I am abomination
A week ago I ordered Seymour Duncan Blackouts for my 7 string, and yesterday I received them. I've never installed pickups before, but it seemed pretty easy from the instructions. I got to the studio after work and upon opening my guitar up, nothing exactly matched what was going on in the diagram.
So I ended up gutting the guitar and just leaving out the stock bridge pickup and the toggle switch. The stereo jack that came with the pickup didn't fit in my guitar (the original was some goofy long-ass jack), so i retrofitted it by cutting a hole in input jack access-plate on the back of the guitar.
Basically I ghetto-rigged the fuck out of it, but I got it working and it sounds so fucking awesome. Everything just sounds so much smoother. The mids coming out of my Model T just got so much more delicious. My stoked-itude level on recording the Nachos lp just went up 120%. I might still re-install the toggle switch without the neck pickup and make it into a killswitch.
I can't believe I was actually able to wake up early this morning so I can get some mixing done. I suppose it helped that when I woke up, it felt like someone was drilling into my left temple. It's gone now though. Weird.
So I ended up gutting the guitar and just leaving out the stock bridge pickup and the toggle switch. The stereo jack that came with the pickup didn't fit in my guitar (the original was some goofy long-ass jack), so i retrofitted it by cutting a hole in input jack access-plate on the back of the guitar.
Basically I ghetto-rigged the fuck out of it, but I got it working and it sounds so fucking awesome. Everything just sounds so much smoother. The mids coming out of my Model T just got so much more delicious. My stoked-itude level on recording the Nachos lp just went up 120%. I might still re-install the toggle switch without the neck pickup and make it into a killswitch.
I can't believe I was actually able to wake up early this morning so I can get some mixing done. I suppose it helped that when I woke up, it felt like someone was drilling into my left temple. It's gone now though. Weird.