It's Been Eight Years

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Isaac
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Re: It's Been Eight Years

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aceonbass wrote:I found the usual 330k (actually 275k) pots to be to dark with these 14k pickups, so I replaced the pots with push-pull pot with a 500k Bourns, and the rest with 500k CTS pots. The tone caps are now .022uF ERO caps. The tone is a bit clearer now, and the bridge pickup sounds really good, even with the tone rolled all the way back.
What's the function of the push-pull? Bass blocker cap?
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Re: It's Been Eight Years

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Isaac wrote:
aceonbass wrote:I found the usual 330k (actually 275k) pots to be to dark with these 14k pickups, so I replaced the pots with push-pull pot with a 500k Bourns, and the rest with 500k CTS pots. The tone caps are now .022uF ERO caps. The tone is a bit clearer now, and the bridge pickup sounds really good, even with the tone rolled all the way back.
What's the function of the push-pull? Bass blocker cap?
Dane has developed a number of variations of the "push-pull" of which I've at least two
  • - Push / Pull to Enable - Disable the 0.047 Cap
    - Push / Pull on 4003-S or v63 to provide stereo output i.e. Enable - Disable "Rico-Sound"
Both work really well and sound IMHO better than the factory standards
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It's Been Eight Years

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doctorwho wrote:
scotty wrote:Congrats!
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+1! 8)
+2 8) 8)
Dane -- your custom Pickguards are extremely cool ! ! 8) 8) 8)
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Re: It's Been Eight Years

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thx1955 wrote:
aceonbass wrote:Two modded S5's. Mine is on the left.
Very nice ...Dane, is that one of the new Ric tailpieces on your Fireglo ?
The tailpiece on my S5 is a 4001 tailpiece that I modded extensively, added a custom machined bridge insert to, then replated.
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Re: It's Been Eight Years

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aceonbass wrote:
thx1955 wrote:
aceonbass wrote:Two modded S5's. Mine is on the left.
Very nice ...Dane, is that one of the new Ric tailpieces on your Fireglo ?
The tailpiece on my S5 is a 4001 tailpiece that I modded extensively, added a custom machined bridge insert to, then replated.
Very nicely done ....
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