JB/Custom hybrid

[MattPete]

Re: JB/Custom hybrid

Well no...the biggest for haveing the slug coil hotter is to have a split strat tone. The biggest reason for doing a Hybrid is that people claim that Eddie Van Halen did it and they want the EVH tone...I have never found proff that he did that...but some people do swear by them!!!

The reason for doing the hybrids is that mismatched coils will allow frequencies through that matched coils normally cancel out.

[BachToRock]

Re: JB/Custom hybrid

A CC coil has 3388 turns, a JB coil has 3088 turns which is a 300 turn difference. Burstbuckers are offset a thousand ohms so that's a 602 turn offset. As far as humbucking were clear lets do it.

This winding count may be correct, but there is another HUGE factor involved... the Custom coil is 43 guage and the JB uses 44 guage...

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: JB/Custom hybrid

A CC coil has 3388 turns, a JB coil has 3088 turns which is a 300 turn difference. Burstbuckers are offset a thousand ohms so that's a 602 turn offset. As far as humbucking were clear lets do it.

Where on GOD's grey earth did you get these numbers???

[BachToRock]

Re: JB/Custom hybrid

The reason for doing the hybrids is that mismatched coils will allow frequencies through that matched coils normally cancel out.

TRUE TRUE... though this is not the ONLY reason!
A humbucking pickup does not ONLY eliminate HUM... it also cancels out many frequencies including the very musical upper harmonics.
Mis-matched coils allow for more of the extreme low and high frequencies to avoid being suppressed.
Also, each coil will have a different RESONANT PEAK which when combined yield a FLATTER frequency response and more NATURAL tone...
DiMarzio patented the mixing of 2 different coils in a pickup like this many years ago...
Interestingly enough, I aquired a prototype pickup made for Joe Satriani and it has a sticker on the bottom that says "Satch 2 Woof/Tweet" and it is almost identical to the 59/Custom Hybrid!

[Davey]

Re: JB/Custom hybrid

DiMarzio patented the mixing of 2 different coils in a pickup like this many years ago...
Interestingly enough, I aquired a prototype pickup made for Joe Satriani and it has a sticker on the bottom that says "Satch 2 Woof/Tweet" and it is almost identical to the 59/Custom Hybrid!

they did what? >.<


next thing they'll papent is magnet swaps in a bucker right? geez

[Lightning]

Re: JB/Custom hybrid

Fire guy,

Thanks for the call...I edited my last post so the numbers are good there now!

#42 1660 ohms per kilo foot
#43 2125
#44 2590

A DD coil at 8k divided by 2.59 equals 3088.8 feet. At the mid point of a wind the circumference of a coil is .425 of a foot. So 3088.8 divided by .425 equals 7267.77 turns.