Any thoughts on the lollar supercaster?

[zionstrat]

Interesting video from Lollar....

https://youtu.be/e8Kbaq0d7iA

It's pretty much impossible to judge a pup from a video.. but it looks like Lawler may have come up with a new recipe that might be kind of interesting.

It looks like these pups are positioned for strat players who want more middle range umph without losing the high end. They explain they're using a very tall magnet and although they look like they have gold tops, apparently they are just there for aesthetics. They made it clear it's not related to gold foils.

They mention that it's a stack humbucker and in the video they sounded a bit like the child of a p90 and a strat.. with the p90 body and growl, but more chime.

I don't have an immediate need for anything like this but I am curious about what they're doing..

I'm guessing a big tall magnet with low winds might fit the bill, but that's just a guess and I'm hoping others would share their thoughts as to what we're looking at..

 

[playas]

Sounds to me like he´s describing a set of "quarter pounder" stacks with gold foil to avoid lawsuits. YMMV

 

[freefrog]

Not watched the vid but what comes spontaneously to my mind is the use of a bar magnet for humbuckers as a core in stacked coils. I'd bet for a ceramic bar in order to minimize eddy currents and to allow a not too high inductance + a strong magnetic field, in the ballpark of Fender AlNiCo rods...
Like a Gold Foil or Tri'Sonic with a vertical noiseless architecture, so to speak.
But it's just a baseless supposition.

 

[GuitarStv]

I like the chime I'm hearing in the video. Would be interested to hear these in real life.

 

[zionstrat]

I like the chime I'm hearing in the video. Would be interested to hear these in real life.

Yeah there's no way to tell how much the signal path is effecting stuff, but m it's interesting to get that much midthump out of a strat pickup and still have tons of high-end...

Seems considerably more of both than say the fender cunif strats, but again we need to wait till somebody's played with them and reports back.