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https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/264352/
At the moment I'm looking for:
* Hamer SS2 & T62
* Music Man Luke 1
Please drop me a message.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I've never found a way to get a PAF to sound like a 500t or a Warpig, no matter what.
If you take a high output pickup and a PAF style and dial in the same amp for gain parity between the two, they will still have very different tonal characteristics. You can't get a PAF to sound like a Super Distortion, and vice versa.
Take a pickup and wind it with say 5000 turns per coil 42awg wire and you get a PAF with what everyone would consider a low output and a DC resistance of say 7.8k
Now take that exact same pickup and give it 5000 turns per coil of 44awg wire and the DC resistance will go to to say 12k.
The output will be EXACTLY the same in terms of volume
Now the resonant peak will have changed and the output will be more compressed but the volume will be the same. How hard it hits your amp will be the same.
So if you want natural compression you go for a pickup wound with finer wire ... it's not 'hotter' because it has a higher DC resistance that's just 'idiot speak' - a pickups actual output is AC or alternating current.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Ash's knowledge is amazing in this field and it's definitely helped me understand pickups better.
My current favourite pickups are either my Bill Lawrence L90's from the 70's because they sound so clear and dynamic in my 335 or @OilCityPickups nocaster tele pickup/ @Mojopickups gold foil combo in my custom made tele.
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Of course, lots of pickups now can be high output and with much less compression (great for low tunings) so that blurs the line somewhat, with how to define them.
In passive pickups there are basically no major innovations left - it's all juggling with well known 'levers' ... more coil offset ... or different gauges wire on each coil (which Hofner were doing in the early 60s in spite of certain US companies taking out a patent on that) it's all been done.
It's just that nowadays we have more materials and technology to make consistency far higher and results more measurable.
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