Oil City Neo -X-Breed updates

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The whole pandemic thing seriously delayed the roll out of my new stable of 'extended range' Neo-X-Breed pickups. However they will start going up on the Oil City Pickups site as of next week! 

The premise behind Neo-X-Breeds was simple: the mainstream manufacturers were simply making 7 and eight string pickups that were rehashing their 6 string designs - sometimes simply in slightly different form factors - but still pickups designed for normal EBGDAE tuning and directly not too far in design Seth Lover's original 'bar magnet PAF'.

The Neo-X-Breed  was developed to use the best characteristics of both 'rare earth magnets' and conventional alnico or ceramic magnets to produce a smooth and musical top end (that neodymium alone struggles with) combined with the ultimate in tight, fast tracking bass. The X Breed uses our 'tuned magnet structure' where each string gets the strength of field it needs - not the same amount of field as a bar magnet gives. 
Our endorsee Jeff giving the conventional form factor 7 string versions a work out. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVfetcTv6Y

TTony

If I didn't know that you enjoyed it all (way too much), I'd say that you spend far too much time coming up with clever new designs  that illustrate just how lazy the main pickup makers all are!

Good to see you're still up to magic.

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TTony said:

If I didn't know that you enjoyed it all (way too much), I'd say that you spend far too much time coming up with clever new designs  that illustrate just how lazy the main pickup makers all are!

Good to see you're still up to magic.

I'm also designing and building cameras these days ... as the guitar pickup buying public are way to conservative and I need a challenge.