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I have spare Alinco magnets long and short I could swap out if its Ceramic just wondered if anyone had cracked one open.
I have an old Wilkinson P90 which not quite as detailed as my best P90's and also one of their PAF's and yes I understand the better stuff completely but both of those get you well in the ballpark for pennies.
Obvious suggestion, try magnet swaps in your old Wilkinson P90 and/or the stock (G&B, Korea) PRS SE pickup. My best guess is that these are supplied with polished A5 bar magnets. Changing one or both of the original magnets should get you closer to the sounds of your better P90s.
One of my favourite P90s on the PRS SE One is the soapbar Duncan Antiquity. Alnico 2, 3 or 4 magnets should give your Wilkinson pickup some of the aged/degaussed vibe. Un-Oriented Alnico 5 would add grit.
The fly in the ointment with all of these suggestions is the lack of a treble roll-off tone control on the PRS SE One. For this reason, I am tempted to suggest either an overwound Filter'Tron type pickup or one of the EMG active humbuckers in a P90 shell.
then I thought about the cheap mini humbucker for a change.
and all that said I had been toying with the same idea of one of the p90 sized EMG just for a change.
Thanks for nudging me back back to the end just got to find one in the UK. Which I think is where I came unstuck when I got that idea.
The options are;
- dual-concentric stacked volume/tone pot à la Mick Taylor of Guitarist magazine and That Pedal Show.
- cut out an extension to the cavity - probably around the back and covered with a recessed plastic plate.
I tried the stacked controls. They were a pain in the ring finger to use.As you probably already know, the basic EMG Passive Tone pot achieves very little. On the Solderless PCB version, you cannot even change the capacitor value. The active VPLF tone control has a more noticeable effect. In my opinion, neither is as usable as the hardwired 25k pot with the capacitor of one's own choice.
An Oil City Pickups Winterizer could prove interesting but, really, you need two of them and individual volume pots to get the best out of them. That would require chopping rather a lot of the SE One away, somewhat defeating the object of its design.
Even the EMG suggestion is likely to involve the removal of some wood to accommodate the PP3.
you lot are one step ahead.
I am am not worried about routing out the wood it was bought dirt cheap as a modding platform only hardly been in Spain since I bought it and frankly been enjoying it as it is but for the odd jam or open mike night it would be nice to have a little variation available. I was looking at the idea of doing some sort of varitone rather than a straight tone or just a switch to get something like a cocked wah for a bit of solo variation.
got a couple of weeks more before driving down this year so will keep pondering.
As a cheap option for my cheap guitar.
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