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I've become a Guild devotee recently and now have a couple of T100Ds, a blonde '60 and a lovely '66 in Emerald Green. The latter is a new arrival and I had some lingering questions about the "Mickey Mouse" Guild single coil pickups that I hope are not a total rerun of other threads.
1) I can see that there aren't any adjustment screws, but is there any way I can tweak the height of the low E polepiece by forcing the magnet down a bit ?
2) I've heard and seen some pics that show caps mounted under these pickups. Does the signal pass through these caps, resulting in reduced low end according to the amount of capacitance, or is the cap wired between the output and ground, which I suppose would be like another tone cap which would throw away some highs ? If that's the deal (the caps are to tame the high end), does anybody have experience with removing the cap(s) ? This guitar has an adequate amount of high end, but if I could get a little more output from the guitar and compensate tonally by using the tone knob if I still feel the need to reduce the highs, I would rather do that.
I thought my pre-buy research had turned up an account of removing the cap and getting a hotter and more open sounding output but I would like to substantiate that further before making a decision. Actually I haven't checked under my pickups yet but I noticed the esteemed Mr. Moust posted a pic that shows this pickup ex vitro with the caps underneath so I'm thinking they are probably common.
and a bonus question 3) is there a trick to getting the knobs off the guitar, so I can shoot some contact cleaner into the pots through the top ? They have no set screws but didn't seem to want to come off and I was afraid of breaking them or making them so that they wouldn't stay on after I replaced them.
thanks and cheers
1) I can see that there aren't any adjustment screws, but is there any way I can tweak the height of the low E polepiece by forcing the magnet down a bit ?
2) I've heard and seen some pics that show caps mounted under these pickups. Does the signal pass through these caps, resulting in reduced low end according to the amount of capacitance, or is the cap wired between the output and ground, which I suppose would be like another tone cap which would throw away some highs ? If that's the deal (the caps are to tame the high end), does anybody have experience with removing the cap(s) ? This guitar has an adequate amount of high end, but if I could get a little more output from the guitar and compensate tonally by using the tone knob if I still feel the need to reduce the highs, I would rather do that.
I thought my pre-buy research had turned up an account of removing the cap and getting a hotter and more open sounding output but I would like to substantiate that further before making a decision. Actually I haven't checked under my pickups yet but I noticed the esteemed Mr. Moust posted a pic that shows this pickup ex vitro with the caps underneath so I'm thinking they are probably common.
and a bonus question 3) is there a trick to getting the knobs off the guitar, so I can shoot some contact cleaner into the pots through the top ? They have no set screws but didn't seem to want to come off and I was afraid of breaking them or making them so that they wouldn't stay on after I replaced them.
thanks and cheers