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Originally Posted by noodles
Dave, the owner of the site, fabricates his rings out of solid billets of plastic. They absolutely do not flex, bend, warp, or crack.
Not to be argumentative, but there is no sonic difference between direct and ring mounted pickups. Case in point: Mike, my co-guitarist, had enormous feedback problems with his direct mounted bridge pickup. He wound up stuffing an entire factory's worth of foam under the thing to cut down on the howl.
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Hey Noodles, thanks for the tippage and example pic, I had a good look at those, and it looks like he makes a superb product. I have some flat 1/8" matte black plastic at work that I think I'll make a similar thing - just minus the mounting holes. I will need to make a slightly larger one as well for the new 8 string (I also bought an M8 at the same time), so I'll wait til that time and make both.
The feedback resistance thing with foam insulation is only a helper, not a substitute for proper wax potting. I'm so gated on my signal that i
never get feedback anyway, so to me it's more of a solidification thing - I just hate a wobbly pickup, it bugs me.
There is no question of the
slight tonal difference between body/pickguard mounted pickups, I've directly done this test with one of my UV's, and the results, to me, sound better direct body mounted - a little tighter and more pronounced bottom end. And working full time tech in a large store, I get to install and test
a lot of pickups. After setup work, pickup swaps are the next most requested job, constantly.
BTW - nice Jackson mang...I still think your KXK V walks all over it though
