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I think your web page is wonderful! I found the specific information I was trying to find and the routing was a snap. Me and my friends are furthermore interested in blues beginner guitar lessons if you ever feel as if writing about the subject. Once again, Appreciate it!
I’m loving your thinking on this (but that pointy droop headstock has GOT to go). I’d give it a go in a trice if MY strat mashup didn’t have a Danelectro lipstick in the middle and if it didn’t sound so flippin’ nice (the tele bridge and strat neck ones are all present and correct).
What do you think/hope would happen if you removed the earth from the tele pickup…apart from a great deal of fizz?
And what about a Filter’Tron in the middle for ultra coolness?
The beauty of these ‘virtual guitar’ programs is that you can indeed just decide to ditch a look and it costs you nothing! I agree one of the many ‘trons in the middle humbucker slot makes a lot of sense….magna, super, duo take your pick. I did think seriously about having a lipstick in there, but I just ran out of pickup slots and the humbucker all coil tapped in the middle just gives so may options.
There is a Strat / Tele comparison page under support on the website that shows the different magnetic field effects of pickups and the Tele is very very different. What I was thinking of experimenting with was keeping the main bridge assembly earthed, but removing the earth from the bottom of the Tele bridge pup. I’m thinking it would give an interesting Tele / Strat hybrid tone?
Hi Tony.
never realised you had a blog. Just popped on to buy another (should that be YET another) set of golds and saw the blog so I thought id say hi.
If there is anyone reading this and cant make up their mind, press the buy button. you wont regret it! Im not sure how many sets of these pick ups I have bought but its probably into double figures now. I can only speak for strat pick ups as that is all I have bought, but Tony is a top bloke to deal with. He made me two oppositely wound sets of silver strat pick ups for my 6 pick up strat project. No extra cost… just sorted it for me. Since my first set of ironstones I have never used anything else. Most of my builds feature Golds although I have also used silvers. Cant recommend them highly enough
Keep up the good work mate
Thanks very much for the recommendation and comments Ian.
Always a pleasure to hear how pleased returning customers are of course. And if any of you are wondering about that 6 pickup Strat project…… Click Here
hi, tony i recently bought 3 strat alnico v golds & i love them? i left a comment in august, i was just wondering on how to upload some clean sound samples from them, on to your channel? if possible . thanks!. paul.
Hi Paul,
Glad to hear you are so pleased with the Golds. The sound clip players on the site are apps that I place on the pages via the website editing process. So sound clips can’t be directly loaded. But I’m more than happy to include some clips from you if you simply email me the mp3′ to either of the email addresses shown on the ‘Contact Us’ page on the website. Cheers, Tony
Hi, just wanted to tell you, I enjoyed this post. It was inspiring.Keep on posting!
another great read Tony, keep them coming!
Will do Chris! I have been playing with dummy coils on a Jazz Bass too, renowned for their hum pickup. I have got a circuit that will add a single coil to a normal Jazz Bass twin blend pot set-up that’s quite cool. Tony
Hi Tony, Great blog! I would like to use the treble cut circuit to tame the brightness of my middle and neck pickups. I’m doing this to match the tone of the bridge pickup which is slightly darker. I still want to use my master tone to control all the pickups at once but I just want the pickups to be better matched in brightness. The pots are 500K. Do I need to wire a resistor and cap in series or parallel? Any idea of which values I should use? At the moment they are fairly close. Within 3 numbers on the knob/dial. Thanks for any help that you can give me.
Dan
Hi Dan, Glad to hear you liked the Blog. If I understand you correctly, what you want is indeed possible (I assume you want to keep the master tone control active for all 3 pups), with the re wired 5 way giving more treble cut to the Neck / Neck+Middle / Middle / Middle + Bridge combinations). You are effectively lowering the resistance of the tone pot by shunting a resistor in parallel with it for those 5 way switch settings.
Start by isolating one half of the 5 way as I have described. Its easier in your case as you have a single wire from the tone pot to reposition if needed. Now the fun!
Referring to the same number scheme I have used before, connect pins 7 and 8 together and then to the guitar earth. Now connect a single resistor (start with a 1MOhm) between the wiper (middle) terminal of the tone pot and the 5 way switch wiper terminal 5. So now the Bridge 5 way switch position will give treble cut as normal based on the normal master tone setting. All the other 4 switch settings will have a reduction in the effective value of resistance of the tone pot and thus a greater level of treble cut. The value of the additional resistor is a guess. increasing its value (say 2MOhm) will lessen the level of treble cut. Hope that helps. Cheers, Tony
It is actually a nice and helpful piece of info. I’m happy that you shared this helpful information with us.
Please keep us up to date like this. Thank you for sharing.
At Ironstone, we believe sharing this sort of technical support info is all part of the service. Thanks for the comments.
You need to take part in a contest for one of the most useful blogs on the
web. I will recommend this website!
Many thanks for the nomination, and glad you are enjoying the site!
Hi Erwin,
The Tele pickups are around the 7K mark, so ideally you want to be around that for the middle pickup. So probably from the Platinum range. The tele set is RWRP as a pair, so the additional middle pickup would not act like a Strat in the ‘in between 2 & 4 positions.
If you want to go ahead, please drop me a message via the website email system and i’ll give you a quote based on your location.
Cheers, Tony
what are the 4/64, 5/64 and 6/64 figures in metric plz?
Hi Clive, just a quick response to you comment about pickup height adjustments. 4/64 = 1/16 = approx 2mm, 6/64 = 3/32 = approx 3mm. These are of course for guidance only, use your ears for the most accurate final adjustments to suit your tone preferences.
Cheers Tony
No probs Chris. And you found Gravatar.com too! Tony
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I’ve been performing research on your web-site and will have to say Appreciate it! The material has been dead on target. I’m also thinking about online education if you have time to generate more information on the matter. Once more, Many thanks!
