Pickups under pickguard...?
- Marquischacha
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Pickups under pickguard...?
I'm starting to meddle with an old squier strat, found a nice new pickguard with no ready-cut holes and now i'm tempted to mount the pickups under the guard, and have one single volume knob on it, but would it even be audible with the pickups under a 1-ply 'guard?
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- the older brother
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Re: Pickups under pickguard...?
ah - like some of the Marauder prototypes:
That's cool!
Why shouldn't it be audible - alot of pups are covered in plastic (totally) - it would be the distance to the strings maybe - try to screw a regular pup all the way down and cover it with some plastic material and try it out!
That's cool!
Why shouldn't it be audible - alot of pups are covered in plastic (totally) - it would be the distance to the strings maybe - try to screw a regular pup all the way down and cover it with some plastic material and try it out!
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Re: Pickups under pickguard...?
yeah! the marauder was exactly my thinking - i'll give it a try.
here's a quick mockup of what i'm after -
i'll see how it goes
here's a quick mockup of what i'm after -
i'll see how it goes
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Re: Pickups under pickguard...?
Somebody over on the ReRanch forum did something like that with a Tele. If I remember right, he hid the neck pickup under the pickguard to make a "stealth Esquire". Apparently it worked fine, he just had a use a hot pickup in the neck position to match the volume of the bridge pickup.
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Re: Pickups under pickguard...?
i had the neck pickup hidden under the pickguard on my modified squier tele. it sounded great, but of course the bridge pickup was a lot louder since it was closer to the strings.