Picking this up off the Tulsa Craigslist with a trade and am planning on modding it. I just don't know what exactly I want to do with it. I do know I don't want to spend more than a couple hundred dollars on this thing.
Anyway, what do y'all think?
1985 Westone Spectrum SX project
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1985 Westone Spectrum SX project
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Re: 1985 Westone Spectrum SX project
Your picture is broken.
I love the smell of solder in the morning.
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Re: 1985 Westone Spectrum SX project
nbabmf wrote:Your picture is broken.
Mwaah! Well, no picture then.
This guitar has to two single coil pickups and one humbucker in the bridge. I was thinking of changing out each of the pickups, but I don't know what I'd put in there. Suggestions? Anyone try the Seymour Duncan Invader?
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Re: 1985 Westone Spectrum SX project
I don't want to search.......
What Don't you like about the current pickups?
How is it built?
what type of bridge does it have?
What woods?
I have the precursor to the Seymour Duncan Invader. It is a good sounding pickup with more output then really needed for most things, but if you want to blast something without a booster it works. I found the highs a bit shrill stock but for some odd reason when I put a cover over it [gibson style, I drilled the cover to fit the poles, removed the pickups pole pieces put the cover on and put the PP back on through the cover
] it smoothed out.
What sound are you shooting for anyway?
What Don't you like about the current pickups?
How is it built?
what type of bridge does it have?
What woods?
I have the precursor to the Seymour Duncan Invader. It is a good sounding pickup with more output then really needed for most things, but if you want to blast something without a booster it works. I found the highs a bit shrill stock but for some odd reason when I put a cover over it [gibson style, I drilled the cover to fit the poles, removed the pickups pole pieces put the cover on and put the PP back on through the cover
] it smoothed out.What sound are you shooting for anyway?
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Re: 1985 Westone Spectrum SX project
Not to hijack the thread but if its like this...
http://www.westone.info/spectrumlx.html
I'd definetly be down for buyin unmodded.. >.>
http://www.westone.info/spectrumlx.html
I'd definetly be down for buyin unmodded.. >.>
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Re: 1985 Westone Spectrum SX project
Mudfuzz wrote:I don't want to search.......
What Don't you like about the current pickups?
How is it built?
what type of bridge does it have?
What woods?
What sound are you shooting for anyway?
Yeow, Mudfuzz with the hard questions.
I don't actually know what the current pickups sound like since I haven't picked it up yet. I do know that middle one cuts out and will need some work regardless. The stock pickups are Magnaflux IV single coils with a Magnaflux II UBC humbucker (taken from the Westone webpage). It also had a push-pull tone pot for phase reverse. I believe the neck and body are both maple. It has a Floyd Rose style trem with locking tuners.
Basically, I just want to turn this thing into a powerhouse. It will probably be used most in a metal setting.
Thank you for your help, Mudfuzz.
Should this image work, mine looks like this one.
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Re: 1985 Westone Spectrum SX project
I use an invader and a dimebucker in my ibanez...
The invader has tons of crunch if thats what you are looking for.
At least in the bridge position.
The invader has tons of crunch if thats what you are looking for.
At least in the bridge position.