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I am actively… 😎 looking into getting a hold of an afterburner!

it should be doable. I know switching between the two is possible. Being able to blend the two would be a major improvement over just having one or the other.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio i've been gathering parts for doing a balance mod on my 90's cortocaster, fitting the xlr and 1/4" jacks on the jack plate is the hardest part of it, but the only way i can figure to do it with active is integrating a DI box.

The Pegasus pickup seems very flat, to the point that it seems a little dark. but it has clarity and good note separation, just not enough punch for me in most cases.

Especially actually on the clean just made it sound like had a light OD put on over super cleans the high gain actually had more of a difference

yeah, it seems to be a gain boost mostly. Definitely has a soft clipping limiter of some sort as part of its design. I can see that transients get cut off at a certain amplitude in the waveform when the input is clipping.

Thanks. I will check that out. I can see how you could cut some new nut slots and get a Tres Cubano out of a normal six string since you need all six tuners.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio yeah, you just need the 12 string bridge pieces and rail pickups and boom!

intelligence right here. One of the only people I have seen on here actually acknowledge this. Most guys have a collection of boost pedals, I have an EQ collection. you just set the EQ the way you want it and then use the level as a boost. Way better than most boost pedals. i'm waiting for someone to get the idea of taking something like the boss Eq200 and the Revv G8 and smash them together. a 4 cable method EQ and a 4 cable method gate in a single enclosure would be amazing. then you just throw 2 sets of inputs and outputs on it, 1 set for things you want going in the front of your amplifier and another set for things you want in your loop. that way everything is gated and EQ'd where it needs to be and I think that would simplify a lot of things for many people.

I am finding myself liking ODs with active EQs more and more. I like having the clipping circuit upfront still, but the ability to shape the mids is becoming more favorable to me. For me pickups end up being about feel and response more than actual tone. A good balance of the upper mid peak frequency with the slope of the low end roll off is what I am usually looking for and the starting point for ensuring that the pick attack and palm mutes are defined up front. Not enough peak and too gradual of a low end roll off makes for a dark and tubby sound that often feel squishy. I also tend to favor medium output pickups as they don't break up as quick and work better with any gain stage in the chain. I have been using a JHS haunting mids pedal that has a parametric mid control in the loop of my EVH Stealth with great results for recoding the amp in live setting.

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@@metalheadblues yeah. It can hooked up to any pickup with 4 lead wires.

there's probably a wiring scheme for use with single coils or alternative preamps for use with singles.

@@needsLITHIUM it is good to hear what others have tried with this. Knowing that 10k or less works well makes sense. I might have to dig out some older spares that I have kept around from other projects and see how this does. I probably won’t keep this configuration in this guitar.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio yeah 10 or less is ideal. My Ibanez is just over 10 and it sounds great, but it's pushing it. It's in that over compressed, over boosted territory you can get into with certain EMG's, or the original Blackouts, if the gain is too high. Palm mutes have this "KLUNG" sound on the pick attack, and the fundamental gets an almost fuzzed phaser-like sound to the backwash on the sustain if I leave the gain where I had it on my B.C. Rich, which has an Invader in the bridge. The gain on the amp and the volume on a distortion or OD/boost pedal has to be taken back quite a bit to compensate. Even with my Les Paul, switching to the Ibanez I have to turn the gain down by at least 1 or 2.

@@dnthrx actually, I am running drop C# on strings 1-6 and the low string is a G# on the 7th.

@@dougleydorite I kinda feel like it might be. It seems to go a bIt beyond just an active voicing. It also makes my amp settings a bit different than I am used to, even when I run active pickups. There is definitely a boosting effect, and if this were something that were able to be switched on and off, it might be more useable. SD does have a mod to wire a 2way switch using a 250k pot to make the preamp switchable, but that is another step. Ultimately, this can be a filthy tone for certain styles, but it may depend a lot on the type of pickup itself for how good it works.

@@tyrannosaurusriffs for buyers… not so much sellers. Ha ha.

@@BaritoneGoatStudiofor sure! I asked on 1 item and was like never mind. I’ll be patient. Horrible for sellers.

@@tyrannosaurusriffsyou expect them to give you full value then turn around and sell it for the same price? I’m confused what you actually wanted

@@Ottophil never said I expected full value. 60% seems a bit crazy but that’s the option they offer and I understand.

