NGD: Black Friday Haul #1 - PRS

SillyOctpuss said:
Me too. My neck and middle share one tone and bridge uses the other. Fitting the baseplate was very different from just turning the tone down though.
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Have you ever tried it in the middle pickup? The way mine is wired the middle pickup bypasses the tone control completely, so it's a raw "blow switch" for soloing. Now I'm really intrigued with all this steel baseplate talk. It would be cool to beef up the middle pickup a little bit along with the bridge.
 
MichaelW said:
ok, I'm a little bit ashamed to admit I ALWAYS get the same flavor ice cream (when I do eat ice cream). At Baskin and Robbin it's a scoop of Pralines and Cream on top of a scoop of peanut butter/chocolate....at Bruesters is plain old vanilla chocolate chip. Every time........just not interested in anything else. Now when it comes to pickups, guitars and pedals, completely different story....I want to try every variety of YATS there is :ROFLMAO: . (Note, that I don't INTENTIONALLY build YATS, I always seem to find out after the fact that whatever overdrive I've built.....is...........a YATS....!!
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I just assume any light to medium gain overdrive with 3 knobs is yats. Safest assumption until I see a schematic
 
MichaelW said:
Ok so it goes on the bottom of fiber plate? That's it?
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Yup. The original strat plans had baseplates on all the pickups just like the tele Bridge pickup but they never made it into production. Don't get me wrong it won't fundamentally change your pickup into something else but will nudge it in the direction of a tele bridge.

Bare knuckle did a pretty decent video a good few years ago now with Nolly.

 
SillyOctpuss said:
Yup. The original strat plans had baseplates on all the pickups just like the tele Bridge pickup but they never made it into production. Don't get me wrong it won't fundamentally change your pickup into something else but will nudge it in the direction of a tele bridge.

Bare knuckle did a pretty decent video a good few years ago now with Nolly.

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Holy crap, Nolly looks so young there! He's one of those SO FREAKING TALENTED on multiple instruments it's mind boggling.
 
MichaelW said:
Have you ever tried it in the middle pickup? The way mine is wired the middle pickup bypasses the tone control completely, so it's a raw "blow switch" for soloing. Now I'm really intrigued with all this steel baseplate talk. It would be cool to beef up the middle pickup a little bit along with the bridge.
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Wouldn't take you long to try and best of all its a pretty cheap easily reversible mod.

I originally had this guitar wired with bridge and middle sharing a tone control but that messed up position 2 unless I moved the tone back up. Then I had bridge and neck with their own tone and disconnected middle but felt the middle was too bright now it wasn't being loaded down with a tone cap.

I've been on bridge having it's own control and neck/middle sharing a control for a few years now. The baseplate was the final piece of the puzzle for me and I finally realised my strat was done. It only took about 5 years to be happy with the damn thing 🤣. I'm traditionally been a tele and humbucker player who didn't really get strats because of the weedy bridge
 
SillyOctpuss said:
Wouldn't take you long to try and best of all its a pretty cheap easily reversible mod.

I originally had this guitar wired with bridge and middle sharing a tone control but that messed up position 2 unless I moved the tone back up. Then I had bridge and neck with their own tone and disconnected middle but felt the middle was too bright now it wasn't being loaded down with a tone cap.

I've been on bridge having it's own control and neck/middle sharing a control for a few years now. The baseplate was the final piece of the puzzle for me and I finally realised my strat was done. It only took about 5 years to be happy with the damn thing 🤣. I'm traditionally been a tele and humbucker player who didn't really get strats because of the weedy bridge
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Ok, watched the video, pretty interesting. I'm pretty happy with the Neck and Bridge sounds right now but I'm really intrigued with the idea of beefing up the middle "no tone load" position. One thing I'm interested in trying is to increase the output of the middle pickup so I can lower it a bit to get it out of the way of my picking. (I mentioned this when I bought the EJ set of pickups which are calibrated to be able to do this.)

Ok, rabbit hole here we go........... :ROFLMAO:
 
Big Monk said:
I did not notice a huge increase in output from the baseplate. Very marginal in fact and I have the Bridge pickup up pretty high to balance. It did make it fuller which helped it balance better.

So I would temper your expectations with a middle ground between what @SillyOctpuss and I experienced.
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I didn't get a huge increase in output either. It was just fuller and more muscular than before.
 
MichaelW said:
Ok, watched the video, pretty interesting. I'm pretty happy with the Neck and Bridge sounds right now but I'm really intrigued with the idea of beefing up the middle "no tone load" position. One thing I'm interested in trying is to increase the output of the middle pickup so I can lower it a bit to get it out of the way of my picking. (I mentioned this when I bought the EJ set of pickups which are calibrated to be able to do this.)

Ok, rabbit hole here we go........... :ROFLMAO:
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You're already rocking a really hot bridge pickup though aren't you? My bridge pickup is only 6.4k with alnico iii magnets so is a pretty weak 'vintage' output. Possibly why it benefited well from having a baseplate fitted.
 
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I've experimented with Aluminium 1.2 mm thick cut to fit over a Telecaster Bridge Pickup with the Poles showing.
Knocked the Highs right out of the Park, .6mm would have been just about Right!???
If you have a the same 2 Humbuckers, the One with the Chrome Cover Off will have more Clarity!
 
Damn Michael I love your posts. I set the bar WAY low at $300 for guitars as of late and acquired some beauties even at that price point. We won't talk about how much $$ I pour in after the fact...

Up the bar on the strings and jump on GHS Boomer 11's. I fight with them a lot but I have a tendancy to put a death grip on the neck in an audience situation and there's little chance in hell I'll over-bend an 11 :). They're consistent as all get out and they like all pickups.
 
Ok, you guys are all enablers.....(or maybe I'm so easily influenced.... :ROFLMAO: )

I ordered a steel baseplate, gonna try it on the middle pickup on my red Strat and see if it makes a difference. Still waiting on a brass trem block for that guitar and do the final set up, there's one high fret I need to knock down. I'll do it all at the same time.

And @Big Monk, I talked to Wolfe and ordered a set of Legends with a 5% underwind....that 25% off coupon code makes them very reasonable for a booteek pickup. I'm thrilled with the P90 I got from him in my LP Junior. Really looking forward to trying his Legends.

Sooooo.....stay tuned for a pickup update on the SE 245:)
 
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