mmmguitar Thanks, much appreciated! Many of my session musician friends had told me over the years that an EQ pedal, or two, was the real champion on their pedalboard; now I finally understand why. I hope you put up a post/examples, I think it's a great topic rarely discussed. I may end up swapping...

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Gather 'round kiddos, it's time for sound samples! mmmguitar mentioned that he lowered his pickups more by taking out the rubber pad below each pickup, and then he felt the pickups had a more "open" sound. I figured I would try that and document it for anyone else who might be interested. ...

mmmguitar I'll make sure to post pics & details on the introductions page. I'd like to put up some audio recordings of any pickup changes/tweaks so others can hear some of the differences as well. That's a very good point about the preamp bypass, again something I never even considered possible...

mmmguitar thanks a lot for all that, I really appreciate the in-depth answer! I used to own a few Parker's and never liked the Gen1 Dimarzios as well as the Duncan's, and years ago I regretfully sold them having never known you could change their height, modify them, or even swap them out. But afte...

@mmmguitar That's really interesting that you liked the Gen1 pickup once you took out the pads to lower them a bit. Can you describe how they sounded once you did that? Cheers!