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Re: PAF enhancement

9/3/2002 4:04 PM
MKB	Re: PAF enhancement Here's a few things to try (please take them with a grain of salt as I am not a pickup maker, just a hobbyist that has built a few from scratch). Use a more powerful magnet, sometimes weaker magnets can make a pickup sound darker. If you have several magnets lying around, maybe try exchanging them to see if that helps. A high end pup maker (Fralin?) has a technique where one coil of a humbucker has around 10% (IIRC) less turns than the other, this is supposed to change the sound a bit. I did this on a homemade bridge humbucker, where the slug coil had fewer turns than the screw coil. This made the pickup livelier with more sparkle. I really liked the effect. You may also have enough turns on the pickup so that it sounds dark, most Gibson humbuckers I have seen are around 7.5 to 8k.

9/3/2002 4:04 PM

MKB

Re: PAF enhancement

Here's a few things to try (please take them with a grain of salt as I am not a pickup maker, just a hobbyist that has built a few from scratch).

Use a more powerful magnet, sometimes weaker magnets can make a pickup sound darker. If you have several magnets lying around, maybe try exchanging them to see if that helps.

A high end pup maker (Fralin?) has a technique where one coil of a humbucker has around 10% (IIRC) less turns than the other, this is supposed to change the sound a bit. I did this on a homemade bridge humbucker, where the slug coil had fewer turns than the screw coil. This made the pickup livelier with more sparkle. I really liked the effect.

You may also have enough turns on the pickup so that it sounds dark, most Gibson humbuckers I have seen are around 7.5 to 8k.