone pot, from an existing bass, but I'm thinking of putting in a different pickup.

How do you match the rating of the tone and volume to a different pickup.

What numbers match what other numbers? 250K this or 500K that?

Does it matter? If you connect them and it sounds good, is it fine?

[twangcaster1]

Originally Posted by Don Mare

The Albert Collins Tele uses a 6.5k Humbucker -
that because they can be too muddy at 7.2k "in A Tele"

because the placement is a few inched deeper away from the saddles then the Gibsons they were designed for -
If you could get your hands on a humbucker thats Underwound to 6.5k without the Custom Shop Prices - you would be doing great - Fralin may be the one to ask?

+1. Fralin will make you something marvelous.

[noisemaker]

Originally Posted by robbysturgis

I'm making a parts bass.

I've got a volume and tone pot, from an existing bass, but I'm thinking of putting in a different pickup.

How do you match the rating of the tone and volume to a different pickup.

What numbers match what other numbers? 250K this or 500K that?

Does it matter? If you connect them and it sounds good, is it fine?

i dont know... just start with these.. and if it sounds like crap get another pots.. maybe 500 volume and 250 tone.. im not really into these electronic stuffs.. I just pretend

[noisemaker]

Originally Posted by twangcaster1

+1. Fralin will make you something marvelous.

thought you had SD humbucker and bridge pickups??

what pickups??

[noisemaker]

hey MulliganChebichev, would the seth lover sound good with the GFS 10k owerwound bridge pickup??
im not looking for a lil 59 or hot rails.. but this i will accept
will it sound nice or like crap??

this thing : http://store.guitarfetish.com/hotlealovteb.html

[twangcaster1]

Originally Posted by noisemaker

thought you had SD humbucker and bridge pickups??

what pickups??

I have Seymour Duncans in one of my teles and I like it a lot, but the rest of my teles and strats are all loaded with Fralins and I like Fralins the best.

[MulliganChebichev]

Its hard to tell without playing the pickup in person, but for the price you can't go wrong with GFS.

[sixstring6]

I have a Seymor Duncan P90 in the neck position and I like it. It's beefy, maybe not what everyone wants in a Tele, but I like it.