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02-08-2013, 01:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Germany, EU | | | If you buy a completely new J-Set or have "real J-Set", it would be better to place the neck PU to the "normal bridge" and the bridge to the "between bridge-PU and real-bridge".
Why? The bridge PU normally has some more windings and has more output. It wouldn't be good to put the "weaker J" nearer to the bridge. The amplitude of the string gets smaller and smaller ...
If you have out-of-phase problems with the neck PU, you can change (twist) both J-wires! Black would be HOT then, White/Yellow GND.
But keep that the wire from the "middle/upper J" (then black instead of white/yellow) is connected to the On/On/On switch an the "lower J" (then with white/yellow instead of black) is directly connected to GND.
I think it is much better to keep the "middle/upper J" on in SC-mode ... |
02-08-2013, 01:12 PM
|  | Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebie | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: SATX by way of NOLA | | | OK now the really inportant question:
"Where the hell did you find a Dark Star?"
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02-08-2013, 06:09 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Suffolk County, NY | | Thanks, Cad--I'll give it a shot! Quote:
Originally Posted by StrangerDanger OK now the really inportant question:
"Where the hell did you find a Dark Star?" | I had a want-to-buy ad in the TB classifieds for months, but only recently started bumping it up every day. I did that for about a week or so, and I somehow got a hit!
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02-08-2013, 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by ronaldpdbrandt Could I then flip the DS so that the poles are closer to the neck, or will I run into polarity issues? | You can have the poles facing any way you want, and that does not affect the polarity.
I would also put the longer J closer to the bridge, or even get two long Jazz pickups that are RWRP.
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02-09-2013, 05:06 PM
| | Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebie | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: SATX by way of NOLA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldpdbrandt Thanks, Cad--I'll give it a shot!
I had a want-to-buy ad in the TB classifieds for months, but only recently started bumping it up every day. I did that for about a week or so, and I somehow got a hit! | I had one of those too. Guess I shoulda bumped it. Congrats!
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02-09-2013, 07:10 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Suffolk County, NY | | Okay, I'm taking this show to the Luthier's Corner! Modding a P into a P-Tractor
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02-10-2013, 08:45 PM
| | | I have an RS Guitar works Tractor replica. V/T on the DS, V/V/T on the two J pups. J tone pulls for stereo, in for mono. I always run it mono. In mono DS and Js are in parallel. Tried series on the Js, loss of highs resulted. |
03-06-2013, 08:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: wherever they send me | | | I'm building a Tractor tribute as well. In my case I will be running the J's into a 4 way rotary for S Bridge soloed, Both Parallel, Both Series, N Bridge Soloed. Both the switch output and the DS ouput will branch off to a Passive Tone control for each and into a custom Buffer/Mixer circuit with Blend and master Vol.
The body and neck are Warmoth and arriving today. The DS is sitting at my house and and the J's are Nordstrands custom ordered as a RWRP set, but both bridge spacing.
Not exactly a historically correct replica, but it'll get the job done.
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