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Old 11-08-2009, 01:10 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I installed Skatterbrane Earthbranes tonight. I was gonna do it tomorrow morning but I just couldn't wait.

I wired them 50's style with CTS pots and Sprague VQs .022 and .015. I bought them secondhand so I had to extend the wiring a bit.

It's late so I could only play through Guitar Rig and GarageBand but I gotta say that they sound really good.

I'm gonna open them up tomorrow on my amps and I'll get some clips posted.

Here's a pic of my wiring job.

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Old 11-08-2009, 01:24 AM   #2 (permalink)
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What did you put them in?
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keep us posted... that looks great
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Old 11-08-2009, 08:13 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I put them in my '77 Les Paul. I'll get some clips this afternoon.
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I installed Skatterbrane Earthbranes tonight. I was gonna do it tomorrow morning but I just couldn't wait.

I wired them 50's style with CTS pots and Sprague VQs .022 and .015. I bought them secondhand so I had to extend the wiring a bit.

It's late so I could only play through Guitar Rig and GarageBand but I gotta say that they sound really good.

I'm gonna open them up tomorrow on my amps and I'll get some clips posted.

Here's a pic of my wiring job.

You are going to love them. They are so versatile and you can litterally use the tone knobs from 0 to 10. I have never played actual PAF's, but from the way people describe them, the Earthbrane's are the closest I have heard.

They are just so articulate and balanced. You hear every string. I also own a set of his Firebrane's (P90 Soapbar) and these are equally as good. I also just purchased a set of Metalbrane's that will go into a Peavey Wolfgang.

Along with the Skatterbrane's, I also love WCR pups. They have a little different tone, but they are equally dynamic.
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We wanīt soundclips, We wanīt sound clips...
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I've got to trace down a bad solder joint....crap. Like getting sand in your sunscreen.
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Old 11-08-2009, 11:20 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Ok, I uploaded a clip. I haven't found the bad solder joint so there is a tiny bit of something in the sound that's driving me nuts. I've gotta get some braided wire.

This is done on my '77 LP, SB Earthbranes neck pup, into Alesis i/o26 into Guitar Rig 3 into GarageBand. It's processed. I'll get more clips of these pups with no processing when I get the chance.

Just go to my Soundclick page to hear it.
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What a crap job I did soldering in those Earthbranes. No wonder I had at least one bad solder joint! Well. I bought some military spec wire and rewired this axe from top to bottom.

I took my time this go around and everything cleaned up nicely. I don't hear that sonic "sand" that I heard before from contaminated solder joints and everything is shielded as far as I could get it. It made a big difference.

I'll get some clips when I can. But here's a couple of pics of my work.




Also, here's a link to my wire source:

Johnswireshop.com

Silver Teflon Wire $9.50

"This is great wire to use for re-wiring most guitar pickups. It matches most guitar pickup wires in size, threads easily through the wire cutout routes inside a guitar, and the shielding provides great noise rejection. This is 15 feet of three 26 AWG wires twisted together with teflon outside insulation. The wires are silver plated copper stranded with 7 strands. The colors are white, red, and black. This is well shielded with a silver plated copper braid. This is very high quality mil. spec. wire. The outside insulation is a white teflon wrap. The OD of this wire is aprox. 0.1185 inch (3.00mm)."
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How do you like the independent volumes?
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Wow, nice chewy tone there. That's just through guitar rig?
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I like them very much. You can dial in the volume better this way. I don't know if any of you guys missed this thread but I highly recommend reading this by MLP member 5F6-A.

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I've always run my tone controls wide open but I've completely turned around after reading this thread and experimenting. I now run my tones on about 2.5 or 3 and my sound is much better.

I'm backing down the volumes as well and tweaking the amp volume up a bit. This saves that extra volume on your guitar for a boost. I'm sure most of you guys already know that but it's still news if you haven't heard it. My guitar volumes are running around 8. There is a sharp volume drop from 10 to 7 even though I'm using RS superpots.
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Thanks. Yep. You're unbanned now?

What did you do? 'Cause I wanna do it, too.
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Oh, btw, I still have a SD Alnico Pro II neck pup and a SH-15 (Custom 5) pup for sale. The Alnico II has a really good PAF sound to it and comes in at 7.34K. Get 'em while they're gettable.
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Thanks. Yep. You're unbanned now?

What did you do? 'Cause I wanna do it, too.
Yeah, I actually got banned twice in a week. No comment from me on why, but I won't do it again.... for awhile.
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That's Rock 'N Roll....
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