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I made a sound clip of both my Hallmark and parts Mosrite.
I used a Fender Twin Custom 15 amp with all the settings the same for both guitars.
Both guitars were wide open for both volume and tone.
The song I haven't played for over 20 years so it could be better but I thought everyone would know it. I played through 3 times starting with the neck pickup. both pickup's and last the bridge pickup.

http://www.ridgeroadramblers.com/ApRec_001.MP3 Mosrite

http://www.ridgeroadramblers.com/ApRec_002.MP3 Hallmark

Jim

Jim: Thanks for sharing.
I feel the tone of Mosrite is a little clearer and warmer. Both of them sound good.

I like the middle postion.

Jim, Ditto on what Vincent mentioned about sharing the sounds. I think Vincent is right about
the Mosrite being clearer, but some reason or another, I seem to favor the Bridge Pick Up .

Thanks for the comparison Jim.

I don't hear that in between 'quack' sound on the Mosrite in the middle position like on my two Mosrites and my clone with Mosrite pups in it. I don't recall the '66 that I sold to Vincent having the out of phase quack sound either. I don't get it, unless the wires on all three of my guitars, each having at least one Ed Elliott pickups in them are reverse color coded.

dubtrub wrote:Thanks for the comparison Jim.

I don't hear that in between 'quack' sound on the Mosrite in the middle position like on my two Mosrites and my clone with Mosrite pups in it. I don't recall the '66 that I sold to Vincent having the out of phase quack sound either. I don't get it, unless the wires on all three of my guitars, each having at least one Ed Elliott pickups in them are reverse color coded.

Danny, I don't know about ALL THREE of your guitars, but I'm wandering if the color coded wires
were reversed (from the P'up itself) on the 66, thereby you wiring them up that way on your
three guitars, but now the wires...ARE...reversed......???

Jim,
Wow, that's a really interesting comparison. Both nice sounding guitars, but the Mosrite has more top end presence. For the record, are both guitars set up the same way, ie. string gauge, pickup height? Also, do you know what the values are for the volume pots? Are they both the same?
Mel

Mel

Both guitars have CTS 500k pots for volume and tone.They have .05 caps, EXL115W strings with about the same amount of playing time on them. The Mosrite may have the most playing time on it. The pickups are set the same and are as close to the strings as I dare put them. The down side to the clips (except my playing LOL) is that I couldn't turn the amp up to get the best out of it. It was only on 2 and that amp doesn't start to come alive until at least 3. In the band I run it between 4 and 5.The amp settings were,
volume-2
Treble-4
Bass-7
Mid-3
Reverb-3


Jim

dubtrub wrote:Thanks for the comparison Jim.

I don't hear that in between 'quack' sound on the Mosrite in the middle position like on my two Mosrites and my clone with Mosrite pups in it. I don't recall the '66 that I sold to Vincent having the out of phase quack sound either. I don't get it, unless the wires on all three of my guitars, each having at least one Ed Elliott pickups in them are reverse color coded.

Danny:

This is how your 66's Mosirte sounds in middle position. I am not as good as you guys, so bear with my playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnTNfDtzqRw

Dennisthe Menace wrote:Jim, Ditto on what Vincent mentioned about sharing the sounds. I think Vincent is right about
the Mosrite being clearer, but some reason or another, I seem to favor the Bridge Pick Up .

I like to play the lead in middle switch position as I feel the bass notes sounds better. (I am a one man solo band and don't play in a band, so no bass player to help me out)

But I do like to use high switch position for tune like "Secret Agent Man' or country tunes like "San Antonio Rose" It sounds better that way.

Vincent, I forgot how good that guitars sounded. Wanna trade '66s?