DreX
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I'm starting a new thread in response to https://forum.seymourduncan.com/sho...-singlecoils&p=3853195&viewfull=1#post3853195 to avoid concerns about going off topic.
Let me preface by saying that I'm only interested in getting at what you know and can share. Things might end up getting dramatic, but creating drama is never my intention.
If you state the facts, they will stand on their own. Nothing I could say would make those facts less factual.
I'm glad to hear you say there are things about pickups that haven't been figured out, because a lot of people here wouldn't even admit that much.
You make money from the sales of pickups, so I have to weight everything you put forth knowing you have a financial incentive to possibly say whatever can be said to increase the chances of a sale. What does it means to make an "excellent" pickup? Isn't it mostly subjective anyway? How can you characterize subjective qualities as being "excellent"?
Again, if you post factual finding, they will hold up over time, they will speak for themselves, you will be credited for bringing light to a dark corner of the internet.
That's both condescending and an huge evasion, we don't need this.
What does it mean to "dial in" frequency response? In more technical terms, what does that entail?
What does AlNiCo II, III and V sound like? It's interesting that you're emulating how they sound when people can't even seem to come to an agreement on exactly how they differ. Some say that A II makes for a "spongy" feel, has a "soft" bottom and top end, how do you sort out all that subjectivity to determine objectively what a particular grade of AlNiCo actually sounds like?
Again, what is this process of "dialing in", and minimal loss of what?
I could agree that frequency response accounts for 90% of a pickup, but there's that remaining 10%, and the frequency response of the coil doesn't account for the particulars of the magnetic circuit, where the magnets are places and how far they are from the string relative to the coil, this size and shape of any pole pieces involved. Touching back to the topic of this thread, people always ask for a noiseless single coil that sounds like a true single coil, how can you be sure that what people are looking for resides in that 90% frequency response domain you have a firm grip on, and not in that 10% mystery area that perhaps you don't?
This is not an argument, this is a detailed request for clarification and assurance of someone in the industry who has made particular claims about the pickups they sell, and pickups in general.
Let me preface by saying that I'm only interested in getting at what you know and can share. Things might end up getting dramatic, but creating drama is never my intention.
If you state the facts, they will stand on their own. Nothing I could say would make those facts less factual.
I'm glad to hear you say there are things about pickups that haven't been figured out, because a lot of people here wouldn't even admit that much.
You make money from the sales of pickups, so I have to weight everything you put forth knowing you have a financial incentive to possibly say whatever can be said to increase the chances of a sale. What does it means to make an "excellent" pickup? Isn't it mostly subjective anyway? How can you characterize subjective qualities as being "excellent"?
Again, if you post factual finding, they will hold up over time, they will speak for themselves, you will be credited for bringing light to a dark corner of the internet.
That's both condescending and an huge evasion, we don't need this.
What does it mean to "dial in" frequency response? In more technical terms, what does that entail?
What does AlNiCo II, III and V sound like? It's interesting that you're emulating how they sound when people can't even seem to come to an agreement on exactly how they differ. Some say that A II makes for a "spongy" feel, has a "soft" bottom and top end, how do you sort out all that subjectivity to determine objectively what a particular grade of AlNiCo actually sounds like?
Again, what is this process of "dialing in", and minimal loss of what?
I could agree that frequency response accounts for 90% of a pickup, but there's that remaining 10%, and the frequency response of the coil doesn't account for the particulars of the magnetic circuit, where the magnets are places and how far they are from the string relative to the coil, this size and shape of any pole pieces involved. Touching back to the topic of this thread, people always ask for a noiseless single coil that sounds like a true single coil, how can you be sure that what people are looking for resides in that 90% frequency response domain you have a firm grip on, and not in that 10% mystery area that perhaps you don't?
This is not an argument, this is a detailed request for clarification and assurance of someone in the industry who has made particular claims about the pickups they sell, and pickups in general.
