PG vs. PG+

[DreX]

Re: PG vs. PG+

Not true, because if you line up the bass, you make it look like one pickup has a boost in treble, if you line up the treble, you make it look like the other has weak bass output. You can't skew results like that and draw a comparison.

Here's a non-adjusted test:

 

[DreX]

Re: PG vs. PG+

Here's a bit of background on this. I had been pushing very hard to do OEM business with Fender. At the time, the only OEM business we did with them was the Jerry Donahue Custom Shop Tele, which was very small. I pitched them on a Strat with an SD humbucker in the bridge. The first VP of Marketing I dealt with was Dan Smith and he very much wanted to keep all pickup manufacture within the Fender organization. Dan eventually moved from Marketing in Scottsdale to R&D in Corona; and that's when Mike Lewis took over Marketing. Mike was always a fan of the Pearly Gates. When he started prototyping what would eventually become the Lonestar, he told me that he loved the sound of the Pearly Gates, but because the Texas Specials were a bit on the hot side, their output matched evenly with the Pearly Gates; and he wanted a bridge pickup that would retain the tonality of the Pearly Gates but give around 3dB more output so when you switched into the bridge-only position, there would be a noticeable output increase. I relayed that to Kevin Beller and he changed the magnet and added a few more turns, and that's how it came to be, and that's what the difference was supposed to be.

That's awesome. If there was a Seymour Duncan book of this stuff, I'd read it. Maybe it's all business to the people on the inside, but a dream job for pickup junkies.

 

[darthphineas]

PG vs. PG+

The PG 'should' be wound on a Leesona so there should be a little randomness there. So I wonder about of the PG+ is (and has been) as well. maybe someone involved with that process at SD can chime in on that.

 

[Evan Skopp]

Re: PG vs. PG+

Maybe it's all business to the people on the inside, but a dream job for pickup junkies.

Trust me. I realize I have a dream job and I feel very fortunate to have it. I never take it for granted.

 

[Evan Skopp]

Re: PG vs. PG+

maybe someone involved with that process at SD can chime in on that.

The PGP is not wound on the Leesona.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: PG vs. PG+

What is the correlation coefficient for the amplitude measured?

 

[NotCardio]

Re: PG vs. PG+

OK, so my takaway from this is that, in very subjective terms, the PG+ is a smidge 'brighter', or the regular PG is a smidge 'darker', however you want to look at it, and the PG+ is ever so slightly 'hotter' than the regular PG.

Have I got it about right?

 

[DreX]

Re: PG vs. PG+

Yes, the PG+ is very slightly hotter and brighter.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: PG vs. PG+

Now I'm confused. Why would anyone want a brighter pickup in a strat:?::scratchch

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: PG vs. PG+

Now I'm confused. Why would anyone want a brighter pickup in a strat:?::scratchch

To match the already bright single coils in it?

Especially if they are going to use a 250k volume pot they might want a bright pickup (though I dont know whats used in the lonestar strat.