Hi there! The title pretty much says it all, is there such a beast as a Quarter Pounder humbucker? I was looking at a Taylor solid body at my local guitar shop, with an HSS configuration, and all 3 pickups looked a lot like quarter pounders:
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It certainly looks like they took the look of the Quarter Pounder from Seymour Duncan. I think I remember reading about a stacked Quarter Pound from the Custom Shop.Administrator of the SDUGF
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Some Anderson humbuckers have that look as wellQuality riffs in about a minute...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2B...Y3EewvQ/videos
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Yes. Stick 2 QPs in a hum slot and wire them in series. It's a waste of string pull in the bridge position imo tho. I do use a myth set in series in the neck in a mustang as a mustang humbucker because Duncan would NOT wind me a real one. I've had a homemade strat stag mag that I want to revisit and want to try a jaguar one.The things that you wanted
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Originally posted by Clint 55 View PostYes. Stick 2 QPs in a hum slot and wire them in series. It's a waste of string pull in the bridge position imo tho. I do use a myth set in series in the neck in a mustang as a mustang humbucker because Duncan would NOT wind me a real one. I've had a homemade strat stag mag that I want to revisit and want to try a jaguar one.
String pull isn't much of an issue in the bridge position, it has a lot more consequence the further the pickup is towards the center of the strings, because the strings are stiffer at the ends.
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I couldn't speculate how such a pickup would sound, but if someone has 2 QPs, I'd love to hear about the experiment. I would suspect series would be unusable and thick, but parallel could work well.Administrator of the SDUGF
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Originally posted by Mincer View PostI couldn't speculate how such a pickup would sound, but if someone has 2 QPs, I'd love to hear about the experiment. I would suspect series would be unusable and thick, but parallel could work well.The things that you wanted
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Originally posted by superpete View PostSome Anderson humbuckers have that look as well
The H2+ is pretty popular as a medium-hot bridge pickup and the H3 is even stronger. I have an H2 which is more of a vintage-plus output.
I've seen cheap Chinese pickups that have a similar look, but using steel slugs with a ceramic magnet underneath.
Dragonfire Phat Screamers are like that.
Also have a RioGrande "Tallbreed" dual-Strat-coil hybrid: one Tallboy and one Halfbreed together on a baseplate.
Fairly nice pickup - big, punchy and loud. In series it isn't as dark as you might expect.
I think the tightly focused field of the magpoles helps keep it detailed, though it can get a bit mushy with tons of gain.
(These not the quarter-inch rod mags; they're extra long but standard diameter.)
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