help identifying pickup

[thesteve]

i tried to search through the forum with the search tool and i couldn't find too much info...here's what info i do have.

the pickup is a single coil with staggered pole pieces (i.e. APS-1 or SSL-1). the wires were cloth braided and the sticker on the back of the pickup reads "1-R". from the pickup sticker list it appears that the 1 denotes it being a SSL-1, but i'm unsure what the R stands for.

anyone know?

 

[Metalman_666]

Re: help identifying pickup

Welcome to the forum dude!

Take a look here.

It might help you out. If not, surely one of the other and much more knowledgable guys will give you some good info.

*EDIT*
:smack: I see you already read that list.. my bad. Based on that, I guess the closest thing is your guess.

 

[thesteve]

Re: help identifying pickup

i'm mostly curious about the "R"...is it possible that the "R" denotes "reverse wound", and if so, does that really affect the sound in a non-Strat guitar (I have a Fender Jagstang and the "1-R" is in the neck position with a SH-4 in the bridge.)

 

[Metalman_666]

Re: help identifying pickup

I would think reverse wound pickups would have a modified sound in any guitar, not just a strat. But then again I don't know much about them. Someone else will surely help you out soon enough.

 

[thesteve]

Re: help identifying pickup

I would think reverse wound pickups would have a modified sound in any guitar, not just a strat. But then again I don't know much about them. Someone else will surely help you out soon enough.

hmmm...i always thought that you reverse wound the middle pickup in a strat to make it noise-cancelling in the 2-4 positions.

 

[Artie]

Re: help identifying pickup

hmmm...i always thought that you reverse wound the middle pickup in a strat to make it noise-cancelling in the 2-4 positions.

That is correct. And I'm sure your pup is a RWRP SSL-1. I have an older SSL-6 that I know is RWRP, and its sticker says "6R".

Having your pup be RWRP will also affect which coil of a humbucker that you'ld want to split to, to make the pair noise-cancelling. Unfortunately, I can't tell you which though.

Artie

 

[Zerberus]

Re: help identifying pickup

I would think reverse wound pickups would have a modified sound in any guitar, not just a strat. But then again I don't know much about them. Someone else will surely help you out soon enough.

RW/RP has zero effect on sound in ANY guitar..it´s only to provide hum canceling in positions 2 and 4

if you wire up duncan humbuckers according to the Site´s diagrams, the proper pickup for hum cancelling performance will be standard wound... if you´ve intentionally reversed the phase of and hums (or they were accidentally wound that way), then you´ll need a RW/RP version becasue you´re splitting to the other coil

 

[sm6sif]

Re: help identifying pickup

I have a Kramer Pacer II Custom. And the pickups are marked 1R. I thought it was a APS-1. I've never heard about SSLs in Kramer Pacer..