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Re: Hotter wind on screw coil

4/4/2006 10:09 AM
Zhangliqun	Re: Hotter wind on screw coil "But if they were both wound the same the slug coil would be hotter to start with , so is there a need to wind it hotter?" *FOR a certain sound, yes. To my ear, a vintage range bridge bucker tends to be a little thin sounding and in need of a little extra grunt in the mids. Winding the slug coil hotter seems to fix this. "Keeping in mind the need maybe to get the "edge " from mismatched coils , trying to find out if this was gibsons thinking when they first started with the PAF's?" GIBSON wasn't trying to do anything but make a hum-cancelling pickup. Beyond that, they (and all electric guitar/pickup makers) were trying to just get the wire on the bobbin as best they could. "I suppose some serious testing is called for, has anybody gone any further into it yet , maybe putting the coils separately into a guitar? that would bring in lots of other things into the equation , and not sure if a bucker would even work like this?" **WHAT do you mean by 'separately'?

4/4/2006 10:09 AM

Zhangliqun

Re: Hotter wind on screw coil

"But if they were both wound the same the slug coil would be hotter to start with , so is there a need to wind it hotter?"

***FOR a certain sound, yes. To my ear, a vintage range bridge bucker tends to be a little thin sounding and in need of a little extra grunt in the mids. Winding the slug coil hotter seems to fix this.

"Keeping in mind the need maybe to get the "edge " from mismatched coils , trying to find out if this was gibsons thinking when they first started with the PAF's?"

***GIBSON wasn't trying to do anything but make a hum-cancelling pickup. Beyond that, they (and all electric guitar/pickup makers) were trying to just get the wire on the bobbin as best they could.

"I suppose some serious testing is called for, has anybody gone any further into it yet , maybe putting the coils separately into a guitar? that would bring in lots of other things into the equation , and not sure if a bucker would even work like this?"

***WHAT do you mean by 'separately'?