Around 1991 I bought a Carvin guitar with HSS pickup configuration. It had two single-coil sized stacked humbuckers that I hated at the time because the output was so low. I didn't measure them, but it sounded like the resonant peak was at least an octave higher than normal single coil pickups. They sounded really odd: sparkly clear high end and heavily scooped mid-frequencies. Bass was clear and balanced. I didn't like those pickups back then and I replaced one of them with a DiMarzio single coil that was nothing to write home about but it had higher output. While those pickups didn't sound anything like normal single-coils, they were nice in their own way. First, they were dead quiet noiseless pickups. Second, the sound was very gentle and soothing, almost like an acoustic guitar but with a crystal clear high-end that never felt piercing.
Fast forward 30 years and I would like to restore the guitar back to the way it originally sounded with the two low output stacked noiseless pickups. Does Seymour Duncan have anything that would sound like that?
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The Jackson pickup in the image below is a J200, which is listed as having a resonant peak of 9.9 KHz. That sounds similar to the pickups I'm looking for. Does SD have any data sheets that tells the resonant frequency of their pickups?
They looked like this, except they said "Carvin" instead of "Jackson":
Fast forward 30 years and I would like to restore the guitar back to the way it originally sounded with the two low output stacked noiseless pickups. Does Seymour Duncan have anything that would sound like that?
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The Jackson pickup in the image below is a J200, which is listed as having a resonant peak of 9.9 KHz. That sounds similar to the pickups I'm looking for. Does SD have any data sheets that tells the resonant frequency of their pickups?
They looked like this, except they said "Carvin" instead of "Jackson":
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