Yay, new pickups wired in at last!

Karl Hungus

Just finished giving my Tokai an upgrade there. Seymound Duncan JB & 59, in bridge and neck respectively, which I got for christmas, and just finally bothered to install them tonight.

I'm very pleased with myself, because it all went swimingly. This is my second time installing pickups, and it was very straight forward, no mistakes, or troubles anywhere along the line, unlike my first go at the old wiring pickups game, which resulted in me getting fed up and losing my patience when I realised I didn't have it all ground properly and I ran out of wire, so I said to myself **** it, and lumped the damned guitar there for a week untill I bothered to come back to it. That said, it wasn't the easiest first job, since I was uninstalling EMGs, so I had to re-wire everything from an active setup to a passive one. Aswell as that I thought it nifty to install a pull/push coil tap.

Anyway, this time, easy peasy, quick in and out. I think it took me about 3 or 4 hours, from unwiring the original pickups, removing the strings, replacing the pickups, shaving the plastic off the wires, wiring everything in nice and new, and then having her back up to tune, with a new set of strings to boot. So I hope that's not too long to take with some pickups.

So, lets get on to how it sounds. At this time, it's a little too late to crank up the good old cube much, but from what I can tell at this volume the sound is, in a work, sweet. Really clear, defined tone, pretty much what I was expecting from Seymour Duncan, and very much the sound I was looking for, for the Tokai, which I've kept tuned to E. I'll be playing a lot more with it tomorrow, so more than likely, I'll have more to tell then.

As of yet, I don't think I'm swayed from DiMarzios, as I still think the Air Norton is the sweetest neck pickup in existance, and the sheer bite of the Evolution is perfection for a serious Metal sound, but I the Duncans are certainly great at what they do, and provide something different to the DiMarzios, so I wouldn't really say one is better than the other.

Both beat the hell out of EMGs though. :v:

Doctor J

The JB and the 59 are like apple pie and custard, bangers and mash, cider and fightin', they just go together so well. Good stuff man, I do love the oul JB

Oeneus

Heh. I've just fitted my guitars with new pickups also.
I've installed a Kent Armstrong Motherbucker into the bridge of my Gibson and a P90 in the neck.

And for my Washburn CS780, I've put in a pair of Mighty Mite motherbuckers which I got from http://www.axesrus.com for about £50. Considering the price these pickups are freakin' awesome! Beats the stock pickups x10.

ferdi

we demand sound files

feylya

damned flies sound ew... :v:

Yes, clips!

Oeneus

Unable to record at the moment. You'll have to wait a couple of weeks

Ancient1

Oeneus wrote:

Motherbucker

You'd want them to be awesome with a name like that!

Doctor J

[OFF TOPIC]Speaking of Tokai... now I'm GASsing [/OFF TOPIC]

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

[OFF TOPIC]Speaking of Tokai... now I'm GASsing [/OFF TOPIC]

Sweet! You absolutely MUST buy that, Doc!!! :eek:

Doctor J

They're now making reissues for £299, sod this original 80's nonsense. The FV48 :v:

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

They're now making reissues for £299, sod this original 80's nonsense. The FV48 :v:

Right you are so, go for it.

Oh, and no sound clips just yet I'm afraid.

Karl Hungus

Man, these really are nice pickups. Just getting used to the 59 now for some leads, and it really is sweet altogether.

Quattroste

Karl, I was thinking of the JB and 59 as replacements in my Eggle Berlin. It came with coil tapped Kent Armstrongs. Is it possible to have the SD's coil tapped too?

Doctor J

Yep, be careful though, some 59's come as two conductor but you can get them as four conductor. Every JB I've seen has been four conductor.

Quattroste

I take it I need the four conductor?

Doctor J

Yup. With two conductor you just get the hot from the first coil and the return from the second, the two coils are wired together in series in the pickup assembly so you can't run the coils independantly. The four conductor just means the hot and return wire to each coil are sent back to your control cavity so you can be flexible with how you run the two coils.

Quattroste

Thank you Doctor J.

Doctor J

No problem

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

Yep, be careful though, some 59's come as two conductor but you can get them as four conductor. Every JB I've seen has been four conductor.

Actually my one was a single conductor! Was kinda suprised at first, then looked it up on the SD website just to make sure this was the right pickup. I don't mind though, it sounds great, and I'm not tapping it, so there's no bother there.

Pyr0

So any sound clips yet ?

Karl Hungus

No.

Doctor J

Karl Hungus wrote:

Actually my one was a single conductor! Was kinda suprised at first, then looked it up on the SD website just to make sure this was the right pickup. I don't mind though, it sounds great, and I'm not tapping it, so there's no bother there.

Well there's a first

I suppose, since I haven't actually seen it yet, I can still say that... technically of course :v:

Karl Hungus

Huh? There's a first what?

Speaking of pickups though, did you hear DiMarzio are bringing out 7 string versions of the X2N and D-Sonic in 2006? Exciting tbh.

Doctor J

The first time I had heard of a two conductor JB

Karl Hungus

No no, the JB is four conducter, the 59 is single conducter. Should've been clearer about that.