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Location: Florida | This is gonna sound like heresy, but has anyone ever heard of routing a Viper for a standard HB up by the neck? |
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Location: Scotland | A significant proportion of Ovation solidbodies which appear on ebay have been hacked-up for various pickups, so it's not an uncommon mod. Personally I like the Viper pickups, but if you want to add a humbucker go ahead. |
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Location: Houston, TX | You may be able to fit a mini-humbucker (like in a Gibson Firebird) without routing. I haven't looked at the specs, but I would think they are very close in size. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | A firebird pickup will fit without routing, there are also some thin humbuckers designed for strats that may not require any routing, but may require some creative pickguard work. |
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Location: Florida | I'm talking about a new EA68 Viper.
I've heard some samples of a guitar that blended magnetic HB and piezo pickups, and it sounded pretty sweet actually. That got me thinking about (aak) surgery. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | CharlieB,
Talk to Al......He has an extremely modified Viper (new style) "Frankenviper" I think is what he called it.....He played it at the OFC tour's jam and it sounded very cool & different!!(maybe it was just Al's way of playing that was "different" :eek: but cool nonetheless)
Al's "Frankenviper"
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Location: Scotland | Putting a neck pickup in an EA68 is a great idea, but I'd be tempted to go with a single-coil rather than a humbucker, based on the fact that the best sounding acoustic magnetic pickups on the market are single-coils. I'd also put each pickup on a separate output. |
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Location: Florida | I wasn't thinking of an acoustic magnetic, but a straight plain jain HB - something like a Gibson 57 Classic.
I've had a little correspondance with the honcho over at www.electrocoustic.com. He's doing a solidbody, but its carved thin in the middle - and cedar. He's also combining a peizo and HB pickup set, with simply a volume control and blend control.
He's getting some real nice tones there.
I was at first to just go seperate outputs. But I'm open to a little experimentation and (oh-my-frikkin'-god!!) drilling a hole in the top or side for a blend control, or volume control. I'm thinking that the preamp opening ought to allow enough working room to get things mounted from the inside. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Fishman makes a preamp that allows the use of magnetic and/or piezo pickups.
Fishman Powerchip |
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Viper mutilation
