changing coils from one duncan to another?

[BowerR64]

How does this work? I read that eddie did this. Does anyone have any info on doing this?

Say you take a hot pickup thats around 16k and you take one of the coils out and put it into a pickup that is like 8k. Will one of the coils become dominante?

WHat does this do to the sound? if say you take a really brite duncan and one thats really fat and bassy. will you get a brite bassy pickup?

 

[hamerfan]

Re: changing coils from one duncan to another?

To change is coils is quite common. This makes a kind of Unbucker - this name was chosen bei Lindy Fralin for an uneven wound humbucker. How does this sound? Normally the two coils pick the string on different places, so every coil of a humbucker sound a little different. The more winding coil becomes dominating (nearer to the bridge a little harder) and the wound strings get a little clearer, because the string is picked up on one point only.
Brite and bassy are more a question of the magnet (okay: and a little bit of the wire type and the winding and of cause the number of winding.) So in your example you get an humbucker with 12k, and depending on the magnet you use a warm, slightly mid scooped or a ceramic hot PAF type. And this Unbucker hums! Hope that helps!

 

[BowerR64]

Re: changing coils from one duncan to another?

I did it and its the best pickup i have now. I took 2 "guitar fetish" pickups one was the 59' and then one was called PAF crunch. The 59 was 8k and the PAF was 16k. I swapped the coils and the 59 "unbucker" sounds better then the PAF unbucker. The 59' pickup sounded ok but it just wasnt quite enough. The PAF crunch was brite and muddy it was a little to much more then i wanted. Now the 59 is perfect. The PAF crunch unbucker still sucks. Its still brite and just sounds blah.

Im really curious now what 2 good pickups would sound like. I like the idea of using one that is over brite and one that is overly bassy. It seems to even out when you put em together.

I just want to learn more about why it sounds good.