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here's a trick I picked up off of Seymour Duncan's site. Alot of guys don't know about it, and alot of guys disagree with it. But you might want to give it a spin.
This is for LP style humbucker equipped, never tested it on a Fender.
If your bridge pickup is ice picking you to death, you should:
- try lowering it, adjusting the pole pieces
- could opt for 1 or both pots at 250K
here's the other trick:
take a very small cap (.0033, .0047 - yes that's 2 zeros, not one), attach it to the pickup hot lead where it connects to the pot. Ground the other end of the cap to the back of the pot.
The setup on my LP Custom (very bright guitar to begin with)
- Voodoo 59 pickups, both at 7.8 K, Peter Green magnet flip on neck
- 500K pots on neck, 1 500 and 1 250 on bridge
- vintage .015 bumblebee on neck
- vintage Sangamo .033 on bridge, vintage Sangamo .0047 grounded cap.
With my bridge pickup right open (on 10), I get not only a good treble that cuts through the mix with no icepicking, but also the vintage hollow (wah) tone.
This tone is not for everybody, but it's a really cheap and easy trick to cut the icepick out of a Les Paul.
This is for LP style humbucker equipped, never tested it on a Fender.
If your bridge pickup is ice picking you to death, you should:
- try lowering it, adjusting the pole pieces
- could opt for 1 or both pots at 250K
here's the other trick:
take a very small cap (.0033, .0047 - yes that's 2 zeros, not one), attach it to the pickup hot lead where it connects to the pot. Ground the other end of the cap to the back of the pot.
The setup on my LP Custom (very bright guitar to begin with)
- Voodoo 59 pickups, both at 7.8 K, Peter Green magnet flip on neck
- 500K pots on neck, 1 500 and 1 250 on bridge
- vintage .015 bumblebee on neck
- vintage Sangamo .033 on bridge, vintage Sangamo .0047 grounded cap.
With my bridge pickup right open (on 10), I get not only a good treble that cuts through the mix with no icepicking, but also the vintage hollow (wah) tone.
This tone is not for everybody, but it's a really cheap and easy trick to cut the icepick out of a Les Paul.