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    Or maybe not. I am starting to see a few new winders and an old one or 2 pop up with Scooped mids PU's liken to the John Mayer Pu's. I'm not the brightest guy in the world and maybe i'm just dense but here goes: How the hell are you gonna scoop mids out of something that is wound as low as strat PU's are that dont have a lot of mids to begin with? Please help a misguided old fool here

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    Marketing Hype!

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    • #3
      It's a bit similar to the BS principle. You need a big shovel.
      sigpic Dyed in the wool

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      • #4
        Walk over to your amp. Locate the knob marked "middle". Turn that knob to zero.
        www.tonefordays.com

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          Crap, my princeton doesn't have a mid pot! I'll never get the John Mayer tone now!!!
          www.chevalierpickups.com

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            Basically they are using heavy formvar, a low capacitance magnet wire, it tends to have a mid scoop kind of tone at the lower winds, the hotter you wind it the mids start to show up real well. But, yeah, its marketing hype, wow "magic" pickups, gotta haven 'em....
            http://www.SDpickups.com
            Stephens Design Pickups

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            • #7
              Originally posted by chevalij View Post
              Crap, my princeton doesn't have a mid pot! I'll never get the John Mayer tone now!!!
              S'truth.

              More knobs = better tone.


              -drh
              "Det var helt Texas" is written Nowegian meaning "that's totally Texas." When spoken, it means "that's crazy."

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              • #8
                Thanks for the replies, I just thought something new was out there in the winding world that slipped in under my radar....Hype for sure!!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by salvarsan View Post
                  S'truth.

                  More knobs = better tone.


                  -drh
                  THat means my first guitar that I made with 4 knobs, 1 5-way switch, and 5 smaller switches has the best tone right?

                  btw, I prefer simple guitars these days.....

                  Greg

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                  • #10
                    4 knobs, a 5-way and 5 minis? Oh yeah, that's a keeper! Definately a tone monster just by that description.
                    www.chevalierpickups.com

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                    • #11
                      My guitar have neck/bridge switch, two "preset" switches (like jazzmaster, hidden right above the pickups) to each pickup (Parallell/singlecoil/humbucker), volume and tonecontrol, and a hidden switch that turns the tonecontrol to a volumecontrol for the neck pickup. (I do some Tom Morello stuff). Everyone that pick up my guitar thinks there´s just volume, tone and one switch, simple. But then they look closer.... Seems to impress them and work as a hype

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