Looking for Stat single coils

[gregory]

Re: Looking for Stat single coils

That's what a coil of wire wrapped around some magnets is, after all.

 

[PicoRiveraTele]

Re: Looking for Stat single coils

What happens to the bass from a single coil pickup if I put a 2.5H inductor in parallel with it?

2.5 henries is a high enough inductance that it barely loads the primary coil, which is of equally high inductance, but the overall inductance across them halves because they're in parallel, so the resonant cutoff frequency raises.

In the case of a Strat, the pickups are also somewhat far apart, so you get comb filtering which scoops out a lot of the mids in spaced intervals, giving it that "quack" sound. With a regular humbucker, the difference between parallel and splitting to just one coil is much less pronounced, because the coils are side by side.

 

[PicoRiveraTele]

Re: Looking for Stat single coils

Aside of hum cancelling. Note that parallel they have twice the hum.

I personally have never had problems with it, though I use regular single coils almost solely.

The hum is the same. If the hum doubled, then so would the overall output by the same virtue. The inductance halves, but the voltage is maintained due to that that you now have two voltage sources instead of one. That's why split and parallel have roughly even volume, even though parallel wiring has half the inductance of split mode.

Of course mains hum here is 50hz so it's less noticeable.

You hear the harmonics of 50Hz or 60Hz, so I don't think it makes much of a difference.

 

[Jacew]

Re: Looking for Stat single coils

The hum is the same. If the hum doubled, then so would the overall output by the same virtue. The inductance halves, but the voltage is maintained due to that that you now have two voltage sources instead of one. That's why split and parallel have roughly even volume, even though parallel wiring has half the inductance of split mode.

I know. Just seemed obvious more coil surface would pickup more interference, causing hum to be relatively louder compared to output.