New Pickups Day

[ehdwuld]

So i got some new pickups today

I was surfing Amazon over the weekend
And saw these MaxCheer with a coupon

They are cheap I know

But listen to what they spec out at

Both sets are Alnico 5

The chrome has a 7.91 ohm neck 4.42H
and 17.11 k ohm bridge 7.42H

The cream set has a 7.94 ohm neck 4.58H
and a 17.01ohm bridge 7.86H

Thats right a creme set of alnico 5 pickups
both for $25
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...TFBI3VTZC&th=1

The chrome was $35
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...FBI3VTZC&psc=1

 

[beaubrummels]

Copper plates. Wonder how that influences the sound?

Never heard of that brand. But if they work for you. You know, also, Duncan will do a rewind of any pickup you want with the pickups you supply as a repair service. So if you have a set of double creme pickups that need to be 'repaired', I believe you could get anything in the Duncan line on those bobbins (unless they changed their policy - anyone know?).

 

[ehdwuld]

Oh my that is interesting

But they are similar enough to the JB/JAZZ set i like so much

I want to compare them the 5 or six sets of duncans i have in various guitars with differet bodies

 

[freefrog]

Copper plates. Wonder how that influences the sound?

See the blog below. Not my work but his experiments and ours give potentially identical results.

https://alexkenis.wordpress.com/201...e-material-effect-on-self-resonant-frequency/

 

[ehdwuld]

so slightly brighter than brass
not as warm as nickel silver

cool

on this pickup it looks like plated copper or plated brass
I will check

Duncan uses nickel silver right?

 

[GuitarDoc]

I've tried various P-90 sets that were cheap ($17-40 per set). A5 magnets. Yootones, Fleor, Lamsam. They actually sounded great. I haven't tried the Maxcheer brand pickups yet, but I probably will.

 

[ehdwuld]

well I was going to try the Sapphure brand on amazon at $19
but they had the cheap looking brass base plates

these had the specs i like with what I think is a plated base
looks more expensive even if its not

I will try them in something shortly

I though the covered ones would fit in a set of triple shot rings
but they wont

the creme set is plan B
the uncovered set will fit the rings

 

[eclecticsynergy]

I've tried various P-90 sets that were cheap ($17-40 per set). A5 magnets. Yootones, Fleor, Lamsam. They actually sounded great. I haven't tried the Maxcheer brand pickups yet, but I probably will.

Just my opinion, but I think the P90 design is inherently more forgiving - or at least more tolerant of cheap parts & generic winds - than the humbucker.
Not that I have a huge amount of experience with cheap import pickups, but the P90s always seemed to sound great. Humbuckers have been hit or miss.

 

[ehdwuld]

Rail pickups seem the most iconic cheap generic pickup

I mean the expensive and cheap sound almost identical

 

[ehdwuld]

so I got curious

are those base plates really copper?

so I looked it up and brass is only 28% as conductive as brass

I put my DMM on ohms and tested leg to leg on the Maxcheer
and the meter said 0.000 or same as touching the leads together

went to a pickup set with known brass baseplate
the meter read 0.38 just a fudge higher

so they must be copper I would assume it is plated with something still