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Topic: 710 on Sho-Bud...
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Steve Hinson
Member From: Hendersonville Tn USA
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posted 12 June 2005 06:24 AM
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If I change the stock pickup to a 710...and wire it to the switch...will it split like the stock one?I know it won't sound like the stock pickup,but it's nice to have two different sounds...[This message was edited by Steve Hinson on 12 June 2005 at 06:34 AM.] |
Steve Hinson
Member From: Hendersonville Tn USA
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posted 12 June 2005 06:36 AM
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What's a good humbucking pickup that has both those sounds?------------------
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Jon Light
Member From: Brooklyn, NY
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posted 12 June 2005 06:50 AM
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Steve--I'm on thin ice here but....all the steel guitar HB'er pups I've seen have only two leads. A lot of standard guitar pups have four. This enables you to wire the two coils to a switch and to basically run with both coils in HB mode or with one coil in single coil mode (although for some reason this is always referred to as 'very similar to single coil'--something I've never understood.)
I've never seen a steel guitar pickup with this coil splitting ability.
However, this is not the same as the coil tapping feature of your single coils that you seek, anyway.
Come to think of it, the GeorgeL 5-1 (is that what it's called?) may provide the versatility you are looking for although I've rarely read reviews that loved this pickup. |
Steve Hinson
Member From: Hendersonville Tn USA
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posted 12 June 2005 07:22 AM
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Jon,I was afraid of that...I need to look and see how many leads the stock pickup has...you're right about the 710-it only has two.I hate to lose the"Sho~Bud"sound,but the stock pickup is becoming slightly microphonic,and of couse it hums.My Emmons guitars all have humbucking pickups and I guess I'm spoiled.I'd like to use the LDG in the studio if I can get this figured out...thanks!------------------
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Jon Light
Member From: Brooklyn, NY
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posted 12 June 2005 07:36 AM
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well---one obvious option, provided you can live with single-coil hum----get your pickup to Jerry Wallace for a rewind. That will take care of the microphonics and he does do coil tap stuff so you can end up with something just like the original only better. Win/win. But I also am spoiled by humbuckers and would rather not hear any single coil hum.Here's another option----not too many people talk about this and I don't know if Bill Lawrence even offers this anymore---it's a unit called the IQ 1200. It plugs into the guitar output, has a single pot and an output jack. You use it with humbuckers and when you dial it down it reduces some of the high mid hump that can make a humbucker too fat, muddy. Bill used to call it a 'time machine' because in his opinion it made a humbucker sound like an older single coil pup. It is an inductance altering device. If you would like me to send you an email attachment (if I can find it) descibing it, let me know.
I use it as a permanent fixture on my guitar and mainly use it as a sort of tone control to dial out some harsh tones, sometimes (I often run it wide open, in other words, not used). It softens up your signal and to my ears gets into the sonic territory of the older underwound pickups of the ShoBuds that I hear on those oldest George Jones Buddy E & Jimmy Day sessions. [This message was edited by Jon Light on 12 June 2005 at 07:39 AM.] |
Steve Hinson
Member From: Hendersonville Tn USA
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posted 12 June 2005 09:29 AM
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What I'd really like to have is that mid'60's"shattering glass"sound!You know,thesound that came from those old Buds with white pickups in them...like"Apartment#9"or"The Bridge Washed Out"...
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Larry Robbins
Member From: Fort Edward, New York, USA
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posted 12 June 2005 10:39 AM
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Steve,
I had Jerry wallace rewind my old tired coil tap pickups on my 73 SHO~BUD and they sound great.They dont hum as bad as they used to, but of course they will some at higher volumes since they ARE single coils but you have to give and take a little here and there  . I think I had them wound to 11k and 17.5k for the splits and they kept that retro sound I love!! Good luck------------------
SHO~BUDS, Steelkings,
Fender guitars,
Hilton pedals, Preston
covers, and Taylor(Tut, that is)Resos. Still Country after all these years....
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Rex Wiseman
Member From: Cottontown, TN
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posted 13 June 2005 01:03 PM
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Hey Steve, I've got a fix for your problem. Sell me the LDG!!! See Ya |
mike nolan
Member From: Long Island City, NY USA
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posted 13 June 2005 11:30 PM
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I just had Jerry make a Truetone with a tap for my 73 LDG....12 K & 18 K.... it sounds great. There are a couple of clubs in NYC where the electricity is so dirty, that I have given up using single coils when I have gigs in those venues. I have a Lawerence LXR-16 on one of my guitars for those occasions. The LXR-16 is pretty close to a single coil, sound wise. |
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