Electric E strings
Lately, my E strings on my solid-body f-style mandolin are not as responsive as they used to be. Normally, I play mostly acoustic or acoustic-electric mandolins. I do have this electric made by a local luthier about 15 years ago. He passed away in 2007. He concentrated on guitars and was experimenting with this mandolin. It came out pretty good,
Anyway, originally, it had a Saga (I think) lipstick pickup. I replaced it with a Seymour-Duncan Telecaster-style pickup. All of the electronics have been replaced. Everything was fine until a few days ago. The E strings now have considerably lower volume The tone is fine. It's only the volume. Equalization and tone controls offer only minimal improvement. I'm playing through a Red-Eye preamp and a Roland AC-90A amp.
I've ordered some D'Addario nickel strings because everyone tells me they're better for electrics but I'm wondering if the pickup is going south on me.
In looking at the picture, the angle of the photo indicates the strings aren't over the pickup but they really are.
Last edited by DHopkins; Mar-14-2018 at 8:49pm.
Reason: Add'l info
David Hopkins
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