Bridge VS Neck.....basically what is the design difference ??

[AlexR]

Re: Bridge VS Neck.....basically what is the design difference ??

Where can I find a pickup's inductance?

Well, it used to be about........maybe that is yet another thing thats gone by the wayside with the new design.

But to be fair its yet another metric that, whilst being much more consistent in relevance, still means very little. Most people don't know how inductance is measured, whether the scale in linear, or how a greater number relates to how the pickup actually responds. I put myself in this category too.

But there is not a single group of specs either singularly or combined that has any bearing on the way a pickup responds in a playing situation. Compression, openness, dynamics, sustain.......whilst features of amps they also reside in the pickup too.
I have a lot of vintage voiced pickups of all types. They reside around the same DCR for each type. But unfalteringly they have their own voice and respond differently to my playing. This is the bit that no figures can ever explain.

 

[Jacew]

Re: Bridge VS Neck.....basically what is the design difference ??

Then why doesn't Seymour Duncan also tell us the wire gauge and the tension that it's wound to?

There's graphs of eq and output. That's what most people just look at. That's really what you should look at, if you want to know for where the particular pickup stands in product line.

Texts in the webpage, and experience in this forum is even better.

There are no common spefications you could use to compare ALL pickups manufactured by different companies, because variables and designs are many, and there's also "tricks of the trade" to take note of.

Insisting to get exact numbers is stupid and pointless because in the end you don't even need them for anything.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Bridge VS Neck.....basically what is the design difference ??

Then why doesn't Seymour Duncan also tell us the wire gauge and the tension that it's wound to?

That's asking for trade secrets. Someone outside the company isn't entitled to this level of information. A competitor could start building knock-offs with that level of information. So it's not likely you'll get an answer to that.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Bridge VS Neck.....basically what is the design difference ??

One issue that might matter...is that some bridge pickups are Trembuckers...the poles are slightly wider apart. Usually the model name will have 'TB' in there. This means that the strings might not pass right over the poles if it were put in the neck spot. This might or might not cause an issue with the sound (depending on how hot the pickup is), but is an issue for people with OCD.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Bridge VS Neck.....basically what is the design difference ??

yall make my head hurt

dc resistance is a fine thing to know and if you know other things about the pup then you can make an educated guess at the output but it is not a direct measure of output. look at the dimarzio super distortion 14k, super2 8.5k and steve morse bridge 10k. the super2 is rated at 400mv output, sd is 425mv and smb is 450mv. if you only looked at the dc resistance youd think the super distortion would be significantly higher output than the other two which isnt the case.

 

[gregory]

Re: Bridge VS Neck.....basically what is the design difference ??

One issue that might matter...is that some bridge pickups are Trembuckers...the poles are slightly wider apart. Usually the model name will have 'TB' in there. This means that the strings might not pass right over the poles if it were put in the neck spot. This might or might not cause an issue with the sound (depending on how hot the pickup is), but is an issue for people with OCD.

And Trembuckers have a higher DCR than their counterparts so they *must* be hotter.