Ibanez INF1/2 ... anyone know what they're based on?

[ICTGoober]

School me on Baker's Act...

 

[Top-L]

School me on Baker's Act...

Dont know much about it, but there was a good bit of buzz around it a while back. Maybe google remembers.

https://shop.deanguitars.com/collections/dmt-baker-act

https://youtu.be/oINP-VD3gKs

To me sounds like a really mid forward PAF sound with harmonics. I like it.

 

[Top-L]

https://youtu.be/oINP-VD3gKs

 

[Masta' C]

To me sounds like a really mid forward PAF sound with harmonics. I like it.

Wait, you get "PAF" from the Baker Act? :bigeyes:

It's like a JB, but thicker. Like a Tone Zone, but edgier. Like an Aldrich, but...buzzsaw-ier. LOL!

It's a cool pickup with midrange grind and great harmonics, but there's no "PAF" in its blood, that's for sure! Basically an overwound Dean "Equalizer"

BTW, those old Dean Spotlight videos did a really good job of capturing its sound. Not the highest quality audio or video, but you get the point.

 

[Top-L]

Wait, you get "PAF" from the Baker Act? :bigeyes:

It's like a JB, but thicker. Like a Tone Zone, but edgier. Like an Aldrich, but...buzzsaw-ier. LOL!

It's a cool pickup with midrange grind and great harmonics, but there's no "PAF" in its blood, that's for sure! Basically an overwound Dean "Equalizer"

BTW, those old Dean Spotlight videos did a really good job of capturing its sound. Not the highest quality audio or video, but you get the point.

Its based on PAF sound in the same way my EMG 57 is based on PAF sound.

"A true original, the 57 is a bridge humbucker pickup designed for today’s guitar player regardless of style or genre. The unique combination of Alnico V magnets and steel pole pieces evoke an unmistakably PAF quality in its tone, yet the active attributes provide the headroom and punch necessary to deliver unparalleled definition and presence."

If you haven't played the 57, its like an "overwound" pickup.

 

[Top-L]

So I guess marketers are allowed to use this terminology, but I'm not? lol.

 

[Securb]

#truth

You can regularly pick up a virtually new set of the current-gen "Quantum" pickups for around $40 on Reverb. Similarly, you can grab a nice set of PRS "S" series pickups (85/15, 58/15, Tremonti, etc) for about the same price. People also rip the really decent stock pickups out of their Sterling JP models all the time and sell them for pennies, just because they want the actual pickups John Petrucci uses, even though they really aren't worlds "better", just a bit different.

GIbsons also, 498Ts and other Gibson pickups get a bad rap but they are great pickups. Much better than anything I was playing through as a kid until I got my Iceman.

 

[Masta' C]

So I guess marketers are allowed to use this terminology, but I'm not? lol.

Please accept my apology if I came off as being overly judgmental.

The "PAF" term gets thrown around very loosely these days. Admittedly, there's really no agreed upon "sound" that a "PAF" has...just some very generalized characteristics that inconsistently constructed pickups from a certain era are perceived to share.

If you play a Baker Act next to a '59, you'll wonder how you ever thought the Baker Act had any "vintage" character at all! That's all I was getting at.