Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

[JacksonMIA]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

I wasn't aware that you could test the resistance of an active pickup...at least, with EMG's or duncan livewires.

Hmm :scratchch

You can measure some sort of resistance with any of the active pups, but you'll get the same flawed results. It's like turning your computer off and sticking ohmmeter probes into your monitor jack. You'll get some sort of measurement, but it won't tell you how fast your processor is.

 

[ParameterMan]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

Originally Posted by krankguitarist
I wasn't aware that you could test the resistance of an active pickup...at least, with EMG's or duncan livewires.

Hmm

You'll get the output resistance of the internal preamp, but that tells you virtually nothing about the voltages generated. Within reason, a signal amplifier can be tuned any desired in and out impedances. It sounds like they used a mondo-cheap opamp and that's what they wound up with. Somebody ought to email him and ask him to measure the maximum real-world output volts generated either before clipping, or by a low E string driven to terminal velocity.

 

[JeffB]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

heh...that thing would turn a JC120 into a rectumfrier.

No thanks

 

[JeffB]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

So much unnecessary fizz.

Agreed...and notice how the slightly sustained notes "break off" abruptly....very harsh...no smooth harmonics

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

Thats an "active" pickup. I wonder if someone just threw a meter across it and measured across an output IC or something.

Almost certainly

 

[Inge Malmstein]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

I think that would be the value of the Live Wire Metal, if it would be a passive pickup with the same output.:cool3:

(Tone Chart: Output - off the scale!!! :eek2: )

 

[Aceman]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

As Nigel Tufnel might say: So your at 10, and you still need a little more to put it over the top...where do you go? Well, this one goes to 11!

 

[Pecan]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

Someone buy it!!!

 

[GHWelles]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

That pickup does not sound powerful enough. Someone please give it an 18 volt mod.

 

[octavedoctor]

Re: Oh My God... 57.4K???!!!!

The guy says it's an active pickup. You cannot use the output impedance of an active pickup as a guide to it's power output, you need to know the RMS and peak voltage readings to get some idea of that. EMGs have a typical no-load output impedance of 10kΩ, but have a typical output voltage of 1.25v RMS, 1.75v peak. A passive humbucker is considered high output if it has 500mv peak...

Even if it is a reading of the coil values, a high impedance reading is no guarantee of output level. Beyond a certain point, you have to reduce the diameter of the coil strand to be able to fit the coils in. This ups the DC resistance (current limiting) and pulls down the resonant frequency of the coil pair, choking off high frequency response, an effect that can result in less perceived power rather than more...