Muy Grande Specs. [Archive] - Robinlovers Forum

WaltDraper

01-24-2009, 02:23 PM

Hi!
Robert at The Custom Shop in Austin, TX recommended that i fill one of my strats with Rio Grandes. I went with the "Mid-Bottom" set (2 Talls and a 1/2 Breed). Awesome! I love 'em! :hail:

Now i am fixing-up another guitar. I'm thinking about mixing 1 Muy and 1 Halfbreed. Your website pictures seem to show that the Muy's pole-pieces are larger in diameter than the Tall's and 'Breed's. Is this correct? Just curious, but very interested in that kind of stuff :D.

And, if i pop a Muy in the bridge position of a Fender Mustang, and a Breed at the neck, will they coincide in power-sound output when i run them in phase and out of phase?

I'm guessing that i won't need to "tap" the Muy, 'cuz the Mustang's switches can change the outputs in/out of phase, . . . or is that in/out of series? . . . or are they the same thing? . . . or . . . Got Clarification?:confused::o

COOL! :cool: Thanks! :hail:

Smitty

01-24-2009, 02:46 PM

Howdy,

You'll probably love the halfbreed/muy combo. I have a guitar with a Halfbreed in the neck and a Muy Grande 'bucker in the bridge... I have the Muy Grande with a coil tap so that that I can get that out of phase sound between the pickups as well... That'll probably be the scariest Mustang you've ever heard...

Smitty

WaltDraper

01-24-2009, 03:09 PM

Thanks for your reply, Smitty.

-But ARE the Muy pole-pieces larger than the other pickups' polepieces?
-And is it a waste not to tap a Muy using it's own separate switch (other than the Mustang's original switches)?
-Can your guitar with the Muy and 1/2 Breed serve more than 1 class of music with that set-up (is it ONLY a hard rocking guitar? What about Hot Blues?).

Thanks for your time and input!

Smitty

01-24-2009, 03:50 PM

Oh sorry, yes the Muy Grande pole pieces are bigger. Those pickups just sound BIG. is you swapped the halfbreed in your Strat for a Muy, you'd say "it's bigger."

On your Mustang project, are you talking about a Muy Grande single coil or bucker?? (I assumed single coil...) If it's the bucker, by all means tap it...put in a push/pull tone knob and be done...

I may have a mustang wiring diagram somewhere... lemme look tonight.

The halfbreed/muy combo will still have great cleans and will definitely be a hot blues guitar. Certainly not a one-trick pony by any stretch...

WaltDraper

01-27-2009, 01:13 PM

Smitty,
Thanks for the insite on the Muy-Halfbreed sounds.
Yeah, I'm planning on using a single coil Muy.
I do very much appreciate your looking around for a Mustang wiring diagram!
Thanks again!

WALT

lougio

05-04-2009, 08:02 PM