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 Post subject: Re: PE-R60 In The Works
PostPosted: Thu 07 Jul 2022 07:06 PM 
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Yummy!
The 53's are icing on the cake, congrats! :goodjob:

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 Post subject: Re: PE-R60 In The Works
PostPosted: Mon 11 Jul 2022 01:07 AM 
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53's. . . :rockwoot:

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Well I've had some time with it now and all I can say is WOW!!!!! I thought I wouldn't like these pickups but much to my surprise I love them. Plays like butter too. Worth every penny I spent. I've also decided I like the series/parallel option. It works well with these pickups where it didn't all that well on most of my Duncan equipped guitars.


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PostPosted: Fri 22 Jul 2022 04:52 PM 
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Crusty wrote:
Well I've had some time with it now and all I can say is WOW!!!!! I thought I wouldn't like these pickups but much to my surprise I love them. Plays like butter too. Worth every penny I spent. I've also decided I like the series/parallel option. It works well with these pickups where it didn't all that well on most of my Duncan equipped guitars.


MMK53s tend to be a bit muddy in the neck position. Parallel operation helps a lot to tighten the bass response.

For my PE-R80s (Dimarzio and MMK versions), I usually have the bridge pickup in series and the neck pickup in parallel when playing. Never liked the coil split sound on those.

I used to have a set of SH1s in a PE-60 for some time... but I always used them in series wiring when playing.


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 Post subject: Re: PE-R60 In The Works
PostPosted: Fri 22 Jul 2022 05:12 PM 
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I rarely use the neck pickup save for simple leads where I want a creamier tone. I have the neck pickup pretty low on most of my guitars. Definitely lower than most people do, probably flush with the face of the guitar or a little lower (below the pickup ring). Too close and not only to they clamp the strings more but they can get pretty "boomy". Not my favorite tone.


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I do use the neck pickup for clean sounds frequently... especially when the guitar has a Duncan SH4 (or similar) in the bridge position that sounds great with overdrive... but not so great clean.


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