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I'm starting a new thread in response to https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?291409-Difference-between-stacked-single-coil-to-true-singlecoils&p=3853195&viewfull=1#post3853195 to avoid concerns about going off topic. Let me preface by saying that I'm only interested in getting at...

SD sent out a promotional email with a picture of a 3+3 humbucker featuring bobbins with only three holes / pole pieces per bobbin: They call this a "Wide Range humbucker", but the real deal features twelve pole pieces with six being hidden under the cover. I can't see under that plastic, but...

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Joyo JiBin Signature Overdrive I got this pedal a few days ago. There's not much out there about this pedal yet, so I thought I'd share. It sounds a lot like a Klone, with a big, warm mid emphasis, nice clean boosty sort of tone. The bass end on the JiBin is much bigger, though. It...

I made a test rig with a neck '59 so that I could record all the magnets I have on hand. Nothing about the rig changed from magnet to magnet, I just slid one magnet out and slid the next one it. IMO, the sound clips only tell half the story. It felt different interacting with all of them, like...

Has anyone ever heard an overwound SSL-1? It's my understanding that the SSL-5 was originally supposed to be like a hotter SSL-1 for David Gilmour(http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/how-to-sound-like-david-gilmour/), but it's wound with 43 AWG and IMO is a lot fatter than an...

I just got some new MIM Teles recently, both with minor issues I want to share so that you can look out for them if you're in the market. The guitars play fine and look good otherwise, but these two things shouldn't get past any sort of reasonable QC. Narrow neck joint; the neck and body are...

Fender's MIM Cabronita's come stock with Fideli'trons, which are knock-offs of Gretsch Filter'trons. The question comes up as to how much they differ from TV Classic, the leading Filter'tron replacement on the the market. I finally took a chance with a set of TV Classics and so I have an...

Does anyone know if there is a standard practice with regard to charge levels of A2 bars and A5 bars? For example, does Seymour Duncan Co. (or DiMarzio, etc.) fully gauss their magnets, or does any given pickup design incorporate a target gauss as part of it's specification? I know the...

Re: Coupla questions regarding pickup mags I've been experimenting with them tonight. I have a setup that lets me perform string strikes in a consistent way, a plucking arm is pulled down by gravity, same pressure, same angle of attack. I put the different bars into a neck '59, record six...

A new Fender Japan site has gone up, which appears to be administered by Fender directly, as it looks to use the same content engine as the U.S. site: http://www.fender.co.jp/ They have a section for "Japan Exclusive" models for each guitar type, http://www.fender.co.jp/guitars/ , but the U.S...

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I bought a guitar that came with a P-94 that I intended to replace, and it gave me a chance to see what's under the hood of a P-94. I wondered how Gibson was going about trying to recreate a P-90 tone with PAF HB sizing, and it turns out the coil is taller and thinner, meaning the two AlNiCo...

There's a recent thread about this guitar. I first saw it as a concept guitar last year and thought it would cost more than I was willing to pay, so I was happy to see that it emerged as a reasonably priced MIM. All three bridge type Tele pickups are supposedly Nocasters, reading between 6.6k...

This seemed like an obvious question, and I'm sure it's been asked before, but a search didn't turn up much for me: what is you favorite "clean" humbucker? I got a Lee Malia sig Epi Les Paul, not because I like nu metal, but because it's basically amounts to a reissue of the Les Paul Artisan...