harddriver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:22 am
You mean to tell me PLX that throughout all your EVH tone questing you never tried a DUNCAN SH-5 Custom???????????????? I don't believe it?????
That can't be? Right after the PAF there was the CUSTOM?
You gotta have one in your pickup drawer somewhere??????????????????????????????
No, I did.
I took it apart along with my Duncan '59 and made the "Hybrid" thing.. still have it.
PLX wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:22 am
Nobody has tried that "Jalen Fair Warning" pickup ?
The one Jim Gaustad developed.. 15.5KΩ asymmetric wind..
I'm not gonna, I tend to not like JB's in my guitars. FW is a very specific Ed tone, kinda like his PAF tone, it really only works for ED and his setup and hands usually.
I didn't say JB or the FW pickup did I?
Even lll's clip using the JB with the ADA MP1 sounded like NUNO or damn close...again my point being I think you're gonna need something more than 8.5K. The SH-5 Custom is my recommendation to you. Between myself and lll I don't think we would steer you in the wrong direction.
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I took it apart along with my Duncan '59 and made the "Hybrid" thing.. still have it.
I think that may have been a mistake. I tried the 59 hybrid thing too but i did it on used pickups I bought cheap, I never parted out my Seymourizer II's.
I'd snag a used SH-5 instead of trying to rebuild one.
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harddriver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:29 am
I think that may have been a mistake. I tried the 59 hybrid thing too but i did it used pickup I bought cheap, I never parted out my Seymourizer II's.
I'd snag a used SH-5 instead of trying to rebuild one.
I used the Duncan '59 for many years, but wanted a higher output pickup. I tried the "Custom" and the "Custom Custom", meh.
Made the "Hybrid" and I liked it, but I like Jeff's version better.
harddriver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:29 am
I think that may have been a mistake. I tried the 59 hybrid thing too but i did it used pickup I bought cheap, I never parted out my Seymourizer II's.
I'd snag a used SH-5 instead of trying to rebuild one.
I used the Duncan '59 for many years, but wanted a higher output pickup. I tried the "Custom" and the "Custom Custom", meh.
Made the "Hybrid" and I liked it, but I like Jeff's version better.
The Hybrid measured 11.2KΩ
Try the Hybrid then...........I think it will fall short as well. The only other pickup that I think can get that tight Nuno tone is the Duncan Seymourizer II with the short rough cast ceramic magnet at 12.5K ohms. 13K seems to the magic output resistance amount for some reason. 12-14K.
FWIW I hated the Custom Custom same as you............ I felt it was muddy. The SH-5 custom I had was a late 80's one. I don't know what the new ones sound like.
Put it this way...as much as I love my Duncan 78 Model I would never expect that pickup to sound anywhere close to NUNO no matter what magnet was swapped into to it. 13K is the magic number.........................
Here's my SH-5 custom with an SD-1 into a totally stock 69 NOS build Marshall, with Classic tone and Metro 1998C output transformers, volume on 7 with a PPIMV THD hotplate set to -8 DB. I rest my case.............
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Harddriver is right (and I didn't realize this until more info came out with spilling of the beans ha ha), you're gonna want a hotter pickup (~13-14K so to speak) to get in the correct gain level territory for certain stuff you're doing.
I wrote a bunch of gobblety-gook here about the topic: