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Re: Aged wire?

8/31/2002 4:09 PM
SK	Re: Aged wire? When it reaches that degree of looseness, yes it becomes "microphonic"; but generally it will only loosen to the extent of how tight it was originally wound(yes it CAN get even looser with fatigue etc). Potting doesn't make it "tighter" as such, potting just immobilizes the windings to varying degrees. This is why epoxy potted pickups sound harsher/sterile to me (JMO, and mostly speculation on that point).

8/31/2002 4:09 PM

Re: Aged wire?

When it reaches that degree of looseness, yes it becomes "microphonic"; but generally it will only loosen to the extent of how tight it was originally wound(yes it CAN get even looser with fatigue etc). Potting doesn't make it "tighter" as such, potting just immobilizes the windings to varying degrees. This is why epoxy potted pickups sound harsher/sterile to me (JMO, and mostly speculation on that point).

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Dr Strangelove SK wrote:[QUOTE]Potting doesn't mak... -- 8/31/2002 4:36 PM