New pickups.

[Davanator360]

Hey guys,

I bought a PRS SE Custom 24 Floyd Rose recently and long story short, I love everything about it. Everything except the coil splitting on the stock pickups. I like the tone and the vibe the guitar gives in single coil mode, but there is just too much output loss. So I'm looking for a nice pair of humbuckers that can hold same output in single coil mode, and yes that means whatever pickup you mention has to have the coil splitting ability. Also, I play a lot of jazz these days, so it can't be anything too high-gain.

Thanks for your input,

David

 

[swissmountain]

Re: New pickups.

The DiMarzio Bluesbucker does this well because its slug coil is wound much lower than the screw coil. The screw coil stays active in both humbucker and single coil modes. I have used one in the neck position of a tele. It is a good choice for the neck pickup because it is bright and does not have too much output. For the jazz tones you may have to use the tone control. If you go with it be sure to orient the screw coil towards the neck for a fuller split tone.

I am not so sure whether to use it in the bridge position - may be too bright there but I cannot say for sure as I have only used it in the neck.

 

[LatsMcGee]

Re: New pickups.

StagMags...

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: New pickups.

In my opinion, the inevitable output drop caused by coil splitting a humbucker is one of the reasons for doing it in the first place. The reduced drive into valve pre-amplifier stages offers sonic and dynamic variety.

There is no dual coil pickup whose signal is not reduced when one of the coils is not used. The only way to avoid the drop in output would be to include a pre-amp/booster device in the coil split portion of the guitar's circuitry. This is guaranteed to add unwanted noise.

The DiMarzio Bluesbucker suggestion above is a valid one. The output levels in the two modes are not wildly different.

My suggestion for both positions is SD P-Rails. This will give you plenty of sonic variety from one guitar. The modification will require two push-pull pots. Upgrading to American-made components will allow you to make fuller use of the guitar's volume pot to govern the degree of valve amp saturation without switching channels.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2_prails_1v_1t_tspp

 

[uOpt]

Re: New pickups.

"Same" when split isn't possible. Any such pickup that stays strong in split will add a lot of output when not split so the difference is right back.

What you can do is take a really fat pickup and instead of splitting it you put it into parallel mode. The Invader does that well.

 

[Demanic]

Re: New pickups.

The Alternative 8 is quite nice when split.