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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert View Post
    Good luck with the install, Marnold!
    Thanks. Maybe I can get to it later today or tomorrow. I'm also going to finally shorten the leads on the bridge humbucker and rewire the push-pull pot so that it will go series-parallel. I think I'll like that tone better for one thing. Plus the neck pup is not RWRP. Even though the Lace pups are low noise, they are not noiseless. So in the middle position with the bridge split, I'd have the most noise instead of the least. If I'm doing my math right, the humbucker in parallel would have roughly the same resistance as the neck single (26.4K bridge, 6K neck). I realize that it will still sound quite different.
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    Your bridge humbucker has 26.4Kohms resistance?? Wow! Don't think I've seen one that high!
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    Quote Originally Posted by duhvoodooman View Post
    Your bridge humbucker has 26.4Kohms resistance?? Wow! Don't think I've seen one that high!
    Yep. Shows that resistance can be a deceiving measurement. It's hot, but not crushingly so. It's also not muddy as all get out, although it certainly is not a bright pickup.
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    CRAP! After busting my kiester to take off the strings, disconnect the bridge pup, clean off the push-pull pot, shorten the leads on the bridge pup, get everything rewired and restring, I realize that Lace's diagram is upside down. So if the push-pull pot is pushed in, it's in parallel. Pulled out, it's in series. I don't really feel like pulling it apart all over so I may just keep it the way it is and see how I like it. It is brighter than I expected in parallel.
    Axen: Jackson DK2M, Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Reverend Warhawk 390, Taylor 914ce, ESP LTD Surveyor-414
    Amphen: Jet City JCA22H and JCA12S cab, Carvin X-60 combo, Acoustic B20
    Effecten: "Thesis 96" Overdrive/Boost (aka DVM OD2), Hardwire DL-8 Digital Delay/Looper, DigiTech Polara Reverb, DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory and CF-7 Chorus Factory, Danelectro CF-1 Cool Cat Fuzz
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    I hate it when that kind of thing happens! At least it's just a reversal, and everything actually works right otherwise...
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    Quote Originally Posted by tjcurtin1 View Post
    I hate it when that kind of thing happens! At least it's just a reversal, and everything actually works right otherwise...
    Remarkably, yes. I got everything exactly right the first time . . . albeit upside-down.
    Axen: Jackson DK2M, Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Reverend Warhawk 390, Taylor 914ce, ESP LTD Surveyor-414
    Amphen: Jet City JCA22H and JCA12S cab, Carvin X-60 combo, Acoustic B20
    Effecten: "Thesis 96" Overdrive/Boost (aka DVM OD2), Hardwire DL-8 Digital Delay/Looper, DigiTech Polara Reverb, DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory and CF-7 Chorus Factory, Danelectro CF-1 Cool Cat Fuzz
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    Tonight I'm going to revert it to coil shunt. The parallel mode is bright to the point of being shrill. My guess is that because the pickup has a good amount low mids, those frequencies get canceled, leaving it all top end. Oddly enough, I also found that the middle position sounds almost exactly the same whether in series or parallel. Coil shunting provides two more distinct tones. I suppose it stands to reason because a Lace Dually is closer to two single coils together than a typical humbucker is.
    Axen: Jackson DK2M, Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Reverend Warhawk 390, Taylor 914ce, ESP LTD Surveyor-414
    Amphen: Jet City JCA22H and JCA12S cab, Carvin X-60 combo, Acoustic B20
    Effecten: "Thesis 96" Overdrive/Boost (aka DVM OD2), Hardwire DL-8 Digital Delay/Looper, DigiTech Polara Reverb, DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory and CF-7 Chorus Factory, Danelectro CF-1 Cool Cat Fuzz
    "I wish Imagine Dragons would be stuck in an Arcade Fire for an entire Vampire Weekend."--Brian Posehn

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