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hello, could any one you technical people tell me how I can manually increase the output of one of my pickups?


Originally Posted by boulder4112hello, could any one you technical people tell me how I can manually increase the output of one of my pickups?I guess what you can do...and boy, it's easy to **** up and break the coil...is solder some (42?) AWG copperwire onto the white lead (finish) of either of the coils. It'd involve desoldering the 4-conductor or single shielded wire, unscrewing the baseplate, and then soldering on the additional wire. From there I guess you could manually add some staggered winds to the coil and thus increase the resistance. Then you'd just solder on another bit of white insulated wire and put it all back together again.

If you're nervous about it (I would be, personally) you can send it to the factory and they'll perform the mod for you.

Yeah, doing this is sort of like soldering hair .. You need way better eyes that I have to do this or some good magnifiers ..

Depending on what kind of magnet thats already in the pickup you can do a magnet swap. A ceramic magnet will give you the most output. That is, if it isnt already using a ceramic. It will raise your output but, If it does not have a ceramic in it, it will also change the tone.

Or you could try to install a output booster. That'll need a 9V battery.

Personally I don't think adding a few windings it's a good idea. The way you wind a pickup it's the more important fact in the tone and the quality of the output. If you are experienced and have the propper tools that could be done. Otherwise I'll be easier (and probably cheaper) to ask for a custom rewing in the SD custom shop.

I'd go with a Duncan pickup booster.

Ryan

set it closer to the strings?

Who makes the internal (guitar) pickup booster? Where to buy?

Guitar Electronics sells a version that installs in the guitar, or you can buy it as a pedal.

Ryan