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Lewguitar
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17.38K and 8K are the specs I've read.
This sounds like a cool pickup. I wonder if the tap is half-way on that one, too.
Lewguitar
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I guess they're calling it the '53 tapped now. Looks like 6.3K and 9.3K. http://customshop.seymourduncan.com/53-tapped-tele/
I have a '54 Esquire. A real one. The pickup is about 6K so the lower output of the '53 Tapped kind of matches that.
ItsaBass
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The Strat one is about 14K, the Tele about 17K. That is pretty normal percentage difference between Strat and Tele pickups.
I would assume the taps are at the halfway point, but I don't know for sure. I believe that the taps are in a good spot IMO, having used them. Tapped sounds like a classic Tele or Strat pickup. I set my guitars up to be normal like that, and treated the switch as a boost. I used the boost (i.e. the full coil) so infrequently that I ended up selling the pickups.
I would assume the taps are at the halfway point, but I don't know for sure. I believe that the taps are in a good spot IMO, having used them. Tapped sounds like a classic Tele or Strat pickup. I set my guitars up to be normal like that, and treated the switch as a boost. I used the boost (i.e. the full coil) so infrequently that I ended up selling the pickups.
Lewguitar
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But this isn't a humbucker with two coils. It only has one. I've never done the spinasplit mod but I thought it only worked with humbuckers, which have two coils.
ErikH
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Here's some info on this from 2008. It be useful. Conclusion, use a switch for the tap.
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/for...31424-ssl-5t-dialling-in-a-tapped-single-coil
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/for...31424-ssl-5t-dialling-in-a-tapped-single-coil
ItsaBass
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“Normal” was meant to mean your run of the mill, classic, standard issue Tele and Strat pickups, without an overwound/balanced Strat bridge pickup. The Strat pickup has traditionally been up to about 20 percent lower in DCR than the Tele bridge pickup. Yes, there’s variance all over the map, but the point is that the difference between QP Strat and Tele is not at all strange. Tele bridge pickups are traditionally hotter and darker than Strat “any-position” pickups.
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Yeah, the higher output single coils are always a compromise to me. One sound gets better then it tanks the other sound. You just have to decide what is more important. High output pickups (singles or humbuckers) aren't versatile, but they do one thing really well.
ItsaBass
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so far it's not really a compromise sound wise, other than the output difference between neck and bridge.
I use 500k pots and it's bright enough. I don't really care what it sounds like clean. i would use the neck for that.
For vintage sounds i have another tele...
just have to get used to the look of those strange big pole pieces...
i am already used to the look of rails.
i was really afraid of that 17k wind. but i would say it's less compressed than the duncan custom wind or Pegasus.
for now nothings bothering me, so i can concentrated on playing and writing stuff
You have to keep in mind that only when the same wire has been used on both pickups can DCR be used to directly compare how much wire length is inside of each. If the Tele 1/4 Lb. uses thinner wire than the Strat 1/4 Lb., then even if they did have the same exact number of turns, the Tele would have more resistance.
Resistance in and of itself does have an affect on tone, but not an a major way like most people view it. It's more of a flavoring than the actual meat and potatoes of a pickup's tone. The inductance number is a better spec to look at, as it gives you an idea of the number of turns on the coil combined with the strength of the magnet...but very few makers publish that info. So we're usually stuck with knowing DCR alone, and sometimes the magnet type, which isn't that helpful without knowing the wire used...which usually isn't published...and magnets of one type are not all made equally.
The information I would most like to have about every pickup is the number of winds and the actual measured strength of the magnets. But publishing that is giving away 90 percent of your invention.
Bottom line, the specs we can get our hands on only tell us so much. In the end, we have to try a pickup to "know" what it sounds like.
elelpe
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...and the quarter pound is out againo
it was the right direction but i think it overshoot my goal.
Sounds familiar. I did have similar goal as yours. Went with QP and ended up with Pre B-1. Still has it and won't get rid of it.
PFDarkside
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Reading the description, is the Pre-B1 kind of what a “Custom for Tele” might be?
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