Experimental stack/humbucker idea

[Gabrielinconfident]

so those seem to be tapped buckers? 6 conductor suggests start/tap/full for each coil.

Thought the same thing. Though it could be 3 coils, 2 wires per coil. Who knows ‍

 

[jeremy]

could be three coils, youre right. hard to know since its under a cover, but the row of screws suggests at least one normal size bucker coil

 

[freefrog]

Looks interesting, but I’d like to see what’s under the cover. The 16min video has a clip of Donald Trump, but doesn’t have an actual explanation of how it works XD

Your 2d sentence gives me an awful desire to joke on politics, but I'll resist! :0x

Regarding the "Chameleon": the black box effect is the only way for small artisans to protect at least a bit their most personal designs. An ol' friend winder did the same by putting his last products under some covers impossible to pull off without destroying the transducers themselves...

You could send a PM to Alegree: maybe he would/will tell and show you what you want to know... ;-)

 

[Gabrielinconfident]

Even if you want it powerful... +1 on what Clint said: a SSL5 alone has already almost the inductance of a P90.

I’m comparing the STK-S6 (custom) to the STK-S7 (vintage hot), and it seems the 6 is not only hotter, but also a little brighter. It’s surprisingly difficult to find demos of the S6, so I’m using the sound samples from the SD pages. Are my ears correct?
Also, considering the bridge pickups I’m pairing it with (X2N and SH5), which one do you think would be easier to level equally? The reason why I jumped to the STK-S6 is because if I’m playing clean – and I do mean clean, not even edge of breakup, I like fully clean cleans, which means no amp compression – I don’t want any jump in volume between pickups. Since my bridge pups are always very hot, I tend to overcompensate in the neck position. But your mention of P90s made me wary, because I don’t want a P90 tone, I want it to still sound like a strat.

 

[freefrog]

I find extremely difficult to give a valid advice here for various reasons - including the fact that passive pickups sound different anyway according to the guitar used but also to pots resistance, cable capacitance, input impedance...

IF you want something not too weak compared to a X2N but clean AND bright, here is what comes to my mind : the pickup musn't find its power in a high inductance but rather in a strong magnetism - with a limitation due to neck position: it musn't have too much string pull, or it will generate stratitis...

IOW, I'd think about a stack with a relatively low inductance and some ceramic magnet(s) - inspired by the hot noiseless Fender Strat PU's mounted in Jeff Beck Strats, for instance, rather than by a SSL5 sounding stack.

That's all I can say for the moment. Hope it's not too useless...