stratdeluxer
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Fellow Tokai players and tweakers! :lol:
I did some more work inside my Love Rock today after putting a Classic 57 in the bridge replacing a microphonic Classic Plus that Gibson exchanged for me...The Classic Plus has more mids and more highs.The Classic is still pretty bright but it's warmer and sounds better to me...My bridge Classic 57 pickup measures 8.1K
Here's what I did today to the electronics today...Took the 500k tone pot out and made it a No Load pot by scraping the carbon off from the internal disc..
Put a 1 meg resistor across both outside legs of the 500k volume pot which brought the volume pot resistance down to around 325k or so...This took a little(Not a lot)of the toppiness away from the bridge pickup and it seemed as though the bass is stronger and the tone is fuller.Exactly what I wanted.I have a .03 cap across the bridge tone control and I have plenty of tonal adjustment either brighter or darker...Playing clean,the bridge pickup is still fairly bright but not in a strat/tele way like it was but with a fuller tone..I like to roll the tone knob back to at least half way for clean playing...When playing with gain I'm finding just the opposite in that I roll the tone pot up more towards 10 to really cut and back it off to smooth things out...
I have an 820pf cap across the bridge volume pot but I may either remove it or drop the value down to about 680pf because I want the change to be transparent when I roll my volume off...
The neck pickup is the stock pickup from Tokai and is great(Measures 8.2K)...I have a .012 on the tone pot and it also is a No Load tone pot by me taking the pot apart and scraping carbon off...I have the 820pf cap on the volume pot also but it seems perfect with the neck pickup...
Both pickups are adjusted down aways because I feel it helps tame some shrillness and highend and it allows the pickups to see a larger area of string vibration..The neck pickup is pretty much flush with the cover and I'd say the bridge pickup is around 3/32" from the top of the pickup cover to the bottom of a depressed string high on the neck...The guitar looks,feels,and sounds absolutely amazing for about 3k less than a Gibson 59 lefty reissue...Wanted to pass this info on to someone. ;o)
John
I did some more work inside my Love Rock today after putting a Classic 57 in the bridge replacing a microphonic Classic Plus that Gibson exchanged for me...The Classic Plus has more mids and more highs.The Classic is still pretty bright but it's warmer and sounds better to me...My bridge Classic 57 pickup measures 8.1K
Here's what I did today to the electronics today...Took the 500k tone pot out and made it a No Load pot by scraping the carbon off from the internal disc..
Put a 1 meg resistor across both outside legs of the 500k volume pot which brought the volume pot resistance down to around 325k or so...This took a little(Not a lot)of the toppiness away from the bridge pickup and it seemed as though the bass is stronger and the tone is fuller.Exactly what I wanted.I have a .03 cap across the bridge tone control and I have plenty of tonal adjustment either brighter or darker...Playing clean,the bridge pickup is still fairly bright but not in a strat/tele way like it was but with a fuller tone..I like to roll the tone knob back to at least half way for clean playing...When playing with gain I'm finding just the opposite in that I roll the tone pot up more towards 10 to really cut and back it off to smooth things out...
I have an 820pf cap across the bridge volume pot but I may either remove it or drop the value down to about 680pf because I want the change to be transparent when I roll my volume off...
The neck pickup is the stock pickup from Tokai and is great(Measures 8.2K)...I have a .012 on the tone pot and it also is a No Load tone pot by me taking the pot apart and scraping carbon off...I have the 820pf cap on the volume pot also but it seems perfect with the neck pickup...
Both pickups are adjusted down aways because I feel it helps tame some shrillness and highend and it allows the pickups to see a larger area of string vibration..The neck pickup is pretty much flush with the cover and I'd say the bridge pickup is around 3/32" from the top of the pickup cover to the bottom of a depressed string high on the neck...The guitar looks,feels,and sounds absolutely amazing for about 3k less than a Gibson 59 lefty reissue...Wanted to pass this info on to someone. ;o)
John