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I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
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DiMarzio Area pickups are pretty good but still not exactly the same sound as true single coils.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
They also do a P90 approximation in a single coil format,
ideal for bridge, or for an all-round beefy sounding strat
I did like Fender SCN
If you want active, I love the DG20 EMG set (David Gilmour set with active EQ)
EMG now also do passive-design but with a preamp on each pickup, they do SC ones with 6 poles
I have a set, but think it needs active EQ
Don't forget the Lace sensors
The only way to hum cancel a pickup is with a second (or even third) coil, but the penalty is that with a stack, one coil does next again to dick-all so you have to wind virtually double the wire to get the same output ... so you end up with instead of a 6k Strat single coil, a 12k stack which is basically a medium output humbucker with one non working coil! If you take the rails route then folks don't like the 'look' ... even though the sound can be is much closer to an SC than a stack. People want the poles!
I recently built some experimental Strat pickups based on the design Mojotone use for their Quiet Coils .(basically a tiny Firebird pickup) .. great sound ... but just like the Mojotones, very underpowered compared to a proper single coil.
It's like nailing a jelly to the moon ....
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I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
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A little while ago I built a noiseless prototype that I thought was pretty close ... then I A/B tested it with one of my Pre-BS 62 Strat pickups wound with NOS Heavy formvar wire (early 70s).
I put the noiseless prototype in the bin. The subtlety, harmonic content and general strattyness of the real thing convinced me to stop reinventing the wheel.
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Just wondering as I have no idea. I have the Seymour Duncan Yngwie Malmsteen Strat set of pickups in a Strat (came with the guitar) and I was under the impression these were noiseless in the way described above? Or are these something else?
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I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Then i heard even better advice from J Mascis on how he gets around the noise from his single coils + stacked fuzzes: "I just keep playing"
I am disappointed in myself that I prefer them to Kinmans, because DiMarzio did a bit of nasty corporate legal bullshit to Kinman over the design, but I just do... sorry.
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Stock pickups in my Deluxe Strat and just a bit bland and lifeless. They sound like a Strat enough for live use, but then you play a real Strat pickup and the difference is night and day. I much prefer to use a noise gate with a true single coil.