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I wrote in a thread a while back about doing a pickup mod on my Tribute ASAT Classic. Took it to my guitar tech Jason at Too Many Guitars in Atlanta (a great tech!) a few weeks ago and just got it back. Had him install a GFS vintage mini in the neck position and move my neck MFD to a middle position. Wanted to hear what a mini hum sounded like on the ASAT, but didn't want to lose the sweet voice of the neck pickup.
Really happy with the outcome... still have the great tones that made me fall in love with this guitar, but now also have the warmth of the mini hum with some subtle new "flavors" in between. We kept most of the original wiring scheme but added a push/pull tone pot of the same value to facilitate featuring each of the pups independently, or any combination of pups with a 5-way switch. The mini hum is a bit hotter than the MFD's, but not so much as to be seriously out of balance.
Also acquired a new amp head that landed this week too. After much research and a bit of final auditioning at GC, I decided on an Egnater Tweaker to go with a 2 x 10 cab I built a while back with a pair of Weber Signature 8 ohm speakers. The Tweaker has tons of flexibility in tones and 15 watts from 3 12AX7's and 2 6V6S's. It's not often I get to take a "quantum leap" like this and I'm really looking forward to all the "possibilities" to explore...
Last edited by LKJ on Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:09 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Nice. You might want to play around with pickup heights if that mini-humbucker sounds louder than the bridge pickup. My reckoning is saying that the difference shouldn't be noticeable.
I see you've the reversed control plate too. Is that because the five-way switch is too easily knocked out of position?
Right on Blarg, thinking to tweak the pup heights a bit once I get settled in with the sound of things a bit. And yes I switched the plate around to get the switch out of the "line of fire" more, and so I can hook the volume knob with my with my little finger for easier "mid-course" adjustments...
You might consider to have the middle pickup reverse wound like on (most) 3-pickup G&L models ('Trinity', 'Classic S').
