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Installing
and Set-up's
 Strat
style or 3 pickup configuration:
I have a method for adjusting
strat pickups which seems work really well. I learned it from
Richie Blackmore's Guitar tech many years ago, when I had to help
him set up guitars he was buying for some Deep Purple Tour.
He told me" this is how Hendrix set up his strats" but Hendrix's
tech told me " Jimi set his own guitars up"he did not remember,.
On Strats it seems that the the Low"E" side of the pickups has a
lot to do with the tone. The height of the bass side of the
pickups changes the character of the sound . The height of the
treble side of the pickups changes the attack.
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-Install the pickup's
-Solder the connections
-Raise the bridge pickup to" 1/8 from the high "E" string
-Raise the Bridge pickup side to" 1/4 from the low "E" string
-Place the selector switch in the 2nd position (or between the
bridge and middle position)
-Raise the middle pickup to" 3/16 from the high "E" string
-Raise the middle pickup to" 1/4 from the low "E" string
-Now adjust the low "E" side of the middle pickup while playing a
little, try to get the most
"quack" and phase in the sound. You may have to lower and raise
both the bridge pickup and the middle pickup(on the bass side)
until you can get a tone that is really " quacky".
-Now place the position switch in the 4th position between the
middle and the neck position
-Raise the high "E" side to about
3/16 from the string ,
-Now adjust the low "E" side while
you are playing, try to get the most out of phase
"Quacky " sound you can get. You may have
to adjust and tweak the treble side and the bass side's
of the other pickups.
-When you have the 2 and 4 position sounding the way you want ,
you should have the guitar voiced so that all the positions have a
distinctive sound.
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Tele's
Tele set ups:
-Install pickups
-Solder connections (this is for a wiring pattern that uses both
pickups in the middle position , not for early Tele wiring)
-Raise the bridge pickup to 3/16 on the high "E" side
-Raise the bridge pickup to 1/4 on the low "E" side
-Place the selector switch in the middle position
-Adjust the neck pickup height until you can a distinct blend of
the pickups
-Now check the sound on all three positions and they should be 3
distinct sounds with character. |
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