New to Floyd, Need a pickup.

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lower your guitar volume to 8.5ish, go into a clean OD. Wicked Awesome no new pickup needed!
The stock neck pickup is fantastic too, once wired up. You may need to put something in underneath to lift it up a tad
 
crankyrayhanky said:
lower your guitar volume to 8.5ish, go into a clean OD. Wicked Awesome no new pickup needed!
The stock neck pickup is fantastic too, once wired up. You may need to put something in underneath to lift it up a tad
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I’m sorry but there’s just no way I’m relying on doing that all the time to get a sound I like. Especially as at a little less than full on, this particular pickup is worse😂
I’ve heard good things about the neck SC.
 
IDK, I think it is the perfect pickup. Not sure how nudging a dial is a chore lol
Go get some bare knuckles
 
skoora said:
I wonder if the Black is good for a Floyd guitar as they say it’s a little darker than the white, in regards to the plinky artifacts. It seems spec wise the White is like a 78 and the Black a Duncan Custom Custom? What guitar do you have the Black in?
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It's in a 1980s-something Charvel Strat that was converted to a Floyd and Hum/Sing/Sing configuration. The Black sounds great in there but honestly, the Duncan Custom Custom sounded just as good if not a little better. The Black (at least in that guitar) is brighter than the Duncan CC.
 
Fuck…I’m taking a bit of a left turn in it and possibly making it a D or C# standard guitar. Threw on some 11-52’s but they’re a tad too much. Maybe back to a 11-50. Not use to this longer scale length. Hoping for a pickup that could do double duty of A440 and this. Is the Alnico 2 in a 78 going to be too spongy in the lows? Thinking I need at least a IV or V magnet to handle the low tuning.
 
@tallcoolone is right: The Norton is an all around badass pickup. I'll add that I think the Norton is fantastic in parallel mode as well...it works great in parallel by itself, and it's quack city when Norton bridge in parallel is combined with a Strat pickup in the middle!
Steve Blucher told me years ago that people had been asking him to design a pickup that was in between a Tone Zone and a FRED, so he created the Norton. I'm surprised that it's not much more popular. It deserves to be.
 
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