Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

[zionstrat]

Don't know if anybody has already talked about bipolar on the forum however I bumped into them today and found out they're already doing something I've been hoping to do for quite some time.

What they've done is to put two individual coils in each strat pickup cover so that the treble coil and the bass coil can buck the noise like a p Bass or g&l, but without the offset.

But for me the next point is the most important. They worked out multiple combinations using bass strings from one pup combined with treble strings from another pup.

Surprisingly they did not do the one combination that I am most interested in... Combining the bridge bass elements with the neck treble elements... I had imagined this could give very clear clean bass attack with warm treble, but my guess is that they tried it out and it wasn't as cool as I would have imagined.

Bottom line is I would love to try them out but wasn't immediately overwhelmed by the demos. On the other hand I saved myself a lot of time on r&D

Anyone else bumped into these guys and tried them in the real world?

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[Masta' C]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

You're late to the party. There's already a thread below this discussing these pickups...

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

Thanks I actually did a search but it never seems to work for me... I must be too old

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[Masta' C]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

No worries

Here's the thread: LINK

 

[freefrog]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

Don't know if anybody has already talked about bipolar on the forum however I bumped into them today and found out they're already doing something I've been hoping to do for quite some time.

What they've done is to put two individual coils in each strat pickup cover so that the treble coil and the bass coil can buck the noise like a p Bass or g&l, but without the offset.

But for me the next point is the most important. They worked out multiple combinations using bass strings from one pup combined with treble strings from another pup.

Surprisingly they did not do the one combination that I am most interested in... Combining the bridge bass elements with the neck treble elements... I had imagined this could give very clear clean bass attack with warm treble, but my guess is that they tried it out and it wasn't as cool as I would have imagined.

Bottom line is I would love to try them out but wasn't immediately overwhelmed by the demos. On the other hand I saved myself a lot of time on r&D

Anyone else bumped into these guys and tried them in the real world?

bipolarpickups.com

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When it comes to pickups, I find very hard to have an idea which hasn't been discovered yet...

For me, the desillusion about "supposed personal inventions already discovered earlier" started in the early 80's... but I've gone through worse experiences in the following decades (when a plagiarist has made money on my work in another domain of knowledge, for example). :-/

Now and to come back on topic: as suggested in the other thread by another of my answers that nobody reads, wound strings on bass pickup + treble strings on bridge pickup were already available in the 60's with the Burns / Baldwin "Split sound" pickups and wiring. It can be heard here @ 2:30:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v56lfCH580

Having worked on some Burns rotoswitches recently, I'll venture to qualify as really easy to reverse this wiring in "treble strings on bass pickups + wound strings on treble pickup".

FWIW.

 

[shupe13]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

Darrell Braun did a demo of their pickups.

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[GuitarDoc]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

So it's a humbucker pup. But instead of having the coils (with 6 poles each) side-by-side, the coils (with 3 poles each) are end-to-end.

I guess they've been around for awhile, but I've never heard of them before. Very interesting idea with lots of tonal opportunities (I'd stay away from the neck bass side with the bridge treble side though).

 

[shupe13]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

https://youtu.be/-tm-BzRSPj0

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[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

As I said in the other thread, this is an old idea. This is how the Fender P bass pickup works.

It’s been used by both Fender and Fralin for Strat pickups. It isn’t popular because as you bend the string over the split you get a drop out.

It’s very common for bass pickups.

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[Mincer]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

The Apollo Jazz pickups are like this.

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Bipolar beat me to a new pick up

Guys,
Thanks for pointing me to the other thread and posting all the previous versions of this concept.

The bending doesn't work aspect makes complete sense. However I still want to hear that bright bass combined with dark treble.

Assuming that these pups don't just fly off the shelf, I guess it would be best for me to wait a couple years, see if I can pick up a set for cheap and wire the way that I so much want to hear

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