Quiet

[jrmroxx]

Hi, On playing my recently assembled strat project, i noticed the volume rather lower than my stock USA strat, the noo strat has axerus screaming banshee pickups on with push pull pots. Are these pickups just crap or what?:barf Also there is a distinct lack of twang on the second position switch
compared to stock strat!

Any ideas people.

Ps thanks to fumbler set up on new strat alot better and making improvements slowly but surely.

[stevel]

Hi, On playing my recently assembled strat project, i noticed the volume rather lower than my stock USA strat, the noo strat has axerus screaming banshee pickups on with push pull pots. Are these pickups just crap or what?:barf Also there is a distinct lack of twang on the second position switch
compared to stock strat!

Any ideas people.

Ps thanks to fumbler set up on new strat alot better and making improvements slowly but surely.

My first thing would be pickup height.

Overall volume has to do with how close the pups are to the strings.

The "twang" on the 2 and 4 positions varies with the relationship of the neck and middle, or middle and bridge pickups.

I've noticed I get more "cank" out of them when they're close to the same height, but not exact. The further apart they get, the less "canky" they sound.

However, I also notice when they're the most "canky", they're also the quietest overall of any setting.

Remember with strat pups (Single Coils) you can only get so close to the string before the magnetic pull causes "strat-itis".

Can you pull the pups out of the other guitar and try them? That would seriously answer whether it's the pups or not.

Steve

[jrmroxx]

I can tell you the pups are about 3-5/32 from bottom of string, should I highten them? If this does not work then I suppose I will have to shop around for some stock pups!!

[fumbler]

Thanks for the shout out.

Those pickup heights sound fine, maybe even a little too high. Is it too quiet in all 5 positions? Or just the 2 and 4? And how would you describe too quiet? Perhaps you have a wiring issue. Do all the controls work properly?

I once played a whole set with the cable plugged halfway in to the guitar. I was wondering the whole time why I had to push the gain on the amp so hard. Then I swapped guitars and plugged in properly -- WHAM!

I don't know the pickups in question but "Screaming Banshee" sure sounds like they were NOT going for a low-output vintage tone.

And we snooty guitarists call it "quack" not "twang". :cool:

[jrmroxx]

The sound is over all switch positions ,hard to describe. My favourite position (2)
sounds dull and hardly any quack, but the sound is there, just not as loud as the same setting on the stock strat, think the only way round is indeed to swap out sc plate and see what sound I get!
I'll let you know.
Jim.

[rob2001]

Can you compare outputs of all the pickups with an ohm meter? That might shed some light on things.

[jrmroxx]

Could the fact that I have a gragh tec nut fitted dampen the quack on my strat?:jo

anyone?