The Whatever Thread .. For Gear!!

[Dandolin]

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thanks for bein' my fact checkin' cuz

[Blackened Soul]

You'd think since ERBs have been pretty a known thing since mid-late-90s that there would be more pickup options by now.. Finding 7 string bass pickup options is not very easy.. there are 2 brands you can get readily and then? I'm sending inquiries to Curtis Novak [high doubts he'd even want to..] and Aero to see.. fall back seems to be Bartolini but with them you NEED a pre because their pickups are so not very loud..

[qersty]

You'd think since ERBs have been pretty a known thing since mid-late-90s that there would be more pickup options by now.. Finding 7 string bass pickup options is not very easy.. there are 2 brands you can get readily and then? I'm sending inquiries to Curtis Novak [high doubts he'd even want to..] and Aero to see.. fall back seems to be Bartolini but with them you NEED a pre because their pickups are so not very loud..

wouldnt an active be preferable for more than 5 strings? I could live only playing passives but for that frequency range I feel it would beless than ideal. You could always get a nice pre like a john east, it just sounds good not släbbity släbb am is Fieldy

Thinking of stratting up caue I want a guitar with a vibrato for sane people. I wanna go for this design but I dont know if it has any benefits to have a neck hummie other than purely for aesthetics

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Also important: the jack plate gotta be a black square like the old stratoblasters cause it looks sick

[The Eristic]

You'd think since ERBs have been pretty a known thing since mid-late-90s that there would be more pickup options by now.. Finding 7 string bass pickup options is not very easy.. there are 2 brands you can get readily and then? I'm sending inquiries to Curtis Novak [high doubts he'd even want to..] and Aero to see.. fall back seems to be Bartolini but with them you NEED a pre because their pickups are so not very loud..

I've had "traditional" Barts in two different 7s (plus a bunch of 4s and 5s), they're great pickups if you know you like the Bart thing, if you don't you can never completely get away from, though using non-Bart preamps with them does help. The B-Axis otoh are kind of halfway between the classic Bart vibe and a great passive, but dunno if they're offering them in ERB.

My current 7 has a passive Kent Armstrong MM-style that sounds killer, they'll do pretty much anything custom order afaIk. Carey Nordstrand has also built them for his own 7s, but I don't know if he'll do it for aftermarket. Villex and Delano will make them, too, I think, but probably crazy expensive.

[Gone Fission]

Thinking of stratting up caue I want a guitar with a vibrato for sane people. I wanna go for this design but I dont know if it has any benefits to have a neck hummie other than purely for aesthetics

It may just be my overreaction to getting into guitar in the 80s and the ubiquity of Strats with bridge humbuckers back then, but, yeah, neck ‘bucker on Strats. Bridge may blend better with the Strat pickups because physics brighten up and thins out the humbucker, but I don’t dig fighting the physics of the positions and averaging out to lukewarm water. But if you want more tonal range, I would do neck humbucker for ultra fat in contrast with the bridge single coil and the neck-bridge combo. Oh, and I would wire the bridge pickup on the middle of the five-way, so it’s neck-and-bridge rather than neck-and-middle for more of a Tele Deluxe thing.

[qersty]

Thinking of stratting up caue I want a guitar with a vibrato for sane people. I wanna go for this design but I dont know if it has any benefits to have a neck hummie other than purely for aesthetics

It may just be my overreaction to getting into guitar in the 80s and the ubiquity of Strats with bridge humbuckers back then, but, yeah, neck ‘bucker on Strats. Bridge may blend better with the Strat pickups because physics brighten up and thins out the humbucker, but I don’t dig fighting the physics of the positions and averaging out to lukewarm water. But if you want more tonal range, I would do neck humbucker for ultra fat in contrast with the bridge single coil and the neck-bridge combo. Oh, and I would wire the bridge pickup on the middle of the five-way, so it’s neck-and-bridge rather than neck-and-middle for more of a Tele Deluxe thing.

Yeah I thought of the tele thing too but doing a blend so you can have just a lil humbucker, i think that may actually be useful for something. Something about it is appealing, looks kinda wayne kramer too

[dubkitty]

rotate the humbucker 180 degrees so the poles are in the correct harmonic position, get a splittable 'bucker, and have the best of both worlds. well, more or less. probably works better with a Tele because it's a hotter bridge pickup. you might want to consider matching the relative output, because a 8.5k PAF will totally overwhelm a 6.5-7k Strat pickup. i wonder how a PAF would like a Tele circuit with 1k pots?

[qersty]

oh.. yeah.. thats a realization. I hate it when pickups dont match. might try swapping the bridge and neck on my duo sonic to see how terrible it is

[qersty]

yup, awful

[Blackened Soul]

You'd think since ERBs have been pretty a known thing since mid-late-90s that there would be more pickup options by now.. Finding 7 string bass pickup options is not very easy.. there are 2 brands you can get readily and then? I'm sending inquiries to Curtis Novak [high doubts he'd even want to..] and Aero to see.. fall back seems to be Bartolini but with them you NEED a pre because their pickups are so not very loud..

I've had "traditional" Barts in two different 7s (plus a bunch of 4s and 5s), they're great pickups if you know you like the Bart thing, if you don't you can never completely get away from, though using non-Bart preamps with them does help. The B-Axis otoh are kind of halfway between the classic Bart vibe and a great passive, but dunno if they're offering them in ERB.

My current 7 has a passive Kent Armstrong MM-style that sounds killer, they'll do pretty much anything custom order afaIk. Carey Nordstrand has also built them for his own 7s, but I don't know if he'll do it for aftermarket. Villex and Delano will make them, too, I think, but probably crazy expensive.

im more just seeing what else is out there and is the fall back, I've used barts for a long time... Aero got back to me.. They are very... Full of them selves.... I'm still a ways from underway though who knows were this will end up. Right mow i have a conklin groovetools neck, tuners and a bridge on order....

[Dandolin]

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[dubkitty]

not gonna be a guinea pig for a potential source of brain cancer. nopenopeNOPE.

[Gone Fission]

Weird thing to have an issue with, I know, but my Bliss Factory is really hard to keep from being out of control or very close. Any Fuzz Factory (or Bliss Factory) tips of note for also having more conventional sounds out of these guys?

[Eivind August]

Iirc: Keep stability dimed, and it stays fairly vanilla. Use the gate if it's overly noisy.

[Dowi]

Someone with a pedaltrain classic jr/1/2 or a palmer pedalbay 40/60 can please tell me if my og POG could fit underneath it? it's 20x17x4cm.
Planning to reduce my board size but that thing is huge so i'd rather command it with a remote switch and place it somewhere under.