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Output differences
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 5/8/2006 2:47 PM |
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| noobee | Output differences Ok, I have a good question. How would one change the way you wind to get a either lower output in the neck and or more output in the bridge. I hear about calibrated sets or matched sets and I know the neck is always louder so what do they do to compensate for the volume difference between the neck and bridge? |
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| 5/8/2006 4:32 PM |
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Spence |
Calibration is a term used to explain a balance between the pickups. Therefore as we're talking about volume balances, the bridge pickup will have more turns of wire than the neck. Or, you can use the same amount of turns but different strengths of magnet. As different magnets have different tonal characteristics it's better to use the same type of magnet but alter the gauss levels relative to each other. But that's a different ball game altogether. |
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| 5/9/2006 7:56 AM |
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| David Schwab |
On 5/8/2006 10:32 PM, Spence said:
I have a question (for you or anyone that might want to answer)... what's the difference in tone between over winding a bridge pickup with 42 wire, or using 43, but still making it match DCR wise (as the over wound 42)? In other words, if you want your bridge pickup to be hotter than the neck, is it better to wind more with 42 or go to a thinner wire? And what difference in tone would their be? I know I should just try it and see for myself, but I don't have any 43 wire on hand.  | |
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| 5/9/2006 12:13 PM |
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| Spence |
Well, if you wind two pickups to the same resistance but using 42 for one and 43 for the other, you will notice the pickup wound with 43AWG will be norrower. As a result, it will not be mapping as large a string area as the one wound with 42 AWG. You should see a difference in treble response particularly. I have made Strat sets before now for metal freaks who want stratty tones for clean and death silly bastard tones when dirty. In that case I've wound the neck with 42, middle 43 and bridge in 44AWG. It works. |
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| 5/9/2006 1:14 PM |
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| David Schwab |
He he! Interesting! Thanks for the reply. I'll have to get some other wire sizes to play with. | |
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| 5/9/2006 10:53 PM |
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| Dave Stephens | Jeeezus Gawd, I wound a strat set similar to that, my first strat set ever, for sale, they're still on my site, the Twister set. What you don't want to do is sell a set like that to a traditional strat guy. These kinds of sets sound pretty good through modern Fender amps, PC board stuff, high gain and pedals.... Anyway, to make along story longer, Ive only had 3 customers in all this time who didn't like my work and two of them were guys who bought that particular set and absolutely, vehemently hated it. I do have good representative sound clips on my site too. They hated it so much they wanted nothing ever to do with me again, didn't want to exchange for a more traditional set, they pretty much thought I didn't have a clue what I'm doing, wanted their money back and were real nasty about it all. One guy I even tried to steer away from that set but he demanded it. Sometimes its hard to judge the epxerience of a customer even though you try real hard. Its not a bad set but its usually the professional players who know what to do with it, the Guitar Center crowd want to plug in and get instant SRV with no effort. Funny thing is if they actually played SRV's strat they would probably hate it Anyway I always refund full purchase price if anyone is unhappy. The third guy who didn't dig my P90s, uhhh....have you ever met someone who smokes a little tooooo much pot? I think he ran out and the refund helped him restock his stash Dave |
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