Author Topic: Pick Up Adjustment (Read 361 times)

sonicus · « **Reply #15 on:** October 26, 2009, 07:13:54 PM »

That would be worth quite a bit now Bill. Like the 1966 Sunbeam Tiger (289 cubic inch ) that I let go.

robinc · « **Reply #16 on:** October 26, 2009, 11:47:21 PM »

Thanks for the advice all!

I have rehearsal tomorrow so I don't want to mess around with it at the moment, but as soon as I get an opportunity I will do a little bass surgery and get back to you all.

jacko · « **Reply #17 on:** October 27, 2009, 05:55:44 AM »

Bill. My spridget is in need of a little more than loctite ;-)

jacko · « **Reply #18 on:** October 27, 2009, 05:57:12 AM »

oops - forgot the pic. Bodyshell is on it's side having just had a new floor..

Graeme

lbpesq · « **Reply #19 on:** October 27, 2009, 07:27:17 AM »

Ahh yes, old British sports cars. Of course you know why they drink warm beer in England? Lucas refrigerators! Lucas: Prince of Darkness.

Bill, tgo

sonicus · « **Reply #20 on:** October 27, 2009, 07:58:13 AM »

Many of them used a Positive ground for a while!

jazzyvee · « **Reply #21 on:** October 27, 2009, 04:13:46 PM »

I've been checking over my orion guitar in prep for a gig on Friday. I notice the pickups are not parallel to the strings. Should they be? Is that a problem if they are not. ?. There is only one screw in the middle on each side of the pickup so they don't have the same kind of adjustment as other pickups.
Jazzyvee

mica · « **Reply #22 on:** October 27, 2009, 08:31:00 PM »

The pickups are usually parallel to the top of the pickguard or the bottom of the pickup routing in the 2-screw mounting scheme. There's no problem to have a slightly different angle, especially if they sound good.

jazzyvee · « **Reply #23 on:** October 28, 2009, 10:47:11 AM »

Thanks Mica, yes they sound good, ( obviously), but I noticed that with the pickup in the middle position, the bridge pickup seemed to have more dominance over the sound and I was thinking of raising neck pickup to get more of its tone into the output. That's when I started thinking if the angle would make any difference.

I will have a go at raising the bridge pickup to get more of it's the tone then balance the volumes with the gain pots inside.

Jazzyvee

mica · « **Reply #24 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:14:10 PM »

The gain inside only impacts the overall volume because as I recall your guitar has one preamp. You would need a preamp for each pickup to be able to adjust the gains independently.

jazzyvee · « **Reply #25 on:** October 29, 2009, 06:11:42 AM »

Ahh Mica, i think you are mixing up my guitars. Maybe I wasn't clear enough.
My Orion guitar now has the vol, filter and Q-switch that I sent to you for servicing.

The vol, bass & treble circuit is in the stratocaster.

The middle position I refer to in my posting is the mid switch position on my Orion guitar. I want to get the balance of tone between bridge and neck to be more even. At the moment it seems brighter as the bridge pickup is closer to the strings than the neck.

Jazzyvee

mica · « **Reply #26 on:** October 29, 2009, 09:43:10 AM »

There's still only one preamp in the Filter/Q switch system. You'll see only one trimpot in the inside. The only control you have over the output of the two pickups is the distance from the strings when there is one preamp.

jazzyvee · « **Reply #27 on:** October 29, 2009, 10:46:47 AM »

Ok Cool, thanks Mica.

Jazzyvee