Recent content by Vulpecula

Thanks for the advice on the 59 - which I'm sure will come in useful. I think Santana could get amazing sounds out of a garden spade hooked up with strings... :-)

I'll be putting a jazz in the neck (JB in bridge). Interesting you like the Jazz. There's a volume pot taper - off to google... This is the first wiring job I'll ever do so I'm on a very steep learning curve :-) (and loving it).

A JB in the neck and a Jazz in the bridge, which I may swap for a bridge 59 sometime in the future. Maybe cliche but I'm just starting on this journey. After having listened to a lot of pickup samples last night I went back to my PRS through a clean amp, and it sounded shocking - really muddy...

Thanks for the heads up re the Alcino 2 v Alcino 5. I'm learning fast! Having listened to lots of sample tones from pickups I see why many don't like the stock PRS SE pickups. They were made to sound very muddy by the alternatives. IMy wallet is cursing having a good ear, my smile is not. I...

I decided to go the whole hog - 2 pots and new pickups. I may regret it when I'm sitting there with the souldering iron :)

Thanks so much for all your advice.I spent a while researching different pickups, and even on YouTube I could hear better pickups made my stock ones sound extremely muddy. I was fortunate to find a second hand paitr of Seymour Duncans that were taked straight of a high end ESP guitar. Cut my...

You may well be right - I need to research that. Do you have any suggestions of what would sound good with a semi hollow? I like full rich warm tones. (Probably why I have humbuckers not single coil). I heard that the SE pickups were a bit muddy and less clear and you'd get more clarity from...

The wiring is massively confusing. I've established the pickups are PRS pickups, so should have 3 wires, hot, ground, and split. The wires from the pickups seem to only go to the 3 way toggle. There's a yellow, white and black wire coming from the inside of the guitar. Unfortunately it son't let...

I have an SE Custom semihollow which I bought in 2008. It pre dates when PRS added the coil split to this model. It has zebra humbuckers, 3 positions, no coil split or tap. I'm trying to research whether it is possible to reverse engineer a coil split or tap, and which one would be better. Any...