Next forum pickup design (2014)

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rumblebox said:
A humbucker-sized pickup with 3 mini-humbucker coils. lol
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Dimarzio is known for their dual peak resonance humbuckers, where they will mismatch the coils so that one coil covers the highs and the other covers the lows, making for a pickup that seems to be in two places at once, tonewise. A neat possibility with a three coil pickup would be to have all three with different resonant peaks, a bass oriented coil, a coil dedicated to the mids and a treble focused coil. Maybe it would sound muddy, or maybe it would sound rich and expansive, I don't know, maybe someone does. I know there have been three coil "motherbuckers", but I don't know whether or not their coils were deliberately mismatched.

You could get a variety of sounds by having different combination of parallel and series, where two coils would be series with each other and the third in parallel, with the effect being all the more dramatic if the coils were very dissimilar for the sake of the different resonant peaks. On a normal guitar that might be option overload, but on a single pickup guitar, a five way super switch could be dedicated to making that one pickup produce a lot of different sounds.
 
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regarding the idea of a more vintagey wind on a quarter pounder, have any of youse guys tried the coil-tappable model? i have that in my strat and it really does make a huge difference to the tone when tapped. might be what you're after :)

i have more pickups waiting to be used than guitars ready to put em in (including the 3 new builds i have planned too), so i'm not sure that i'll be up for getting in on the action with whatever ends up getting made. however the idea of some decent p90s for a humbucker route might just be enough to grab me. my ernieball evh/axis guitar gets less use than her sister the peavey wolfgang. so getting something that'd give her notably different characteristics might be of interest. doubly so with some nice coil-tappability to switch between traditional & hot modes.
 
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I think it would be interesting to know from Duncan employees, what are the top 3-5 customizations people ask for? Perhaps that would make a better starting place for a forum build?
 
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Securb said:
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CLASSIC! ROFLMFAO!
 
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I think these would be amazing:

Neck: Jazz/Full Shred hybrid (With killer pinch harmonics!)
Bridge: Custom/Full Shred hybrid or Distortion/Full Shred hybrid

Both with 1 coil that has a wide blade instead of polepieces, maybe.
 
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I just thought of something and wondering if it could work out: Would it work to mate one coil of a Stag Mag with a different kind of coil (rail? axis? typical PAF / APH / PG / 59?) that results in a good PAF(-like) humbucker that can also split to a true single coil? What are the reasons it would or would not work? Is this something you guys on the forum would buy as a forum build?

Edit - I'm thinking of neck position, but could discuss which might be more useful or work out better.
 
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beaubrummels said:
I just thought of something and wondering if it could work out: Would it work to mate one coil of a Stag Mag with a different kind of coil (rail? axis? typical PAF / APH / PG / 59?) that results in a good PAF(-like) humbucker that can also split to a true single coil? What are the reasons it would or would not work? Is this something you guys on the forum would buy as a forum build?

Edit - I'm thinking of neck position, but could discuss which might be more useful or work out better.
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Not gonna happen so easily. A paf uses a bar mag and slug and screw pole pieces where a true single coil uses individual magnets under the string. That plus the pysical differences make it a tough order. Either the paf sound or the single coil sound will have to suffer.
 
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beaubrummels said:
I just thought of something and wondering if it could work out: Would it work to mate one coil of a Stag Mag with a different kind of coil (rail? axis? typical PAF / APH / PG / 59?) that results in a good PAF(-like) humbucker that can also split to a true single coil? What are the reasons it would or would not work? Is this something you guys on the forum would buy as a forum build?

Edit - I'm thinking of neck position, but could discuss which might be more useful or work out better.
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The magnetic field in the StagMag is screwed up anyway, I don't see how it gets much worse if you combine the rod coil with a passive coil and a magnet on them bottom, assuming the polarity is right to not oppose. You could move the magnet to outside the pole if there is enough space. There is a chance that the spilt sound of the magnet rod coil is better preserved than when pairing it with the opposing rod coil.

But PAF class isn't in the cards since you rod coil needs a 6K class coil and that is too much to combine into a 8 or 9 K total hummelbucker.
 
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Geez, guys, let's focus on finishing the one in progress before we start more :)

Judging by the reality that forum pickups seem to be low on the priority list at SD right now, we're just forcing undue distress and expectation upon the SDUGF member base.

There are too many sore and soured feelings already...let's heal the one wound before we open another!
 
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masta' c said:
Geez, guys, let's focus on finishing the one in progress before we start more :)

Judging by the reality that forum pickups seem to be low on the priority list at SD right now, we're just forcing undue distress and expectation upon the SDUGF member base.

There are too many sore and soured feelings already...let's heal the one wound before we open another!
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I was merely pointing out that we have already gone down the path of not finishing one - just like we do now :D

The efforts needs to be more coordinated.
 
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Could always discuss how the design process of any future pickups should be conducted, or such?
 
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Could just take a squat.
 
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Whatever gives the brown sound.
 
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I want a B-Rail...something like a P-rail wound for the "brown sound" in the humbucking mode with beautiful brown bobbins to match. I could squat on that ;)
 
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