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Location: Upper Left USA | I have this plan to use a pair of UKII pickups in this Deacon Project. Also included may be:
Artec Active with Mid Boost
Varitone 10 option Tone Control
3 way Switch
Single Volume
Any advice, input, comparisons or suggestions would be welcome!
BTW - I'll need to extend my permit for soldering again... |
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Location: NW Washington State | You might try temporarily mounting the pickups on a pickguard with no controls- just an output jack for each pickup. Maybe a phase switch in the circuit for one pickup. Then test your different switch and preamp combinations outside the guitar so it's easy to tinker.
Seems to me that the UKII pickups were claimed to be high output. I've never used them and don't know. Anyway, a pickup with high output could overdrive the Artec module and that might not be a nice sound.
If I were doing something like a varitone, I'd use a Bill Lawrence "Q-Filter" inductor, available from his shop . From what I've read they aren't good at answering email, probably better to phone.
-Steve W. |
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Location: enid, ok | Woody, you are the master of all things electric, and I would never, under ordinary circumstances, pretend to even suggest to give you advise. But you asked. I've always thought that a breadwinner/deacon with that set-up would be the rock axe from hell. My suggestion would be to lose the sissy schaller, and put a whammy bar on that puppy; a wilkenson with a teflon nut (no big deal)and locking tuners (not too big a deal) would rock anyone's house with gusto. Oh yeah! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I am a total Hack, I just post well!
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Trem bars belong on Strats and the bigger ones on Gretch's, everything else should be played with a fixed bridge.
(Obviously I don't know how to play with a trem.)
Numby,
I'm looking into the impediance thing. I do have a set of Bill Lawrence L-500's that read 4.10...
"Batteries belong in flashlights."
Bill Lawrence |
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Location: NW Washington State | There's Bill Lawrence, the guy who designs and builds pickups, except his real name is Willi, and there's Bill Lawrence the company, but Bill Lawrence doesn't work there. Both make a version of the L-500. There's a lot of lawsuits, name calling and claims about which pickups are better.
Bill Lawrence, the guy not the company, makes the Q-filter coil for a varitone. Nice thing about it is that it's a humbucking coil and won't add hum.
-Steve W. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | A Deacon with UKII pickups would rock. Period.
I would use a Neal Moser varitone, it's a 6 position but I have one in my Genesis on a knife switch... obviously only using 5 of the positions.
But regardless of that.. a UKII with a pickup switch, single volume and tone or whatever config you like... would rock... plain and simple. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So, to keep the series/parellel thing going which schematic is preferred:
2 HB 1 Vol 1 Tone 3 way and mini toggle
and THIS might help explain.
Can I wire the UKII's like this or is the P-rail a different animal? |
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Deacon with Alternate Pickups and Switching