Please describe a double thick A5

[big kurka]

So what’s the characteristics of a double thick A5.
How would you compare it to a regular A5
What would use them for.
Thanks

 

[Clint 55]

For general/rock playing, double thick is only used for the bridge. It's only useful in the neck for jazz where you want it full fat.

So for the bridge, it basically increases the output, makes it less clanky and vintage, increases the bass and makes it sound deeper and fatter. The general tone color characteristics remain the same.

They're really helpful for fattening up vintage output bridge humbuckers. But they sound good in medium and high output hums too.

 

[big kurka]

Interesting. So is it safe to say compared to a regular A5 the mids are relatively the same but the highs are smoothed out?
Does the lows stay the same in tightness or they get a little looser being the get deeper sounding?

 

[big kurka]

How would you describe the difference in a JB between a regular A5 vs Double thick A5. To me a regular a5 JB the lows can be flubby or loose sounding in some guitars.

 

[Clint 55]

You do get some attenuation of the highs because it rounds it out. But it doesn't mute them, it still responds normally. I don't think the lows get looser, but they do get broader so it does respond a little wider. The mids do stay about the same but the deepening has effect on the low mids. I don't remember JB with double thick A5. It would probably still have flubby bass haha.

 

[big kurka]

Clint 55 Thanks for your insight. Much appreciated

 

[Clint 55]

No prob

 

[Rex_Rocker]

No direct experience, but electrically, I think more Alnico 5 in a pickup would raise both the output and the inductance, so it would be hotter, fatter, and darker than standard thickness a5.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Normally, if you want to "tighten" up the bass on a pickup, you want to reduce it, not increase it.

99% of the time, a tight pickup is a pickup with a low-end rolloff (like the Black Winter or the Nazgul), IME.

Personally, I've always felt the JB's "looseness" problem seems to be more of an issue with the low-mids being stuffy rather than the low-end being boomy. JME.

 

[big kurka]

I’ve always had a love hate relationship with the JB pickup. It’s interesting how it can sound great in one guitar and horrible in another.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I’ve always had a love hate relationship with the JB pickup. It’s interesting how it can sound great in one guitar and horrible in another.

All pickups kinda do, really.

The Black Winter is among my favorite pickups, but on the Strat that I have right now, it sounded too smooth (weird, I know), and the first guitar I had it in, it sounded weak and thin. It has sounded fantastic in every other guitar I've had it, though.