Anyone tried the SSL-3Ts?

[efan]

Hi everyone, I'm new here. Saw a guitar with SSL-3Ts and wondered if anyone's tried them? What did you think of them? Looked online and couldn't find barely anything on them. I wonder if they sound like buckers when they're not tapped. Thanks!

 

[Mincer]

Re: Anyone tried the SSL-3Ts?

Welcome to the forum!

They sound like fat single coils, but not humbuckers.

 

[hamerfan]

Re: Anyone tried the SSL-3Ts?

What Mincer say. And SD does the tap on the wrong place. I think an overwound pickup has a point where it is rightly wound in relation to the mag strenght, say abour 4/5 or something. This is the point where you get a useful second sound. SD just take the middle of the winding and you get wimpy sound in the bridge.

 

[efan]

Re: Anyone tried the SSL-3Ts?

Welcome to the forum!

They sound like fat single coils, but not humbuckers.

Yeah that's sort of what I was expecting. So sort of like Fender flavoured P90s?

 

[Jacew]

Re: Anyone tried the SSL-3Ts?

What Mincer say. And SD does the tap on the wrong place. I think an overwound pickup has a point where it is rightly wound in relation to the mag strenght, say abour 4/5 or something. This is the point where you get a useful second sound. SD just take the middle of the winding and you get wimpy sound in the bridge.

I love the sound of tapped QP in the bridge. If that had tapped even 2/3 it would be too much for vintagey sound from that pickup. Even if that's not the aim I suspect it wouldn't give at all enough difference.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Anyone tried the SSL-3Ts?

Yeah that's sort of what I was expecting. So sort of like Fender flavoured P90s?

Actually darker than that. SD does make a P90 in a Strat size, however. It retains the clarity that conventional overwound single coils lose.