Does This Bother Anyone Else

[DSS3]

I know I'm overreacting, but this sort of bugs me.
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You'll have to copy and paste that last one into your browser, I can't get it to work [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Don't get me wrong, I love Kreator, and God Forbid and Dimmu Borgir have some songs I like, but I know these guys don't wire the guitar up to mix the EMG and SD neck pickup that comes stock.

What bothers me is I can't imagine why anyone would spend that kind of money on a guitar, and then turn around and gut everything but the bridge pickup? I know the guitars are quality, and they like the sound of the EMG's, possibly don't use the neck pickup, but it just seems like a huge waste of a sonic spectrum to me, to not have a neck pickup in there, expecially if it came stock that way.

Does anyone else have any little pet peeves like this? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

*EDIT* The HTML code isn't working...I wonder why? I just posted links instead.

[necrotechno]

Re: Does This Bother Anyone Else

It's possible to mix active and passive. I've never done it, I don't know the specifics of how it's done, and I don't know that these guitars you're pointing out are wired that way. But I know it can be done. Joe Perry had a Les Paul wired that way.

[DSS3]

Re: Does This Bother Anyone Else

It is possible, but I've seen 2/3 of those bands live, and they never used there neck pickups. I'm dead sure that they only hook up the bridge pickup.

[sworn_enemy]

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It doesn't bother me. If you don't use it, might as well keep it as simple as possible. Dave Mustaine has been doing the same thing for years.

[pro-fusion]

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It's possible to mix active and passive. I've never done it, I don't know the specifics of how it's done, and I don't know that these guitars you're pointing out are wired that way. But I know it can be done. Joe Perry had a Les Paul wired that way.

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You have to install an EMG PA-2 active preamp to do it, or else have each pickup go through entirely separate volume/tone controls. The PA-2 can accept both active EMG and regular passive pickups, and it gives a pretty substantial gain boost.

I don't generally bother with that because it's easier and not much more expensive to just get another EMG active pickup for the neck, though I did wire up a 650xl once with an EMG-85 and kept the stock J-200s as passives. Since the 650xl has three control pots, it was easy to swap out the the (removed) JE-1200 mid-boost circuit's level pot for an EMG volume.

[DSS3]

Re: Does This Bother Anyone Else

Right, I've mixed actives and passives before. What I'm saying is that I know these guys don't have it done, it just kind of bugs me that they waste that neck pickup.

[RacerX]

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No, just you, DSS! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

My bud Jeff from Noctuary has mixed pups in his main guitar, a Jackson Dinky.

[necrotechno]

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Me, I'd rip out the pickup entirely. Leave an empty socket, a la Malcolm Young. No need having that magnet pulling at the middle of the string's speaking length if you're not using it.

[rocksoldier]

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If you doesnt use it, you might as well just disconnect it.
I have disconnected the tone controlls on my guitars, is that also a waste? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

With that said i love the neck pickup myself, and use i A LOT [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]