More Q-tuner happiness (pic + clip)

[damigu]

i threw together a quick recording with the neck pickup clean. it's the q-tuner high Z (15kOhms).

http://home.earthlink.net/~torturemachine/what_do_necks_sound_like.wma

1/ first part has the tone knob all the way down. very tight and thick sound, great for jazz/blues use.
the music i played is the lead/solo/melody/whatever-you-want-to-call-it for a short instrumental i wrote.

2/ second part has the tone knob all the way open. still very warm and full sounding. great for clean use in general.
this is part of a song my friend wrote about 10 years ago.

(ignore the fret buzz and imprecise tuning--these strings are getting *VERY* worn and behaving quite sloppily)

the only downside i'm finding to these q-tuner pickups is that in picking up everything with absolute clarity, they also put your mistakes on display. in the first part, you can clearly hear it whenever my hand mistakenly brushes another string.

[MerlinTKD]

um.... WOW!!

That sounds fantastic! I'm really curious now how that bridge will sound with some really nasty, heavy distortion...

Originally Posted by damigu

the only downside i'm finding to these q-tuner pickups is that in picking up everything with absolute clarity, they also put your mistakes on display.

Obviously not for me, then

[Apophis]

sounds really interesting

[Drew]

Interesting... very piano-like, these will probably be popular with the ERG guys.

[damigu]

Originally Posted by MerlinTKD

um.... WOW!!

That sounds fantastic! I'm really curious now how that bridge will sound with some really nasty, heavy distortion...

thanks!
i was going to make some distorted clips of the bridge as well, but my friend's POD went AWOL just before the weekend (airlines lost his luggage--i'm sure they'll find it in a few days but it's still frustrating/worrisome [more for him than me]).
i just don't have a rig that yields good distorted sounds right now so i'm wholly reliant on his POD in order to make clips like that.

i like the super-Z bridge pickup a lot, no doubt. but the real surprise was the high-Z in the neck position. i never expected it would sound so much along the lines of what i've always wanted out of neck pickups. i took a gamble on getting it for the neck position and scored a jackpot.
i like it so much that i'm considering a high-Z for the neck position of one of my 6 stringers.

[damigu]

EDIT: oops, double-post.

[eegor]

These are becoming more and more appealing to me. I really love the way these sound.

[CAPTAIN SARG]

Originally Posted by eegor

These are becoming more and more appealing to me. I really love the way these sound.



Good, cuz I want these in my guitar.

same here im plan to get a s7320 and ive heard the pickups suck

[BigPhi84]

Did you have to route the body to get them to fit?

[damigu]

Originally Posted by BigPhi84

Did you have to route the body to get them to fit?

indeed i did, home-fries.

i took both cavities about 1/4" deeper. 1/8" would have sufficed to make them fit, but i like to have more up/down adjustment capability so i can really dial in the sweet spot and in case i change my preferences in the future.

[ZeroSignal]

Huh, I guess I'm the only person on earth who thinks that these don't sound good on record.

I mean, it's not your playing at all. It's just every time I hear them they sound so weak with very little sustain and no mojo at all. No soul.

[LEWY7777777]

Originally Posted by damigu

indeed i did, home-fries.

i took both cavities about 1/4" deeper. 1/8" would have sufficed to make them fit, but i like to have more up/down adjustment capability so i can really dial in the sweet spot and in case i change my preferences in the future.

That is very smart because with these things hieght adjustment is an absolute necessity to get them sounding just right , if not it will be very very wrong after all it uses one of the most powerful magnetically charged materials in existance for pickup use.