@ 60 is totally reasonable. My local shop will let you put anything on consignment for about 30% of the sale. So slightly better. They gotta make profit, and guitars hold their value better than video games? Ever tried to take last years madden game to gamestop?

@@randomguitarnote8887 Unfortunately, it is active all the time. There is a mod that uses a 250k pot to switch between the the preamp and the pickups. But it is an extra process. Fishmans are technically active all the time too, they just have different voiced EQs meant to emulate a passive tone.

@ thanks for the answer, so it possible then 🤘. I know about the fishmans being actives, just couldn’t think of a better example, I don’t really like them tbh, I much prefer Emgs when it comes to actives.

@ yeah SD has a wiring diagram on their site for hooking up a switch/push-pull using a 250k pot with the preamp.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio thanks dude 🤙.

That's what I'm contemplating doing to the 58/15LTe set in my PRS SE McCarty .594 singlecut standard. I'm gonna change the coil tap feature, to the boost instead. The pickups are great wide open. But anything at all below dimed, turns into useless drivel. I definitely wouldn't wanna give up the PAF crystalline cleans those pickups are known for. But the coil tap tones are basically useless. I'm thinking the muddy super compressed signal you have going there, is the exact opposite result I'm trying for. Those are already too high output to boost, in my opinion. That curcuit is designed for low output vintage voiced pickups. Sorry bud. But it sounds like shit to me. I have those pickups in my TE1000 Black Blast. I almost returned the guitar when I first got it. Because the Elxir coated strings and factory set up it came with. Were not complementing them pickups at all. My suggestion to you, is to do the exact opposite of what you've done. Instead of adding resistance to the curcuit, and then having to buffer the signal to maintain volume. Try wiring the pickups right to the switch, so in one position your going straight to the output jack. This will give you all the frequencies available directly from the pickup, before any regulation of the signal whatsoever. Then, you can always boost that signal out of the guitar with pedals. That's my 2 cents. Peace!

@@playthefightriffjohn843 yeah. Some underwound no name pickups would be interesting. Or even some older PAF styles.

I had the blackouts preamp installed in a Yamaha SG1300 with Spinex humbuckers. I felt it lost a bit of high end, but in general the guitar sounded more aggressive.

This would sound fucking sick in a Gretsch!…MY Gretsch. LOL

@@BaritoneGoatStudio I have one installed with some GFS pickups, including a humbucker sized P90 in the neck.

this is actually the intended use case, so like a '59 bridge and a li'l '59 or cool rails neck, phat cat, p-rails, alnico II pro, saturday night special, jazz, seth lover model, whole lotta humbucker, etc, if you stay in Duncan branded hardware.

@@ChristopherMichaels-t9q they sell the AHB-10 with two passive looking pickups with the preamp, supposedly voiced to be like the blackouts but look like passive pickups.

Thanks! That is high praise man! Taylor is so dialed in with his flow, but it still feels like a real conversation and he seems to be having fun while doing stuff. Maybe I will get to his level one day. He is a really cool dude though and gives good advice, and I think is a US west coaster like me.

@BaritoneGoatStudio Yup! He's based outta Oregon, I'm outta Seattle, us West Coast metalheads gotta stick together

the Pegasus is a bit too hot for how the preamp is intended to work, so that's probably why. 11 kOhm is probably the hottest you should run, and the Pegasus 6 string version is already pushing 12.5, and the 7 string version sits at 14.9 kOhm, well outside expected use case.

@@AlwayzTired probably not. The overall feel of the guitar is more responsive with the preamp just from being a bit hotter. But the tone does seem to just be a boosted signal. I think this idea would be cooler if there was a way to attenuate the output. There is another mod where you can make this switchable using a 250k pot.

@@BaritoneGoatStudioit definitely different. If you okay hot pickups through a boost you’ll immediately notice medium output. It’s never the same as more boost. Ever.

@@jonsierra723 it definitely punches up the output! The more I work with dialing in my amp the more I don’t really need a boost pedal!

@@BaritoneGoatStudio I’ve thought of it as a boost pedal thing in a weird sense. I don’t mind the sound of the pickups perse but I don’t like the lack of output from them. I’m used to active pickups but I like the dynamics from this pickups enough to were I won’t switch them out.

