Ultimate Rhoads

Stiltzkin wrote:

randy will never die wrote:But the neck was still too hot for my taste

well, yeah, but you'll have balance which is very VERY hard to acquire with what you just described.

randy will never die wrote:I want the neck to sound close to a Telly but I still want that humbucking sound

I think I will look at a P90

you will NEVER get a tele-sound through a P90.
Remember, a P90 is really nothing more than a fat singlecoil with no humcancelling

randy will never die wrote:If I REMBER right the seymour Duncan motto is IF YOU CAN DREAM IT WE CAN BUILD IT

correction...if you can pay it we will build it it's the same for everything custom really

dannyahansen wrote:[
I agree that a p90 will never sound like a tele. If you want a tele sound you need 2 things. A guitar made out of ash with a maple neck and a tele pick up. That is it.

As far as balance it is not as hard as you think. The most popular combo for Seymour Duncan is a JB and a 59. The JB is a fairly hot pick up while the 59 is supposed to be like the PAF's of old. IOW it is a vintage low out put pick up. Dime used a Bill Lawrence XL500 which I have one and it is quite hot. Dime also used that 59 in the neck. The biggest thing to balance is how far from the strings the respective picks are.

dannyahansen wrote:As far as balance it is not as hard as you think. The most popular combo for Seymour Duncan is a JB and a 59. The JB is a fairly hot pick up while the 59 is supposed to be like the PAF's of old. IOW it is a vintage low out put pick up. Dime used a Bill Lawrence XL500 which I have one and it is quite hot. Dime also used that 59 in the neck. The biggest thing to balance is how far from the strings the respective picks are.

Stiltzkin wrote:
speaking from my own perspective, I once built a guitar(well, not so much build as assemble parts and putting on paint )
where I used a Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge and a DiMarzio PAF Pro in the neck and the PAF Pro were
WAAAAYYY louder than the bridge...and the SD Custom is supposed to be a high-output PAF on steroids.
In this case, not so much

Stiltzkin wrote:

dannyahansen wrote:As far as balance it is not as hard as you think. The most popular combo for Seymour Duncan is a JB and a 59. The JB is a fairly hot pick up while the 59 is supposed to be like the PAF's of old. IOW it is a vintage low out put pick up. Dime used a Bill Lawrence XL500 which I have one and it is quite hot. Dime also used that 59 in the neck. The biggest thing to balance is how far from the strings the respective picks are.

speaking from my own perspective, I once built a guitar(well, not so much build as assemble parts and putting on paint )
where I used a Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge and a DiMarzio PAF Pro in the neck and the PAF Pro were
WAAAAYYY louder than the bridge...and the SD Custom is supposed to be a high-output PAF on steroids.
In this case, not so much

Stiltzkin wrote:Yes.

But it could have something to do with the strings moving more at the neckspot and thus producing more
electric current i.e more output

Dino wrote:

Stiltzkin wrote:Yes.

But it could have something to do with the strings moving more at the neckspot and thus producing more
electric current i.e more output

I'm no electronics whiz but I'm pretty sure strings aren't suppose to produce electric current.

Stiltzkin wrote:

Dino wrote:

Stiltzkin wrote:Yes.

But it could have something to do with the strings moving more at the neckspot and thus producing more
electric current i.e more output

I'm no electronics whiz but I'm pretty sure strings aren't suppose to produce electric current.

no they don't I didn't express myself clear enough
what I meant was that the more the strings move(like they do in the neckspot)
the more current is produced by the pickup so the neck pickup would be
considerably louder than it's bridge companion given that they have around
the same amount of power.