HOW TO IMPROVE PICKUP SOUND [Fender Texas Special]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ม.ค. 2023
- I decided to conduct an experiment with my friend Matvey Gubko. His 1963 Stratocaster Customshop required tuning of the sound characteristics of the pickups. This guitar is fitted with a Fender Customshop Texas Special pickup set. These pickups are slightly overwound and have a pronounced fat midrange that makes the frequency spectrum narrow. We will fix this now. We decided to unwind some wire from each single coil. You will see the result of the experiment at the end of this video in this video.
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Looking over at the texas specials in my old 80s Strat now...
*This is AMAZING brother ! This is EXACTLY issue with my Fender stratocaster '59 limited edition custom shop - with hand wound texas special pickups... Great job !!!*
Fascinating what a couple hundred turns of wire can do on a coil. Fine work
Thank you. On strat coil is about 9-10k turns
Want to know a easier hack? Just lower the pickups. Here’s what I did.
With the last fret on the low E and High E pressed down set the pickup height to 8/64ths on the low E string and 6/64ths on the high E. 👌 huge tone improvement. Hear my videos for tone demonstration.
Doing this brought the best out of these handwound pickups in my fender custom shop SRV Relic Stratocaster.
Cheers!
That is the first set of Texas Specials I've ever liked. I always wondered how Gibson made their Epi Probuckers sound so bad. Now I know. They overwind the pickups. Muddy is the English term commonly used to describe Probuckers/Mudbuckers. Great video. спасибо
Thank you. Yes, you are absolutely right. Bursbuckers pro are heavily overwound, which makes them muddy. Resistance allways says about number of wire tutns. One time when I did a neck PAF clone for Brian Ray's Les Paul, he asked me to make it "hotter" - about 8 kOhm, to match the original double white PAF. I dissuaded him, because it will not affect the volume, but it will kill all the musicality. I made a 59 PAF 7.3 kΩ clone for it with an loud A4 magnet and it turned out to be just what he needed. Brian was very pleased.
@@8BombCustom To me hotter pickups are like tone wood. Just a way for guitar/pickup companies to sell more product. If you can start with a good clean tone a screw driver, EQ, and effects can get you most any tone you want. Back in the 80's it was common to see a wall of Marshall's on stage. Alot of times back stage you could find a Fender twin with a microphone. The Fender was providing the guitar sound. The Marshall's were fake or not connected to anything.
@@steveeckert8396 Damn, that is mind blowing.
Mudbuckers, Bravo, sir.
Excellent job, Sir. I can hear an improvement even on Ipad speakers.
Thank you
Strangely enough, it breaks up more after the mod, more sparkle too! DC resistance not always corresponds to how hard it drives the amp. Good stuff!
Great video, great information! And your English translations are much better now you are doing them! Hope you have a great 2023!
Thank you very much!
Sounds amazing !
Damn dude, youre the mad scientist ive been looking for! im about to watch every one of your videos
Thank you
Interesting - less winds made him play slower! Im off now to wind some 20.000 turn pickups for myself!!
Brilliant, those sounds fantastic !
Thank you
Very interesting video, once again. Congratulations!
Thank you
THANKS, MAN!
This is brilliant 👏👏👏
Thank you
very nice vid. It would be great to get more detailed info, as in resonant peak, henries, capacitance. I do hear the change though and it's a good idea.
Well done brother
Excellent video.
Thank you
You are a mad Genius and love you for this ! Cheers from Quebec !
Many thanks 😁
Very nice!
Thank you
What pickup height would you advice on the texas specials?
Love your video and content. My partner said you should also do ASMR voice over!!!! Love your accent and your videos!
how can you increase the impedance when removing wire from the coil and it appears to be brighter. Am I right?
Texas Specials are my favorite pickups, your work is amazing and thank you for another interesting video. Rokandrollforall
Thank you
Difference, but I would say it’s a difference that could be tweaked with EQ in my opinion. Still a really cool experiment though
They definitly sound more straty after the mod. Used to have texas Specials in my strat, never liked them much
could this trick be done, for example, on mexico strat singles, they are ceramic, have 6.7-4K resistance,
Maybe. You can try.
Excellent video. A question. Is it strictly necessary to use a heat gun?. If this tool is not used, could the wire not be uncoiled?. Thanks for answering.
thank you. You need to heat the wax or the wire can broken. You can use hairdryer.
@@8BombCustomThank you.
@@8BombCustomPlease, another question. When unwinding the wire, is there no risk that any of the turns are in direct contact with the starting wire and could break it?. Thank you.
I did a similar mod. The pickups are very high output for single coils so I lowered them to keep all of good characteristics but by slightly lowering the output it cleans up some of the midrange while still keeping the low end these pickups have.
Я также делал в прошлом году с корейскими синглами )))были под 7ком все,думаю дай отмотаю прозрачнее хотел звук ,но немного перемотал когда грел феном не учёл этот момент ,когда остыли стали 5,4 -5,5 -5,3 вообщем немного накосячил но звук реально более чище стал) конечно с такими как ваши звучками я бы точно не рискнул)))😅
Damn they sound WAY better after the mod.The texas specials that came with my roadhouse strat are by far the worst pickups I've used, so bad that I can't use the guitar in a band setting due to the sound just disappears in the mix, was thinking of buying a squier strat to take the pickups from it and put them in my Fender but after this I might try to unwound them
If a guitar doesn't fit in a mix, it's only partly a pickup problem. This is mainly influenced by the wood of the guitar. The pickup only transmits the guitar's vocals as a microphonic sound. Bad or good. But the foundation always plays a leading role.
Just lower the pickup. I love a Texas special in the bridge position, heaps of presence.
I would melt the thin wire. I just know. It doesn't take much heat and the pickup is ruined. Recommend only experienced solder user's here.if you have to do it, practice on a few that you don't mind killing.
The dullness is gone and air is added! Congratulations.❤
Thank you
This is the exact reason I use custom shop 69's. Just measured out at 5.2k neck, 5.32k middle and 5.36k for the bridge. They list them as 5.8k, but they're all in the 5.2-5.6k range. Different wire material. That's why all the underwound 50s pickups sound so thin. Different wire type. That darker wire and DC resistance will get you right where you wanna be...
I would bet this is a very light body to produce that sound.
It's not a particularly light guitar or even a custom shop. But she sounds very good.
did yo do some pickups winding outside Russia?
I'm not russian and not inside russia.
Please tune up my friends
Thank you
I think less wax did the job
Hey brother- love your channel. You should change the name of your shop if you want to do more business in America. Simply because a lot of people are gonna be afraid to type that word into their device. You know, that word that you can’t say on an airplane? Lol
Thank you. Maybe. 🤔
@@8BombCustom I personally wanted to check your website out to see if you sold guitars or what but I wasn’t gonna type that in 😂
We have such a saying: to be afraid of wolves - do not go into the forest. 😉
If you didn’t set the pickups to the absolute same distance from the strings, this experiment has no sense…
Try it
honestly after unwound them sound clearly more distorted and louder/distorted (LESS CLEAR), I would NOT recommend this experiment....by the way, you guys forgot clear riffs before unwound them, that was extremely important..... experiment failed, sorry