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Pendulous
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Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Okay, so I am replacing some pickups in my guitar. The stock ones were screwed directly to the body... My Seymours do not fit the stock screws for mounting to the body, and the screws that came with them are not fit for screwing into wood. They did however come with mounting rings. So what shall I do? Take a drill to the guitar and use the mounting rings? Or somehow convince the pickups to accept the stock screws (is that possible)? Also I am just curious if you guys have any opinions as to whether there are sonic advantages to either mounting method.
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Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:02 pm |
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knope
The guy from the place with the thing. The one with the stuff.
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Direct mount humbuckers look more metal.... in a good way couldn't you just fill in the screw holes and find some screws that are good for wood yet still work with the duncans without modification to the pickups?? or you could just duct tape them for teh uber brootalz...
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Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:42 pm |
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Pendulous
Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:17 pm Posts: 7984 Location: Fung lung chung
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Ah it's too late. I put the mounting rings on. Gotta wire it up and then wrestle with the Floyd a bunch, then maybe a clip?
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Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:53 pm |
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Pendulous
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Waw waw... I prefer this look anywayz...
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Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:34 am |
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torgeot
Winston Wolf
Joined: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:10 am Posts: 7283 Location: in the valley of the shadow of death
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
bah. I would have just duct taped a sm57 directly to the body. THAT would be moar metal.
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Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:32 am |
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Pendulous
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
How curious... I made an update the my previous post, with schematics and comments about the guts of my guitar. It's gone now. -gives other mods a suspicious look-
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Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:48 pm |
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Devtron
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
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Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:14 pm |
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Simethicone
Joined: Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:00 pm Posts: 11625 Location: McMurdo Research Station
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
I prefer the look with the mounting rings. What pickups are those, if I may ask? IIRC that's a Distortion in the bridge?
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Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:46 pm |
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Simethicone
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
No. I think any difference would be minimal and not particularly advantageous one way or another. I don't think the impact is significant. It's not like a Strat where there's a big amount of wood taken out of the body and the pickups are just floating there in a big hollow space or a Tele where the bridge pickup is mounted in a bigass piece of metal.
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Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:52 pm |
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chris_d
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
I have always hated body-mounted pickups. I can be pretty picky about how the height of the things are adjusted, and body-mounted ones are just a pain in the balls to jigger and rejigger. Pickup rings are way moar better.
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Simethicone
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
I suspect the height has a lot more impact on the tone than how the thing's mounted.
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Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:00 pm |
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chris_d
Winston Wolf
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Zackly.
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Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:01 pm |
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Devtron
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Not only that, whether or not you mount the pickups to the body or not, it still comes down to the body wood itself. If that makes sense ...
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Pendulous
Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:17 pm Posts: 7984 Location: Fung lung chung
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Makes plenty of sense. It's Distortion bridge and neck. Aint messing around here...
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
I endorse the Distortion.
A high output humbucker. I support it. You know it's gotta be good.
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Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:38 am |
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Devtron
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Wait a second.
Wtf guitar is that? Your newer one?
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Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:28 pm |
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Pendulous
Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:17 pm Posts: 7984 Location: Fung lung chung
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Yus... a seven string I snagged on Craigslist. The idea here is that I can now play my chuggy slamz and djentz, but also still be able to play everything else on the same guitar... I am very much the type who their hands to be accustomed to one axe. To me it's like speaking one language well as opposed to speaking four languages with no depth... It has a coil tap by the way, and these pickups sound great split. So I really can play everything. (Not that I CAN play everything...)
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Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:22 pm |
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torgeot
Winston Wolf
Joined: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:10 am Posts: 7283 Location: in the valley of the shadow of death
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
See I was going to replace the Distortion in my Tele Deluxe, but now that guitar seems to be a bit of everything for me, the low output fake wide range in the neck and the high output distortion in the bridge.
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Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:24 pm |
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Pendulous
Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:17 pm Posts: 7984 Location: Fung lung chung
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
Try putting a coil split on that bridge pickup. It is quite nice.
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Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:36 pm |
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torgeot
Winston Wolf
Joined: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:10 am Posts: 7283 Location: in the valley of the shadow of death
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Re: Humbuckers: Direct mount VS Mounting ring
ooooo I like that idea. Very nice sir. *curtsies*
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