Repair and new PUP help!

[GuitarMike]

Hey Guys,

I'm new to this forum, and I'm hoping u can help me with my problem.

1) I've got a S470 and the bridge has slipped forward on the left side. There is a bit of extra GAP in the front of the hole that the posts go into. (did that make any sense to any1? not sure I understood it! )

2) What pups would you stick in that guitar (I'm fairly partial to dimarzio's)

Thanx VM

Mike

[G_urr_A]

1. No idea on that one.

2. Well, what type of sound are you going for? I'll just go with my "standard advice" in this question. Either EMG 81+81 (or 85) or EMG 60 + Seymour Duncan LiveWire HeavyMetal. However, these are pickup combos are what I like, and I play metal, so tell us what you want and we can perhaps give you some better advice.

[PaulNeeds]

1) I've got a S470 and the bridge has slipped forward on the left side. There is a bit of extra GAP in the front of the hole that the posts go into.

Sounds like you may need to pull the post, drill out to the size of the hole + gap, then fill with some nice hard dowelling and redrill to the size of the post

Oh, and welcome!

[Scott Rosenberger]

Sounds like you may need to pull the post, drill out to the size of the hole + gap, then fill with some nice hard dowelling and redrill to the size of the post

Oh, and welcome!

What he said

[westhemann]

i think an 85 at the bridge would be better than an 81 because the s series is notoriously thin toned.if you want to stay passive duncan makes the jb which is excellent for the bridge and take your pick for the neck.maybe a duncan custom.

[krazyderek]

dimarzio steve's special, tone zone, or set of PAF pro's, or a fred in the bridge,

[Saber]

I have an S540LTD (H-S-H pickup configuration). It's a mahogany body so it was a bit dark-sounding so I recently put brighter pickups than the original IBZ USA pickups (BTW, those pups were made by DiMarzio) .

I put a FRED in the bridge position and I'm really happy with it ( but I have to confess that I'm a Satch fan). Distorted it gives nice crisp lead tones, and even full chords are not muddy. It has a pretty well balanced frequency response so using a wah gives you a really good sweep. If you read the description on the DiMarzio site, that's pretty much what I experience with it. The Evolution Bridge pickup seems to have the same frequency response as the Fred but with a higher output.

I have a Fast Track 1 in the middle positon which is snappier than the Fast Track 2 that I replaced (the Fast Track 2 is more suited for bridge position). I'm happy with that one. I definitely didn't like the noise of the original IBZ single coil.

I wanted a more bluesy single coil sound in the neck position so I put a Humbucker From Hell there. Clean, it has a nice bright single coil-ish sound with added bottom but would not be mistaken for a genuine single coil. Distorted, it gives that nice "woman tone" through my setup. Overall, it's not all that I was hoping for but my expectations for it were a bit too high. It is an improvement over the original pickup, however.

Overall, they're outputs are pretty well balanced which is one reason that I went for that combination. I've only had them for a few weeks so I still have to experiment a bit with pickup heights. It also depends a lot on what kind of sound you want and what equipment you play it through.