Paranoid Squire

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Re: Paranoid Squire

Post by LVC » Wed Sep 15, 2021 12:52 pm

hanskung wrote:
Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:48 am
Ok great! It can be done! I'm very encouraged! Of course I'm not going to do the work, I'll have to find someone. Curious.....what pickups did you use? I love this guitar....it's the best neck I've ever played, I'm small, the 24 " scale and narrow nut is fantastic. I like it so much I bought two, I'm selling my strat.
I changed the pickups for alnico lipstick humbuckers. They were cheap but they sound really good, they're fairly hot but very mellow and articulate at the same time. I don't dislike the stock Squier Atomic humbuckers, but I they weren't what I had in mind for this guitar; I will probably end up putting them in another guitar.

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The stock humbuckers are fully splittable. If you fancy having more tonal options, you can ask whoever is going to do your wiring to add push-pull (or push-push) pots. That's the next thing I'm planning to do on mine as these lipstick hbs are splittable too.
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Re: Paranoid Squire

Post by HNB » Wed Sep 15, 2021 1:10 pm

Looks classy. :D
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Re: Paranoid Squire

Post by hanskung » Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:18 pm

Took it to a guy who set up the tone control in a half hour, thanks all.

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Re: Paranoid Squire

Post by HNB » Thu Sep 16, 2021 1:39 pm

Nice!!
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Re: Paranoid Squire

Post by LVC » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:10 pm

HNB wrote:
Wed Sep 15, 2021 1:10 pm
Looks classy. :D
All thanks to you! :)

hanskung wrote:
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Took it to a guy who set up the tone control in a half hour, thanks all.
Glad it worked out for you!
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Re: Paranoid Squire

Post by vpich » Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:06 am

Yeah. Did this to mine. Hated the stock wiring. Put in this switch: SALECOM Guitar/AMP Fat Bat Toggle Switch DPDT 6 Pin 3 Way ON ON ON Sealed Guitar Switch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075684LSY/re ... 2t8UxkYUGI , really nice chunky solid feel. Will probably swap out the pickups at some point but they are good enough.

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Re: Paranoid Squire

Post by tammyw » Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:25 am

pacemaker wrote:
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If you want to go over the top and have volume and tone for both pickups, you could use stacked pots, similar to what you'd find on a Fender Jazz Bass. I did this with a basketcase Mustang in the mid-90s; it was pretty cool to have the added options.
Ugh, I tried that back when the Pawn Shop Super-Sonic came out, and it was terrible. I think a Super-Sonic ceases to be super when you add a tone control. I mean, anyone can do whatever they want, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Also, I think you linked to a ganged pot, which is one knob turns both at the same time. A Jazz bass has a concentric pot where each half can be turned independently with concentric stacked knobs.
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Re: Paranoid Squire

Post by alexpigment » Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:38 pm

tammyw wrote:
Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:25 am
Ugh, I tried that back when the Pawn Shop Super-Sonic came out, and it was terrible. I think a Super-Sonic ceases to be super when you add a tone control. I mean, anyone can do whatever they want, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Also, I think you linked to a ganged pot, which is one knob turns both at the same time. A Jazz bass has a concentric pot where each half can be turned independently with concentric stacked knobs.
Barring any other factors that aren't stated here, the only difference that the presence of a tone knob would result in is a lowering of the total ohms in the circuit. For example, a 500k volume and a 500k tone would result in a total of 250k. To retain the same amount of highs as the stock wiring, you'd need to change to 1meg volume and 1meg volume. That should in theory be the same as a 500k volume pot with no tone pot. Obviously tolerance variations exist, and other factors come into play when you turn down each of those knobs, but I'm just saying that there shouldn't be an inherent loss of tone when adding a tone pot.

Then again, I'm sure people will have anecdotal claims contrary to this, and I respect that sometimes there are inexplicable sonic qualities that don't line up with the theoretical explanations.

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