I think your web page is wonderful! I found the specific information I was trying to find and the routing was a snap. Me and my friends are furthermore interested in blues beginner guitar lessons if you ever feel as if writing about the subject. Once again, Appreciate it!
Superb Website.
I’m loving your thinking on this (but that pointy droop headstock has GOT to go). I’d give it a go in a trice if MY strat mashup didn’t have a Danelectro lipstick in the middle and if it didn’t sound so flippin’ nice (the tele bridge and strat neck ones are all present and correct).
What do you think/hope would happen if you removed the earth from the tele pickup…apart from a great deal of fizz?
And what about a Filter’Tron in the middle for ultra coolness?
The beauty of these ‘virtual guitar’ programs is that you can indeed just decide to ditch a look and it costs you nothing! I agree one of the many ‘trons in the middle humbucker slot makes a lot of sense….magna, super, duo take your pick. I did think seriously about having a lipstick in there, but I just ran out of pickup slots and the humbucker all coil tapped in the middle just gives so may options.
There is a Strat / Tele comparison page under support on the website that shows the different magnetic field effects of pickups and the Tele is very very different. What I was thinking of experimenting with was keeping the main bridge assembly earthed, but removing the earth from the bottom of the Tele bridge pup. I’m thinking it would give an interesting Tele / Strat hybrid tone?
Hi Tony.
never realised you had a blog. Just popped on to buy another (should that be YET another) set of golds and saw the blog so I thought id say hi.
If there is anyone reading this and cant make up their mind, press the buy button. you wont regret it! Im not sure how many sets of these pick ups I have bought but its probably into double figures now. I can only speak for strat pick ups as that is all I have bought, but Tony is a top bloke to deal with. He made me two oppositely wound sets of silver strat pick ups for my 6 pick up strat project. No extra cost… just sorted it for me. Since my first set of ironstones I have never used anything else. Most of my builds feature Golds although I have also used silvers. Cant recommend them highly enough
Keep up the good work mate
Thanks very much for the recommendation and comments Ian.
Always a pleasure to hear how pleased returning customers are of course. And if any of you are wondering about that 6 pickup Strat project……
Click Here
hi, tony i recently bought 3 strat alnico v golds & i love them? i left a comment in august, i was just wondering on how to upload some clean sound samples from them, on to your channel? if possible . thanks!. paul.
Hi Paul,
Glad to hear you are so pleased with the Golds. The sound clip players on the site are apps that I place on the pages via the website editing process. So sound clips can’t be directly loaded. But I’m more than happy to include some clips from you if you simply email me the mp3′ to either of the email addresses shown on the ‘Contact Us’ page on the website. Cheers, Tony
Hi, just wanted to tell you, I enjoyed this post. It was inspiring.Keep on posting!
another great read Tony, keep them coming!
Will do Chris! I have been playing with dummy coils on a Jazz Bass too, renowned for their hum pickup. I have got a circuit that will add a single coil to a normal Jazz Bass twin blend pot set-up that’s quite cool. Tony
Hi Tony, Great blog! I would like to use the treble cut circuit to tame the brightness of my middle and neck pickups. I’m doing this to match the tone of the bridge pickup which is slightly darker. I still want to use my master tone to control all the pickups at once but I just want the pickups to be better matched in brightness. The pots are 500K. Do I need to wire a resistor and cap in series or parallel? Any idea of which values I should use? At the moment they are fairly close. Within 3 numbers on the knob/dial. Thanks for any help that you can give me.
Dan
Hi Dan, Glad to hear you liked the Blog. If I understand you correctly, what you want is indeed possible (I assume you want to keep the master tone control active for all 3 pups), with the re wired 5 way giving more treble cut to the Neck / Neck+Middle / Middle / Middle + Bridge combinations). You are effectively lowering the resistance of the tone pot by shunting a resistor in parallel with it for those 5 way switch settings.
Start by isolating one half of the 5 way as I have described. Its easier in your case as you have a single wire from the tone pot to reposition if needed. Now the fun!
Referring to the same number scheme I have used before, connect pins 7 and 8 together and then to the guitar earth. Now connect a single resistor (start with a 1MOhm) between the wiper (middle) terminal of the tone pot and the 5 way switch wiper terminal 5. So now the Bridge 5 way switch position will give treble cut as normal based on the normal master tone setting. All the other 4 switch settings will have a reduction in the effective value of resistance of the tone pot and thus a greater level of treble cut. The value of the additional resistor is a guess. increasing its value (say 2MOhm) will lessen the level of treble cut. Hope that helps. Cheers, Tony
It is actually a nice and helpful piece of info. I’m happy that you shared this helpful information with us.
Please keep us up to date like this. Thank you for sharing.
At Ironstone, we believe sharing this sort of technical support info is all part of the service. Thanks for the comments.
You need to take part in a contest for one of the most useful blogs on the
web. I will recommend this website!
Many thanks for the nomination, and glad you are enjoying the site!
Hi Erwin,
The Tele pickups are around the 7K mark, so ideally you want to be around that for the middle pickup. So probably from the Platinum range. The tele set is RWRP as a pair, so the additional middle pickup would not act like a Strat in the ‘in between 2 & 4 positions.
If you want to go ahead, please drop me a message via the website email system and i’ll give you a quote based on your location.
Cheers, Tony
what are the 4/64, 5/64 and 6/64 figures in metric plz?
Hi Clive, just a quick response to you comment about pickup height adjustments. 4/64 = 1/16 = approx 2mm, 6/64 = 3/32 = approx 3mm. These are of course for guidance only, use your ears for the most accurate final adjustments to suit your tone preferences.
Cheers Tony
No probs Chris. And you found Gravatar.com too! Tony