RWRP middle pickup question

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I think Beagle has a few things to try. It's almost impossible to diagnose something like this without the guitar in hand.
 
Thanks for all the replies and ideas, y'all. I've been super busy and haven't had a chance to look at it again, yet, but I will and will report my findings.
 
WADDA DOPE!
So, I just finished wiring up my new Strat build. As always, before I set the neck, it took the wired body and plugged it into my amp. SOP, right? Check for buzz. Check for hum. Check the wiring. So I'm sitting there, WITH A FREAKING SCREWDRIVER. And then... DOH!

My sincere apologies for being "that guy". :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::spank::spank::spank:
 
I have never liked the reverse wound middle pickup on fender strat pickuo sets sets.
The tone is not as good as it is with traditionally woud sets, warts (60 cycle hum) and all.
If 60 cycle hum is unbearable but you want the best tone....get a noise gate instead of a RWMP
 
jimistone said:
I have never liked the reverse wound middle pickup on fender strat pickuo sets sets.
The tone is not as good as it is with traditionally woud sets, warts (60 cycle hum) and all.
If 60 cycle hum is unbearable but you want the best tone....get a noise gate instead of a RWMP
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You mean in position 2 and 4, where you have those sort of in-between "quack" sounds? I love those sounds, and as a guy with a Hendrix-themed username I'm really surprised you don't too.
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
You mean in position 2 and 4, where you have those sort of in-between "quack" sounds? I love those sounds, and as a guy with a Hendrix-themed username I'm really surprised you don't too.
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2 and 4 are my personal favorite strat positions.
Number 4 was Rory Gallagher’d favorite position.
:thumbs up:
 
Unfortunately I’m pretty sure they’re claiming that they hear some difference when that middle pickup is RWRP compared to one in the same position which isn’t. This is of course complete bullshit.
 
"They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are a little dicier." - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)

Off topic, but absolutely true (y)
 
ashcat_lt said:
Unfortunately I’m pretty sure they’re claiming that they hear some difference when that middle pickup is RWRP compared to one in the same position which isn’t. This is of course complete bullshit.
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If you're playing at a venue with a lot of neon, fluorescents, and other lousy noise, it makes sense to have an RWRP in the mid.
As for playing in your bedroom, or jamming with friends, it makes no difference at all.

At the end of the day, the only person it matters to is the player. There really is no need to get bent out of shape about it. Nobody is gonna change their mind based on your opinion. IMHO.
 
Old Music Guy said:
"They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are a little dicier." - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)

Off topic, but absolutely true (y)
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I picked up Infinite Jest for the first time in ages - the current political environment is making a story featuring American experialism and a forced land gift of much of New Englad to Canada in return for the perpetual rights to use it as a toxic waste dumping ground, negotiated by US President Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner, set in the near future after the advent of Subsidized Time so the events happen mostly in Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland, Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment, and Year of Glad feel, well, very timely.

But, it also made me realize I got the quote slightly wrong - it should be "quite a bit dicier," and I'll go fix that. 😆

Beyond that, as I'm googling to make sure I've gotten it right, this was the motto of a youth tennis secondary academy in a fictitious part of Boston, and the original is Latin: "Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est." There's a footnote that then goes on to translate it, except Google is telling me the translation provided isn't actually right; it should be more to the effect of "they can kill you, but they can't eat you, which is an injustice." DFW being DFW, this is almost certainly an intentionally incorrect translation, which adds a whole layer of mirth to the story. 🤣
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
"they can kill you, but they can't eat you, which is an injustice." -- "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are a little dicier."
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This is interesting to me insofar as each quote, can have two contradictory meanings.
"R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273, DC, is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent throughout the common law world that necessity is not a defense to a charge of murder."
In this case shipwrecked sailors, including the Captain, murdered a dying crew member and ate him out of necessity. The Captain was charged with, and convicted of murder.
In the context of the "injustice" quote, it would have been an injustice NOT to use the dead sailor for the benefit of the survivors.
In the context of the "dicier" quote, it was unjust, as the Crown decided, to USE said sailor for the benefit of the survivors.
No real reason for this post other than I love a conundrum. 8-)
 
Old Music Guy said:
This is interesting to me insofar as each quote, can have two contradictory meanings.
"R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273, DC, is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent throughout the common law world that necessity is not a defense to a charge of murder."
In this case shipwrecked sailors, including the Captain, murdered a dying crew member and ate him out of necessity. The Captain was charged with, and convicted of murder.
In the context of the "injustice" quote, it would have been an injustice NOT to use the dead sailor for the benefit of the survivors.
In the context of the "dicier" quote, it was unjust, as the Crown decided, to USE said sailor for the benefit of the survivors.
No real reason for this post other than I love a conundrum. 8-)
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I need to think about how this could fit in as a minor plot point (it's a tossed off line, really, the old motto for the school that the protagonist, a 17 year old tennis phenom, that his father founded).

But, the best I've got on having only learned about the mistranslation this morning and then not giving it much thought since is this - Hal's father was, in addition to a laundry list of other notable accomplishments very relavent to the plot but not really here, was an increasingly no-longer-functioning alcoholic, and after the probable completion of one of his last film products, committed suicide in the family's kitchen by, with the aid of some creativity with a hacksaw, sticking his head in a microwave, packing it with aluyminum foil, and turning it on high. Then 12-year-old Hal was the one who found him. His family sent him to a grief therapist after that, and Hal, a brilliant, brilliant student and innate people pleaser, found himself unable to figure out what this therapist needed to hear from him in order to determine he was processing appropriately, and the whole process started to push him towards a breakdown. Very long story short, Hal eventually decided to come at this from the standpoint of a practitioner and not a patient, and staged this elaborate breakdown where one day he lost his cool at the therapist, satarts yelling at him about how he never wanted any of this, never wanted be the one to find him, and that, yelling now at the top of his lungs, it was absolutely not his fault that... and stops and then in a small voice finishes, "that I was hungry," and finally confesses the first thing he thought when he walked into the house that night was that something smells delicious. He was pretty much absolved of any need for further therapy on the spot.

But, the mistranslation of the motto DOES fit in rather nicely, in that context. 🤣
 
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