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...not only have I put a synth pickup on a Jaguar (and used it for 5 or so years now), today's the day I finally got to realize my insane dream.

Added a dedicated GK-3 (guitar, not bass - BASS WILL NOT WORK due to string spacing) pickup to the VI. Thanks to ordering direct from Japan, saved almost a hundred bucks on the damn pickup (just under half off).

Now I can play with worlds of guitar synth fun on my favorite range of Fender instruments.

Minimal adjustment required (only thing with using the GK3 versus the B's bulb, for the dedicated crazies, you can swap the GK3 pickup element and add it to the GK3-B bass bulb, is you have to up the string sensitivity a hair, but easy enough).

Tracking is as I remembered when I put it on for the afternoon a few years back, only better because I was willing to take the half hour to do a proper setup versus "throw it on and see if it works). The ability to mix in a little legit bass pickup makes the upright bass models that were satisfying but not quite there on the Jaguar-mounted version was worth the price of admission alone.

Like the non-moved trem variants of the other offsets, you can't use the strap mount GK method and have to screw/doublesided tape it to the guitar body. No big deal on a $350 instrument, but....I might have cringed a little on a custom shop model (oh, fuck it, I'd have plastered it with stickers and tossed two pickups on a $3k guitar!).

holy frick that is awesome

Man knows how to live.

… and, apparently, it's unhorribly thinkable…

Where are the sound clips?

Clips dude. Clips.

Chank beat me to it

Only been flying for a couple hours.

All I has is this thusfar, two VI synth tracks (Upright + string section /mag PU)to test tracking and to screw around.

https://soundcloud.com/rfurtkamp/hallow ... of-scrying

Fucking soundcloud embed.

Holy noir soundtrack Batman!

Sometimes I'm in the mood.

And hooking it into the rest of the pedalboard wasn't a good way to test stuff.

That comes later once I've had some rest.

Somebody's gotta keep the psychojazz faith though!

#thud

#psychojazz

#itgetsreallygoodabouttwothirdsofthewayin

This gives me a jwarboner.

Would it be possible to mount the GK3 device inside the guitar? It would essentially be a rehousing job, just inside the guitar. I never cared for the stock Jaguar wiring setup and I see all the extra controls as opportunities for interesting mods, like this. Just an idea. Though, I may be just an idiot.

codetocontra wrote:Would it be possible to mount the GK3 device inside the guitar? It would essentially be a rehousing job, just inside the guitar. I never cared for the stock Jaguar wiring setup and I see all the extra controls as opportunities for interesting mods, like this. Just an idea. Though, I may be just an idiot.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GKKITGT3

You can mount with the internal kit. The internal kit's more expensive, and requires some skill to install.

If your'e not comfortable installing a new bridge system yourself (or letting whoever's working on the guitar do the same), I'd let an experienced dude handle it.

Chances are wouldn't be too difficult to install in a Jaguar - the routing though is something that mortal man shouldn't take on themselves - you've got to deal with a cavity big enough to take the internal electronics (not sure how actually big the board is on it, plus hack somewhere in for the 13 pin permanent install.

I talked to my normal advanced guitar tech for all things insane and he was willing to do it on a Jaguar but said it'd be expensive and to do the bulb if I could deal with that. He knew I was competent enough to set that up (it's made out to be a lot more complex than it is, and the newer generation of synth is a lot more forgiving on tracking than the old GR-20 etc were).

Basically it's $130 (Japan) / $220 (US dealer) for the external GK3, $300+ for the internal (never found a Japanese dealer listing them) plus a couple hundred for the install.

I'm a cheapass.

If I was do to a custom guitar, sure. I'd probably shell out the $$$.