If it's yours, my bet is it's awfully nice.I think my DGT will go away in 2026. Not because it isn’t nice; I just like some other things more.
If it's yours, my bet is it's awfully nice.I think my DGT will go away in 2026. Not because it isn’t nice; I just like some other things more.
While I do love my DGT guitars (among others) immensely I am somehow always magically drawn to my Stratocasters. I totally get what you’re saying.I think my DGT will go away in 2026. Not because it isn’t nice; I just like some other things more.
While I do love my DGT guitars (among others) immensely I am somehow always magically drawn to my Stratocasters. I totally get what you’re saying.
If you connect in series a .047 cap to the hot wire of your neck pickup before the pot it will lower the bass response quite nicelyBefore you do anything as drastic as swapping out a pickup, you really should give the de-mud mod I mentioned above a try. Dirt cheap, and easy to do (and to reverse).
This is the neck tone I wanted when I did it (note it's clean; I am not and have never been a fan of neck Humbuckers under gain; I LOVE single coil neck pickups under gain). It's clear, not too bass heavy, but still rich-sounding.
If the issue is setting your amp for a bridge tone you love, then the neck is too muddy at those settings, this is a problem I have lived with my entire life... especially with neck humbuckers. The de-mud mod won't fix that. I'm going through the same thing now with my EBMM Luke III. But the de-mud mod will make for a beautiful sounding neck PAF, in and of itself.
As for humbuckers that are single-coil sounding, you've got:
Dimarzio EJ Custom
Dimarzio Humbucker From Hell
Fralin Twang Master
Fralin Big Single
...I'm sure there are some from smaller winders out there as well.
I've never played a Jazz, it does seem to solve the issue for some people, I don't think it has any less bass, it just has alot more treble. IMHO too much bass is the problem, more treble doesn't fix it.
Hopefully The String Action From The Factory Is Exactly How Grissom Likes His And Of Course Your Preference Is Exactly Like Grissom's Preference. It Would Be A Shame To Adjust Anything To Make It Work For You. This Mindset Sounds Like A Polite Spin On Jail. Who The Heck Wants To Live There?Throw out the perfect suit because the tie doesn’t match.
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Hit Me Up When You Decide.I think my DGT will go away in 2026. Not because it isn’t nice; I just like some other things more.
On the other hand, there are those three hots and a cot...This Mindset Sounds Like A Polite Spin On Jail. Who The Heck Wants To Live There?
That is kind of you. I wasn’t really planning on having something built while in the vault that day. I just stopped in to say hi. But there was a great big chunk of Koa that I couldn’t resist drawing on. The top, fingerboard and headstock all came from the one piece of wood.If it's yours, my bet is it's awfully nice.
Not, sure my memory is that good, but I’ll try. I know which ones are leaving in 2025 and then will see how the mix of what is left feels.Hit Me Up When You Decide.
I think the NF53 would be worth trying out, as the neck carve is narrower than the DGT.A tele with a DGT bridge pickup and a single-coil/noiseless neck pickup would be the bomb. That's why the NF53 is interesting to me... but it'll still have a PRS, not Fender, neck profile. I've never seen one out in the wild to try.
And a lot of muscled up bad boy types.On the other hand, there are those three hots and a cot...
Sounds like it'd be a very special guitar for several reasons.That is kind of you. I wasn’t really planning on having something built while in the vault that day. I just stopped in to say hi. But there was a great big chunk of Koa that I couldn’t resist drawing on. The top, fingerboard and headstock all came from the one piece of wood.
The dealer decided to build it as a drew it, whether I wanted the guitar or not. On the way home, Mrs got sad about someone else owning our design so we called back and took it.
Not that there's anything wrong with that!And a lot of muscled up bad boy types.
With The Cost Of Living The Way It Is Today You May Have A Point For A Short Term Sentence...LOL.On the other hand, there are those three hots and a cot...
LOL!With The Cost Of Living The Way It Is Today You May Have A Point For A Short Term Sentence...LOL.
I promised myself that I would not mod my DGT. I want it as it was intended.You could try a de-mud mod on the neck pickup. It works very well, I did it on my DGT.
It's a .0047uf capacitor in parallel with a 220K resistor, it's inserted on the neck pickup's hot lead, in-between the pickup and it's volume pot.
There are various "de-mud mods" out there... Seymour Duncan has one, there's one called "Artie's De-Mud Mod". I used Artie's, but messed with the capacitor and resistor values (of whatever I had on hand) until I liked what I heard.
I'm actually going to be doing this today, on my EBMM Luke III's neck pickup.
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DGT "De-mud mod" on neck pickup
Neck PAFs always have notoriously too much bass (woof) for my tastes. Rather than swap out the DGT neck, I decided to try several capacitor/resistor mods, know as "de-mud mods" to see if I could balance that pickup better. I don't want it brighter, I just want less bass. I have does this...forums.prsguitars.com
I promised myself that I would not mod my DGT. I want it as it was intended.
But If DG asked me what might be done to improve his baby It would be this. With the amp set fat like he sets it, the bridge pickup tone is fat but tight. When you switch to the neck pickup with the volume up, the excess mud makes it unusable.
I saw your post and read the reference to this mod:
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Mod Squad: Muddy sounding neck pickup? - Seymour Duncan
Muddy sounding neck pickup? Try Seymour’s quick tech fix By Seymour Duncan Tech Guru Scott Miller People often call and ask how to fix a muddy sounding neck pickup. Some years ago, Seymour taught me a cool trick to fix this exact problem. If you connect a .047 capacitor in series (directly...www.seymourduncan.com
After much angst and gnashing of teeth, I broke down and carefully installed a .047mf (not .0047) capacitor and a 240K resistor in parallel as described in your post.
Using DG's settings on a DG custom 30 my neck pickup is now useful at volume full, split or blended.
Thank you for posting your de-mud mod.
While I don't find my neck pickup muddy - I tend to use a high pass filter when recording, anyway - this sounds like an intriguing mod for those that do.After much angst and gnashing of teeth, I broke down and carefully installed a .047mf (not .0047) capacitor and a 240K resistor in parallel as described in your post.
Using DG's settings on a DG custom 30 my neck pickup is now useful at volume full, split or blended.
So did I. It’s a very effective and simple mod if you’re having issues with booming bass or muddy sound. This mod makes dense chords sound open and transparent. I usually play clean on the neck pickup at lower volumes. While I liked the transparency on certain chords, I missed some balance and warmth and didn’t bond with the overall sound. The dual pickup setting also sounded brittle to me. In the end I left my DGT stock.After much angst and gnashing of teeth, I broke down and carefully installed a .047mf (not .0047) capacitor and a 240K resistor in parallel as described in your post.
A small little PC board with a trim pot for the resistor would be ideal."you CAN put a capacitor in series with your neck pickup to cut some lows. But you will have to play with component values, and I suggest you also put a resistor in parallel with the cap (so that there is DC continuity from the pickup to the rest of the circuit). The overall tone is variable by the size of the cap and the size of the resistor. Start with .0022uf and 180k ohms. A larger cap will cut fewer lows, a smaller cap will cut more lows. A small resistor (<50k ohms) will reduce the effect of the cap. The smaller the resistor, the more lows bypass the cap)."
A small little PC board with a trim pot for the resistor would be ideal.