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NGD! Schecter Banshee Extreme

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rnolan:
I can recommend a SD little 59 for the neck (as I put in the Squire bullet strat). I gave it its own push/pull vol knob and wired it Series/Parallel, works really well, sounds great, at some stage I'll change the pot to be one of those press to change types as it's a bit of a pain (on a strat) to pull up the centre knob.

Samuraipanda:
Nice gitbox Dante.

Oddly enough a standard bridge one just showed up on Philly CL for $250. Same color too I think.

Kim:
That guitar is a stone cold beauty, Dante! 

The Floyd Rose Special is a lower-cost bridge by FR that's made with softer steel parts instead of the hardened-steel parts the Original features.  However, if it does the job then it does the job.  Both my bridges are JT580 "Licensed by Floyd Rose" and they work wonderfully.  (You saw the pic of me holding my guitar in the air by just the whammy bar alone and shaking the piss out of the whole thing while playing live onstage, right?)   ;)

vansinn:
I would put the lipstick in middle pos - makes the pick smooth-off just nice, and makes for more of the modern Knopfler tone, should you happen to like this, all while keeping the normal neck tone.
Ahh, and for neck pos, might I suggest a modern Wilkinson 60's style overwound pickup.
Or, if you prefer a slightly more 'buckered single coil tone, an Original Bill Lawrence 300-series dual blade.

IME, most hum issues with single pups can be handled by shielding the pup and body cavities, use shielded wires for the pups, and use proper grounding while observing not to create ground loops.
Lots of videos on the tube about this..

Dante:
I finally got a chance to fiddle around with the guitar last night into my rack. Wrote a few patches.

Cleans: Just what you'd expect, very clear and transparent sounding. I'm good with these single coils and they're not noisy. Now, they do NOT sound very Stratt-ish, or quacky. They are just clear and surprisingly warm (for single coils). I can get a good quack out of the split Humbucker though, it sounds pretty Tele like.

Crunch: I can get a fantastic Brown/Plexi sound with the Humbucker. It cleans up very nicely with picking attack and really growls with the "Metal" patch. I think Schecter knows more than me about pickups and how they wire their guitars - they're a bit more sophisticated than a simple LP or Strat config. Case in point - the tone knob is a push/pull to split the bridge PU. BUT....it does something to the single coils too. Not sure what yet, maybe parallel or out of phase?? It seems to effect the Neck PU when in the 5 position on the 5-way switch (neck PU only).  :dunno:

I'm going to keep on playing around with this thing and possibly keep the stock PUs in there (can't believe I'm saying that). I need to do some research and find out what's going on in there before I start tearing shit apart.

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