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Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere

1172 by ErikG
penningtron wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 6:23 am
ErikG wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2023 7:02 pm Luthier type people: I have a Squier Musicmaster bass (mid 90's one w/ matching headstock.) Neck has a significant ski jump on the E-string side. Not my main player and not vintage $$$$ but a cool little bass.

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Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere

1174 by Dr Tony Balls
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:02 am
penningtron wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 7:46 am Not 100% sure what you're asking, but DiMarzio offers lots of F-Spaced humbuckers. Not 'cool' pickups but I've never felt like they didn't do what they said, and they're affordable.
I’m asking about the possible effects of putting the non-F-spaced Dimarzio humbucker I already have in the bridge position a hardtail Fender guitar.
Your pole pieces will just not line up with the strings that well. It'll work, but you'll have slightly lowered output on the strings further from the center. So your E strings will be a bit weaker than your A and B, which will be a bit weaker than your D and G.
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Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere

1175 by penningtron
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:02 am I’m asking about the possible effects of putting the non-F-spaced Dimarzio humbucker I already have in the bridge position a hardtail Fender guitar.
Ah! I've put pickups with non F-spaced poles in Fender bridge guitars before and they were fine. I didn't notice any major volume drops on or between certain strings or whatnot. It was mostly a visual/OCD thing that kind of gnawed at me and I eventually ordered an F-spaced Dimarzio humbucker. The Dimarzio was fuller/louder but they were very different pickups (humbucker-sized p90 vs moderate output humbucker)

Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere

1176 by Tom Wanderer
penningtron wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:36 am
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:02 am I’m asking about the possible effects of putting the non-F-spaced Dimarzio humbucker I already have in the bridge position a hardtail Fender guitar.
Ah! I've put pickups with non F-spaced poles in Fender bridge guitars before and they were fine. I didn't notice any major volume drops on or between certain strings or whatnot. It was mostly a visual/OCD thing that kind of gnawed at me and I eventually ordered an F-spaced Dimarzio humbucker. The Dimarzio was fuller/louder but they were very different pickups (humbucker-sized p90 vs moderate output humbucker)
Pole pieces not lining up perfectly hasn't been an issue for me unless its WAY off. I did a build where, after everything was done, I realized the poles on the bridge PU were pretty far off. The low E barely passing over the pole at all. I redid the whole pickguard to get it positioned better and it ended up sounding exactly the same as it did before I "fixed" it. Also put a Gibson bridge humbucker in a Duo Sonic and it worked awesome.

The 12 string I built last year just has one pickup, a Firebird, in the bridge position and it sounds awesome.

I had a guitar with old T Tops in it. Wish I still had those.
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Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere

1177 by Nate Dort
You can make a rough approximation of the difference in field strength using 1/r^3, where r is the distance from the source.

For example, if your string is supposed to be 10 mm away from the pole piece with a properly-spaced pickup, but you install a pickup with spacing that's 15 mm, your field strength percent change would be [(1/15^3)-(1/10^3)]/|1/10^3| = 70.37% decrease.

Of course, this is for a single field source. If your PU spacing is wider than it's supposed to be, then your A string pole piece is also going to be closer to your low E string than it would be with a "proper" PU, which will help compensate for the loss you'd get on the low E polepiece.

Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere

1178 by llllllllllllllllllll
It was the fucking preamp!!!!!!
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Feb 23, 2023 7:12 pm Lipstick baritone through a 30 watt tweed 2x10 with dumb eminence speakers set mostly clean fingers no pick. Very dynamic, transient sound.

The best compressors for this job are kind of clean like a LA-22 and a FMR RNC. I use a couple mics at a time, each in the front of their own speaker dead center, usually a AEA N22 and an old 421-u with some bass rolloff in the preamp

I’m still getting little overloads and distortion here and there. Even if I wail on it and get the peaks in reaper somewhere between -16 and -12, I’ll start tracking and hit passages where some kind of garbage peeks through. I think some parts of the neck really pop out

I’m still kind of figuring out tracking with the compressors. I like using them on the recorded sound after the fact, but that seems like a different game from when I’m tracking with them and just using them as a sort of safety, but there’s something not happening.

Any advice? Maybe something with the metering on the daw or compressors I’m missing? Something I should try specific with the compressor?

I am recording myself so there’s a lot of back and forth, just trying to get a method figured out for this situation

Re: Small questions that don't fit anywhere

1179 by numberthirty
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Mar 09, 2023 12:57 pm It was the fucking preamp!!!!!!
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Feb 23, 2023 7:12 pm Lipstick baritone through a 30 watt tweed 2x10 with dumb eminence speakers set mostly clean fingers no pick. Very dynamic, transient sound.

The best compressors for this job are kind of clean like a LA-22 and a FMR RNC. I use a couple mics at a time, each in the front of their own speaker dead center, usually a AEA N22 and an old 421-u with some bass rolloff in the preamp

I’m still getting little overloads and distortion here and there. Even if I wail on it and get the peaks in reaper somewhere between -16 and -12, I’ll start tracking and hit passages where some kind of garbage peeks through. I think some parts of the neck really pop out

I’m still kind of figuring out tracking with the compressors. I like using them on the recorded sound after the fact, but that seems like a different game from when I’m tracking with them and just using them as a sort of safety, but there’s something not happening.

Any advice? Maybe something with the metering on the daw or compressors I’m missing? Something I should try specific with the compressor?

I am recording myself so there’s a lot of back and forth, just trying to get a method figured out for this situation
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