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ThrowBackMan
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Hey folks.
I just bought this Charvel made in Japan not long ago. It's a Charvel Preditor, and has a hum in the bridge and a rail hun stacked in the neck at an angle. Well, I've had it about 6 weeks now playing every day or every other at least a little, and I've decided although I like the bridge pup a little, it's a tad too muddy on the big strings, and about perfect otherwise. It cleans up well, etc, but again, too flabby on the big E and A strings in my humble opinion especially with rhythm. So, I'm working on changing the strings today and I'm assuming because of the looks of the bridge hum that someone had replaced it, but I couldn't put my finger on what type of pup it is. So, I take it out and I can't believe my eyes, it's the original Charvel J90 I think it said? Anyway, it says Charvel on it, etc, and had a letter and 90. It's not a bad pup as I stated, but I want a little more output, or at least equal, and I want a little more high-end or mids on the top strings. I need the bass strings to be tighter I guess I should say. Then I don't really like the 5 way switch with all the options and the rail hum in the neck position. Although it sounds great, I don't like the looks, and I want a true single coil, but something that doesn't have hum.
So, I've narrowed it down to the following:
I have a Duncan Distortion, and I have a Dimarzio PAF Pro which I really like as well, but I also have a Duncan Active Metal humbucker but with the wire removed to give it more of a standard output.
I'm thinking I'd like to stick actives in it because of the all the reasons I like actives such as hearing every note, pushing the signal with loads / feet of cord, etc, etc,. No worries about being the ground if something goes bad in a gig with bad wiring in the building. I've been shocked bad before and I hate that!
However, that said, I also like passives such as the distortion class hum's from Duncan, and the Dimarzio Distortion, but especially the Super 3 Dimarzio bridge.
I want to be able to either run full blast in the bridge or just single coil in the neck for pretty clean stuff.. but I need the same volume. So, (sorry for the length of this post) I'm leaning toward either using the Duncan Active in the bridge or buy an EMG 85 which I really like and then get an EMG S or SA for the neck. I have loads of room for the battery, etc, I'd also of course get another switch and this time I'd get a 3 way or even 2 way if possible. What you guys and gals think? Any suggestions? This is my "Goto" guitar because it has a schaller floyd and just stays in tune forever and sounds great it seems and sustains like an LP for some reason. It's also light in weight, and just a joy to play with the big jumbo tall frets, etc,.
Any suggestions would be great. Are there other high quality actives out there besides Duncan and EMG?
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I just bought this Charvel made in Japan not long ago. It's a Charvel Preditor, and has a hum in the bridge and a rail hun stacked in the neck at an angle. Well, I've had it about 6 weeks now playing every day or every other at least a little, and I've decided although I like the bridge pup a little, it's a tad too muddy on the big strings, and about perfect otherwise. It cleans up well, etc, but again, too flabby on the big E and A strings in my humble opinion especially with rhythm. So, I'm working on changing the strings today and I'm assuming because of the looks of the bridge hum that someone had replaced it, but I couldn't put my finger on what type of pup it is. So, I take it out and I can't believe my eyes, it's the original Charvel J90 I think it said? Anyway, it says Charvel on it, etc, and had a letter and 90. It's not a bad pup as I stated, but I want a little more output, or at least equal, and I want a little more high-end or mids on the top strings. I need the bass strings to be tighter I guess I should say. Then I don't really like the 5 way switch with all the options and the rail hum in the neck position. Although it sounds great, I don't like the looks, and I want a true single coil, but something that doesn't have hum.
So, I've narrowed it down to the following:
I have a Duncan Distortion, and I have a Dimarzio PAF Pro which I really like as well, but I also have a Duncan Active Metal humbucker but with the wire removed to give it more of a standard output.
I'm thinking I'd like to stick actives in it because of the all the reasons I like actives such as hearing every note, pushing the signal with loads / feet of cord, etc, etc,. No worries about being the ground if something goes bad in a gig with bad wiring in the building. I've been shocked bad before and I hate that!
However, that said, I also like passives such as the distortion class hum's from Duncan, and the Dimarzio Distortion, but especially the Super 3 Dimarzio bridge.
I want to be able to either run full blast in the bridge or just single coil in the neck for pretty clean stuff.. but I need the same volume. So, (sorry for the length of this post) I'm leaning toward either using the Duncan Active in the bridge or buy an EMG 85 which I really like and then get an EMG S or SA for the neck. I have loads of room for the battery, etc, I'd also of course get another switch and this time I'd get a 3 way or even 2 way if possible. What you guys and gals think? Any suggestions? This is my "Goto" guitar because it has a schaller floyd and just stays in tune forever and sounds great it seems and sustains like an LP for some reason. It's also light in weight, and just a joy to play with the big jumbo tall frets, etc,.
Any suggestions would be great. Are there other high quality actives out there besides Duncan and EMG?
T
