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MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:31 pm I'm currently in love with my phase 90, I pretty much leave the speed at 9:00 and it just works. Also have an ancient Maestro phaser that's really cool, a little more psychedelic than the MXR, adds a nice high overtone.

Anyway to belatedly answer FM Dudley's OP....I have a bunch of new guitars that all came with high gain humbuckers, and despite being the PRF's foremost Van Halen fan, I'm not really a high gain humbucker dude. So I've been swapping them out as funds allow. So....micro reviews of gear I've just bought:

Lindy Fralin Big Singles: these come in two flavors, 42 and 43, the latter are higher output. I have both, they're both killer. Just really even and balanced, they sound like a finished guitar tone on a record. High end feels like it goes on forever. They're bright but not at all harsh, the top is really smooth.

Fralin Unbuckers...low output humbuckers designed to be tapped. Unbalanced coils so there's almost no volume loss when going to single coil. Love these as well, the bridge might be my favorite of all these new pickups, just glorious.

Also have a Fralin Sunbucker and a PAF Pro waiting to go in another guitar, will report back when I get that done.

And in one other guitar I put in Dimarzios, a Humbucker from Hell in the neck and a Bluesbucker in the bridge. The latter is their PAF. They're good! Just not Fralin good.

Nico Adie wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 4:33 pm Yeah if you want the Paranoid Android phaser sound then you want a Small Stone.

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:58 am I have an early 70s Guild Bluesbird. The bridge is pretty janky. It's called a Muller bridge and is like an unreliable version of a tuneomatic. I could probably drop in an actual tuneomatic except the stud spacing on the guild is a bit wider. Does anyone know of tuneomatics that are undrilled, or could do a custom one for me?

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:04 am

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:58 am I have an early 70s Guild Bluesbird. The bridge is pretty janky. It's called a Muller bridge and is like an unreliable version of a tuneomatic. I could probably drop in an actual tuneomatic except the stud spacing on the guild is a bit wider. Does anyone know of tuneomatics that are undrilled, or could do a custom one for me?

I dont have the information but i'm sure its out there with some searching and reading. A preliminary skim suggested that you might want to be cautious to match the radius, and that a tuneomatic might be of a different radius than the guild.

Edit: i'd also want to know WHY its janky? Is it anything that could be repaired & improved on instead of replaced?

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:25 am The bushings that go in the guitar aren't threaded and the adjustment screws just sit in them. The bridge itself is the threaded part.
So anyway the adjustment screws have play in the bushings, and the threading in the bridge is sloppy, so the whole bridge can wiggle back and forth.