High Output vs. Low Output

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: High Output vs. Low Output

My number one is an HSS strat and I have come to really appreciate PAF bridge pickups. I think they respond better to picking dynamics than high output types and I think they sound more musical. They balance with neck and middle singles well. They still have enough power to push my JTM45 over the edge a bit, but they don't compress the crap out of the front end of my Jubilee.

I have a Dimarzio Tone Zone in my maple Charvel. However, it was chosen more to go with the maple tonewise, and because I could get it in double cream, rather than output.

[ExplorersRock]

Re: High Output vs. Low Output

It really depends on the guitar for me. I like my bridge pickups to have some grunt, and usually like the higher-output stuff. But pickups like the Pearly Gates and the Burstbucker 3 (both under 9k) sound great in the right guitar. I wouldn't pass up a good sounding low-to-mid output pickup if the tone was solid.

[flavorednation]

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Is PATB-1 hot output?
I have a set incoming.I expect it to sound like a hotter PAF.But how hot?

[Lake Placid Blues]

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Is PATB-1 hot output?
I have a set incoming.I expect it to sound like a hotter PAF.But how hot?

They say the bridge version is hotter than PATB3 Blues bridge, which is voiced like a PAF. The PATB1 is about 15.7k DC resistance and uses A5 magnet. The PATB3 bridge is 9.8K with an A5 mag. I assume the PATB3 uses 42 guage wire and the PATB1 uses 43. 10k is way over wound for a A5 PAF, but the different masgnetic field of a PA may have something to do with that.

[IMENATOR]

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I like both but I have only 1 guitar so I am using a HSS configuration. Why I like high output? I like how high output pickups get a more fat/crunch sound from the bride for those metal riffs. Why I like low output? I think low output can get a rich sound from the neck position and I like how single coils gets along with overdrive, and I get quack which I like very much.

You can always try what some people would call "medium" output to try to get the best of both worlds into one single pickup.

Currently I have STK-S10/SSL-1/TB-4 so I would say I have medium,low and high outup in my guitar and each one has something very cool to add to the "sound palette" of my guitar.

[Aceman]

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I have found I like classic output necks, and Ceramic screamer bridges. But in general, for a lot odf mega-dirt applications, I think low output is just more clear and articulate. Iy may not be METULZ, but it sounds better.

That said - the high outputs I like, I generally like for ceramic tone and the EQ curve more than anything else.

[the guy who invented fire]

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I like low output pickups...single coils or humbuckers, doesn't matter...

Low output pickups give you more clarity and a bigger more open sound and I can crunchy it up, compress it or make it louder with the right amp and or the right stomp box but I've yet to hear a box that could make a hot pickup sound nice and open and clear.

[Myaccount876]

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Low output neck 'buckers, medium-to-high output bridge 'buckers.