Newark Street LB-1 in Gad's Ramblings

[F30]

The amount of knowledge I have acquired on this forum and links to information about Guilds is nothing short of amazing.
I started doing a search about the Anti-Hum and the reissue Newark Street LB-1 and found this Goldmine of information.

Guild Anti-Hum and LB1 Mini-Humbucker Pickups | GAD's Ramblings

One of my most popular articles is Guild Full-Sized HB1 and SD1 Pickup Variations where I put into writing all the nitpicky details about those pickups that I’ve learned over the years. I often get people asking me about the Guild “mini humbuckers” from the 1960s and thanks to a recent project...

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The remedy of the fix - if you don't like the output of your Newark LB-1 equipped guitar - is stated.
The spacing issue of pickup pole pieces is mentioned too - so flipping the neck to bridge and bridge to neck pickups is not really an option
especially for those of us who like things to sound and look right.

Not sure if this is still an issue 'today' now that Cordoba Music Group has owned Guild since 2015.
You would hope they would correct this if it is indeed an issue on the new models.

This only came up as I was looking at maybe selling a few things to pickup a Starfire VI.
Haven't played any newer Guild with LB-1's so I started reading and searching the net.

 

[F30]

From this clip they sound pretty amazing:



Then again this guy probably could make anything sound pretty sweet.

 

[F30]

This is an interesting comparison of the LB-1 to the Gibson and Gretsch

 

[GAD]

The problem still exists, and to my knowledge Guild has refused to even admit it let alone fix it.

 

[F30]

That's a bummer for sure. But I guess with a bit of adjustment you can get things a tad more reasonable.
But the rewind of the bridge maybe the best route.
But watching the clip of Trevor again seems that particular guitar has been setup to mask that issue.

 

[GGJaguar]

@Default did a neat trick of swapping coils, but the pix are no longer there. That post is HERE.

 

[Default]

I am trying to get less work at work. I still have the pics and will try to get them up onto LTG.

 

[walrus]

The amount of knowledge I have acquired on this forum and links to information about Guilds is nothing short of amazing.
I started doing a search about the Anti-Hum and the reissue Newark Street LB-1 and found this Goldmine of information.

Guild Anti-Hum and LB1 Mini-Humbucker Pickups | GAD's Ramblings

One of my most popular articles is Guild Full-Sized HB1 and SD1 Pickup Variations where I put into writing all the nitpicky details about those pickups that I’ve learned over the years. I often get people asking me about the Guild “mini humbuckers” from the 1960s and thanks to a recent project...

www.gad.net

The remedy of the fix - if you don't like the output of your Newark LB-1 equipped guitar - is stated.
The spacing issue of pickup pole pieces is mentioned too - so flipping the neck to bridge and bridge to neck pickups is not really an option
especially for those of us who like things to sound and look right.

Not sure if this is still an issue 'today' now that Cordoba Music Group has owned Guild since 2015.
You would hope they would correct this if it is indeed an issue on the new models.

This only came up as I was looking at maybe selling a few things to pickup a Starfire VI.
Haven't played any newer Guild with LB-1's so I started reading and searching the net.

Just making sure you know this "goldmine" is from our own GAD, "The One Who Reviews", and who also does much, much more!

walrus

 

[F30]

I thought the pole spacing was different on the neck and bridge pickups for the Newark series - which made the switch rather odd from neck to bridge and bridge to neck. But I may not understand you pick up swop post GGJaquar.....
I won't know about the post spacing with respect to the Newark series because I don't have a Newark LB-1 pickup equipped guitar
......at the moment

 

[GAD]

I thought the pole spacing was different on the neck and bridge pickups for the Newark series - which made the switch rather odd from neck to bridge and bridge to neck. But I may not understand you pick up swop post GGJaquar.....
I won't know about the post spacing with respect to the Newark series because I don't have a Newark LB-1 pickup equipped guitar
......at the moment

That is correct. That's why Default took it a step further and swapped the coils.

 

[parker_knoll]

From this clip they sound pretty amazing:



Then again this guy probably could make anything sound pretty sweet.

Given that video is made for the sole purpose of selling that guitar, if they made it sound anything other than excellent then they should fire the marketing department

 

[GAD]

Watch this vid from NAMM that I link to in my Antihum/LB1 article (go to 1:00) you can see the guy switch to the bridge then nope right back to the neck.

 

[GAD]

Also I've had a lot of people tell me that they don't notice the difference in semi and hollow-body guitars, so there may be something about a solidbody that accentuates the issue.

 

[parker_knoll]

Also I've had a lot of people tell me that they don't notice the difference in semi and hollow-body guitars, so there may be something about a solidbody that accentuates the issue.

i was actually thinking about HSS and HS guitars which would surely present the same problems, with modern humbuckers clocking in usually high output and a strat style single coil being about half that. Can't you rectify a lot with pickup height adjustment?

 

[Default]

i was actually thinking about HSS and HS guitars which would surely present the same problems, with modern humbuckers clocking in usually high output and a strat style single coil being about half that. Can't you rectify a lot with pickup height adjustment?

That's so you can go from a clean rythm to an overdriven lead on a single channel tube amp. That's a feature, not a bug.

 

[parker_knoll]

That's so you can go from a clean rythm to an overdriven lead on a single channel tube amp. That's a feature, not a bug.

Perhaps the Guild marketing dept should start saying the same

 

[Default]

Perhaps the Guild marketing dept should start saying the same

Overdriven rhymn to clean lead?

 

[parker_knoll]

Overdriven rhymn to clean lead?

haha! yes indeed, it's the other way round. "Go from murky to meagre with the flick of a switch"

 

[GAD]

Believe it or not Eddie Van Halen’s later guitars all have a hotter pickup in the neck position. It was a feature for him!

 

[Wulfthar]

I have a new T bird and to be honest once adjust the pickups height there is no difference between the pickup output, sorry to go against the mainstream opinion here.