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Re: bloke, the electronics expert 🤣
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 4:26 pm
by bloke
Of course the idea of two pickups on any type of guitar is basically the "sul tasto" vs. "sul ponticello" (acoustical, not electronic) effects.
These flat wounds are sounding good and are vibrating true, but - if you and I haven't croaked by the time these strings need changing - maybe I should unbolt the neck when the strings are off, send you the guitar body, and have you do to mine what you did to the other person's.
...or - if it's less than a one-hour operation - maybe you could do it here on one of your trips south to visit your relatives when you're dropping your tuba off for servicing...(??)
@tadawson
Re: bloke, the electronics expert 🤣
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 7:33 pm
by bloke
Oh. He's going to replace all of them...
Some people on the internet claim (as everything on the internet is true, of course) that when they are tested, the ones that are well within specs are sold at the highest prices with the most respected name brands on them and the ones that are barely in specs or drift a little bit outside are the ones that are really cheap to buy with either no name or some unknown name on them.
I have no idea whether that's true. There's stuff like that which is claimed about all sorts of things.
My best guess is that people such as yourself test them before they are installed.
me? I have a crummy soldering iron - as well as a nice one somewhere, and I have some rosin core solder with those... But I don't have any idea where they are, and I don't want to try to swap those things out myself.
I used to do a little bit of soldering of electronics when I was a kid, but it wasn't on transistor boards.
Re: bloke, the electronics expert 🤣
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2026 7:40 pm
by tadawson
Spec on caps is typically +/- 20% . . . so not sure that argument carries any validity.
Quality more affects leakage, ESR, and lifespan . . .
And if your Jazz is as quiet as you say, not sure I'd want to alter it if it is still stock. No amout of shielding will quiet a single coil pickup . . . justnwhat is picked up otuerwise. (And the one I did was better, but still noisy in that venue . . .)
(And just giving you grief, since about the only similarity I see between instrument soldering and electroic, is that they both melt metal with heat, and that's about it. . . . having said that, I do have a Smith Little Torch (and others), but nothing expendable enough to play with it on . . .)