Introducing Phat Cat Silencers

I just saw these myself. I think they will be pretty successful. I dig the Phat Cats as they are, but hate hum of any kind.
 
Haha, I get why people still put up with single coil noise, though I think some of those people aren't sensitive enough to that frequency, so it isn't a big deal to them. The others just really hear a difference and nothing but the real thing will do. I am more practical- many places I play are um, questionably wired.
 
Supernautilus said:
Ceramic though? Hmm...
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Choice to consider in the design as a whole, IMHO...

Any passive noiseless pickup involves a noise cancelling coil altering the properties of the signal coil and has to deal with its side effects, including most often a drop in output and noticeably increased eddy currents. The choice of a ceramic bar makes sense in this context: not only ferrite is more powerful than alNi(Co) alloys and can compensate the loss due to an higher resistance and/or to a dummy coil, but it's not electrically conductive and has a low magnetic permeability, so it doesn't favor eddy currents.

At least that's how I understand and explain it. YMMV.
 
Yeah, in instances where the design is non-traditional, you can't go by the magnets alone- you have to consider the whole design. If they thought ceramic was the best here, I'd believe them unless there is an issue.
 
I wonder if they are going to sound like the JJN Silencers...kind of that P-90 tone and punch but with an upper mid push like a JB. That's really the only thing (tonewise) that I don't like about the Silencers, they sound too much like a JB, which I have never liked. But they ARE dead quiet.
 
I thought the OG Phat Cats were perfect. If anything, I would've made both slightly hotter.

I actually thought they were less noisy than most other single coils with the cover.

I know y'all don't like noise gates, but... I mean... it helps. Sometimes. Maybe? :D
 
Every time I see the title of this thread I can't help but think it would be a great name for a shapewear product that helps large chested women get their bosoms under control.
 
i liked the og phat cats but thought they werent as balanced output wise as they could have been, a few hundred less turns on the neck would have made that set perfect for me.

cool that they made a silencer set!
 
I'm thinking that they are the exact same innards as the JJN P-90 Silencers put into a humbucker cover. I think they would fit because the coils in the P-90 Silencer cover are way shorter than the P-90 covers.

Actually, I just went down in my shop to check...the JJN Silencer coils fit perfectly into a humbucker-sized/Phat Cat cover, and the specs (DCR) are exactly the same for the Vintage and Hot sets. Makes sense, from a production point of view, that the Phat Cat and JJN P-90 silencer pups are exactly the same.
 
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