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by chuwi
Wed Oct 27, 2010 2:28 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: mim duo sonic... replacing pickups
Replies: 11
Views: 8758

guess I'll start searching for a tex mex strat set or one of those old mim ones.
thank you a lot for your help.

I already had upgraded it with a toronado bridge and gotoh tuners. With the new pickups it's gonna be sweet!
next I'm going for a blacktop JM or classic player deluxe tele with tremolo :)
by chuwi
Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:23 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: mim duo sonic... replacing pickups
Replies: 11
Views: 8758

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thank you all! I should have described a little better the buzzsaw concept haha. It's just that this duo sonics have a particular tone, probably because of the higher output bridge pickup. It's strat tone but a LOT hotter (compared side to side to American Strat standard), and has this kind of raw s...
by chuwi
Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:06 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: mim duo sonic... replacing pickups
Replies: 11
Views: 8758

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mustang pickups (65 RI) are really cheap and are reverse wound, so it would be easy to buy and install one of those. Can't be worse than the duo stock pickups, i guess ?

please any ideas are welcome
by chuwi
Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:47 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: mim duo sonic... replacing pickups
Replies: 11
Views: 8758

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seen: SD antiquity, Lindy Fralin's, curtis novak, Pickup Whiz (all these are too expensive) some GFS hot strat set (not sure if these would work with the reverse wound thing) what about getting some 65 or 69 RI mustang pickups? not as hot as the stock ones though, but fairly cheap any other ideas, o...
by chuwi
Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:36 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: mim duo sonic... replacing pickups
Replies: 11
Views: 8758

mim duo sonic... replacing pickups

The neck pickup on my 93 mim Duo died a year ago. I'm looking for a replacement so I can make a little upgrade without loosing the pernonality of the guitar. It's always have a buzzsaw like sound on the bridge position (a LOT hotter than a Strat for example), with the middle being quite interesting,...
by chuwi
Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:54 am
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: Duo-Sonic pickups
Replies: 12
Views: 7962

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thanks everybody for your help !.... I've been lurkin around and you definitly have some really nice guitars here! I guess is a good idea to start with the multimeter, to get a reference of the stock pickups. Thinking about the Jaguar's .. -and this is just guessing- does it cause any trouble those ...
by chuwi
Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:46 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: Duo-Sonic pickups
Replies: 12
Views: 7962

Duo-Sonic pickups

Hi, I have a 93 MIM Duo-Sonic and I want to replace the stock pickups. Actually, I really like the pickups, but from one day to another the neck pickup started to work intermittenly. I took the guitar to a tech, and found out it is was dead. Now I'm going to buy some new ones, replacing both. The th...