@@vanespedals1023 that is a SoCal 2 and at the time it still had a Fishman Open Core Classic. Voice two is a hot rod humbucker and it works well for most things. I did later one swap in an open core modern which is a little hotter with more bite. But really, the Argos pedal can make anything bite.

@@stefanhodgden I really like the slug! I don’t think it is as over the top on output as some active pickups, but still has the aggressive tone. It fits well with this guitar for me!

@@BaritoneGoatStudioI hoped you’d say that. I was going to put a lundgren m6 or invader in it if not. Wasn’t a fan of the impulse . The slug I ordered for $79 has the old SLUG logo. Still waiting on your video on the fuckbucker

@ the Fuckbucker actually pushes a harder signal than the slug. At least in terms of clipping my DI. It is less compressed overall though, and might be the most aggressive pickup I have owned.

Unfortunately they sold out of this one. The link in the description just takes to the Guitars Garden page now. There are more coming. This one usually pops up in batches. They have a blacked out 27” LP baritone coming at the end of the month.

It must be the winds and AWG used to get close to the JBs overall tone? Maybe. I guess technically it is branded as the “JB Rails” but it does go that extra step with the magnet swap. It would have been more interesting to see what changing just one variable would have sounded like.

It has so many options and some of my favorite tones are from amps that other companies don’t really do models of. So far I am still locked in on the $10/month price, and it is nice to just have it all. It is definitely a competitive product even with a subscription model.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio Yeah, exactly. Being a few months in, I have a few things I'd like to see added (ie. better compression options and it would be nice if they allowed all the pedals to be either before or after the amp even if it doesn't make sense) but I also love what they have added since. That being said, such desires can, and have been, alleviated by having the Amphub in the DAW.

I think the original has a bit more openness overall. It is less focused, but ends up being a bit more dynamic because of it!

@@NickySayahSina I plan to do that for sure. It actually has a real good bite for high gain so far. I will also give some recs for noise gate configuration.

@@geraldyafchak4365 they can go quick. They have an SG style still up, but not the LP. There is a matte black LP style coming at the end of the month.

@@ItFigures89 yeah I noticed that on playback. typically I don’t do that, but I figure that I was more deep in thought about what I was saying this time around. I also was using the camera mic for audio where I typically have a separate mic set up in front of me that I think I tend to use as my directional mark. Yeah… this video I was way more off into my head.

My first one has a couple of high frets. It was also one of the last batches to have nickel frets. The last two were good though with the SS. This one as I am digging in might have a small issue on the first and second frets on the treble side. Nothing I can't address, but I will go over in more detail what I find when I do my mod project video for this.

@BaritoneGoatStudio , all of my examples have stainless frets. All the high frets were pretty mild except for the 12th on one of my FFSP's and the 16th on my relic FFST. But I have all the files needed to level and recrown, so it wasn't a big deal. It's all part of the fun with these "budget" guitars. FF seems to do a good job with drying their woods. My examples have proven to be pretty stable.

I want them to find a way! I have some friend in Europe with channels who do gear stuff and they are always out of the loop with these!

@@BaritoneGoatStudio its a real shame. at this price I wouldn't have even thought about it, instant purchase.

Stained finishes would be nice too! I'm not crazy about glossy paint jobs.

@@doomzday_mediagroup end of the month they are supposed to drop a matte black 28” LP with a single humbucker, single volume knob.

​@@BaritoneGoatStudio What?! No way! Yes! I'm glad I said something. Thank you so much man. Really dig your channel too. 🤘🏼💀🖤

@ thanks man! Yeah check out the FF FB pages and their Instagram. I think those will sell quick. But all the info about it so far are on those platforms.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio Man! I just found that LP baritone you told me about! Holy shit! It's so perfect!

@@Ottophil I have always liked the sound of a dirty single coil. P90s are some of my favorite pickups. I usually run a noise gate pretty hard once the gain kicks in, but even then, the 60 cycle hum bleeds through. On stages with a lot of EMI it isn’t really doable.

@@danmorgan9795 the finish is much better in person! The pickups were so-so. I plan to go over it a bit more in the next couple weeks after I get some play time on it!