expected changes 59 with A4 and A3

Re: expected changes 59 with A4 and A3

I've got some A3 Strat neck pickups that I really like. Mind you, I did make them, so perhaps a slight bit o' bias there. I think they're well balanced, which might be another person's dull/bland. Who knows :)
 
Re: expected changes 59 with A4 and A3

A3 is also what I've currently in my own home brew P90 model. It gives a sweet but tight sound. I've tried the very same mags with other coils and magnetic circuits but didn't like the result as much...

Now, I know that my opinion could change if I tried these A3 bars in another P90 or if I had other kinds of keeper bar/ screw poles in mine. :-)
 
Re: expected changes 59 with A4 and A3

I've got some A3 Strat neck pickups that I really like. Mind you, I did make them, so perhaps a slight bit o' bias there
Oh, I've made quite a few HBs myself, both for me and customers, although I don't think I suffer the "proud father" syndrome, as, TBH, I hated several of of the ones I made, or, maybe it was the p'ups that hated the guitars I put'em in? As those prototypes went in other people's instruments and never came back, for whatever reason.

Bottom line: I have no problem in tell it how it is, even to myself, (well, I DO have ears, mind you) specially if I the designs had a certain tonal goal to accomplish or a task to fulfill, and come up too short or too long. But, just to paraphrase John Zart, "One man's trash can be another man's treasure".

HTH,
 
Re: expected changes 59 with A4 and A3

A3 is also what I've currently in my own home brew P90 model. It gives a sweet but tight sound. I've tried the very same mags with other coils and magnetic circuits but didn't like the result as much...

Now, I know that my opinion could change if I tried these A3 bars in another P90 or if I had other kinds of keeper bar/ screw poles in mine. :-)

I think the current Gibson Custom Shop LP w/P90s has A3 in both positions. I stumbled on that after someone else mentioned A3 P90s on here, but I was sedated earlier, so possibly suffering the after effects :p

Oh, I've made quite a few HBs myself, both for me and customers, although I don't think I suffer the "proud father" syndrome, as, TBH, I hated several of of the ones I made, or, maybe it was the p'ups that hated the guitars I put'em in? As those prototypes went in other people's instruments and never came back, for whatever reason.

Bottom line: I have no problem in tell it how it is, even to myself, (well, I DO have ears, mind you) specially if I the designs had a certain tonal goal to accomplish or a task to fulfill, and come up too short or too long. But, just to paraphrase John Zart, "One man's trash can be another man's treasure".

HTH,

Being new at it, I could see me having a slight bias just from the thrill of successfully managing to produce something, though I do hope that I've casted a critical ear on various attempts along the way. I've yet to work the magic of producing a potted wind that matches the unpotted one (the latter trumping a fair way), and consistent tension is a right faffin' [insert tantrum here]. I guess I'm largely messing around, seeing what I do/don't like, rather than needing to fullfill another's criteria, which would probably send me over the edge :p

I plan to do a sound sample video at some point :)
 
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