Perry
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I tried searching for past posts on this so apologies if it has been covered before.
My 2011 513 has what I can only describe as a very microphonic neck pickup (or pair of pickups to be exact as it is actually two single coiled pickups twinned on a PCB).
I had my first post-lockdown gig yesterday and decided to use the 513 instead of the Custom 24. Clean and mild overdrive sounds were ok, though the guitar sounded a bit lively, but as soon as I used slightly higher gain for our Santana number, the neck pickup started shrieking - on both clear and full humbucker modes. I am not talking massive amounts of gain/overdrive either. This is the only one of my guitars that does this. Today I tried getting round the problem with adjusting both the tone on the guitar and amp EQ, but no success.
My question is, has anyone had a similar problem with their 513 pickups? I am going to remove them and I do appreciate care is required due to their PCB mountings; one of which I suspect may be the culprit.
P.S. I am in the UK so returning it to PTC is unfortunately not an option.
My 2011 513 has what I can only describe as a very microphonic neck pickup (or pair of pickups to be exact as it is actually two single coiled pickups twinned on a PCB).
I had my first post-lockdown gig yesterday and decided to use the 513 instead of the Custom 24. Clean and mild overdrive sounds were ok, though the guitar sounded a bit lively, but as soon as I used slightly higher gain for our Santana number, the neck pickup started shrieking - on both clear and full humbucker modes. I am not talking massive amounts of gain/overdrive either. This is the only one of my guitars that does this. Today I tried getting round the problem with adjusting both the tone on the guitar and amp EQ, but no success.
My question is, has anyone had a similar problem with their 513 pickups? I am going to remove them and I do appreciate care is required due to their PCB mountings; one of which I suspect may be the culprit.
P.S. I am in the UK so returning it to PTC is unfortunately not an option.