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Just bought a Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV (pickup question)

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BlackSacrament

Apr 17, 2013
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#1
Salutations to everyone; I'm a new poster here but a long-term lurker of TB.

I've recently purchased a brand new Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV and I am looking to replace the stock pickups with those of Lollar's offerings. From what I've been told by those at Lollar, their TB humbuckers are passive. As far as what I've read about my Epi Thunderbird Pro, the electronics are active. I do not know about the pickups themselves however.

So what my question is, for those who are capable of answering, would the stock pickups happen to be passive, and the preamp only acts as a boost and EQ. If so I may be able to use stock electronics in installation. However, if the entire system is active, I will likely have to gut the bass and use more traditional pots and caps.

Additionally, if anyone happens to know the dimensions of the stock pickups, that'd save me quite a bit of trouble.

Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to assist me.
 
#4
Did you manage to switch out the pickups? I have an Epi tbird pro. It really sucks. I want to pull all active stuff and put in nice sounding passive stuff. The trouble is that it seems to have a proprietary pickup shape. I am curious about trying a set of Deep Sixx pickups but I am not sure if they will fit.
 
#5
Well, if they're smaller, they'll fit but won't fill the rout, which is not as pretty, but will work. If they're larger, the cavity can be routed larger so they'll fit. Grated, you may need to pay some money to make it happen, but if it's what you want, do you really care what it looks like? Anything is possible if you can not care so much about factory appearance.
 
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Darchyboy said:
Did you manage to switch out the pickups? I have an Epi tbird pro. It really sucks. I want to pull all active stuff and put in nice sounding passive stuff. The trouble is that it seems to have a proprietary pickup shape.
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Shouldn't be, I put a set of no-name passive soapbar humbuckers in my (4-string) T-bird pro. This pickup size is most commonly used for 5-strings I gather.

The bolt on Epi is a different story though.
 

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