Quarter Pounder Humbucker?

[magillver]

Hi there! The title pretty much says it all, is there such a beast as a Quarter Pounder humbucker? I was looking at a Taylor solid body at my local guitar shop, with an HSS configuration, and all 3 pickups looked a lot like quarter pounders:

 

[Artie]

They do look like Quarter Pounds, but they are actually Taylor made pups. From Taylor: "The humbucker is the High Gain (HG) version, which is slightly darker-sounding with a crunchier tone."

Cool guitar though. It's the SB-1X HSS.

 

[Mincer]

It certainly looks like they took the look of the Quarter Pounder from Seymour Duncan. I think I remember reading about a stacked Quarter Pound from the Custom Shop.

 

[PicoRiveraTele]

Quarter Pounds don't have machining holes on the sides.

 

[superpete]

Some Anderson humbuckers have that look as well

 

[Clint 55]

Yes. Stick 2 QPs in a hum slot and wire them in series. It's a waste of string pull in the bridge position imo tho. I do use a myth set in series in the neck in a mustang as a mustang humbucker because Duncan would NOT wind me a real one. I've had a homemade strat stag mag that I want to revisit and want to try a jaguar one.

 

[PicoRiveraTele]

Yes. Stick 2 QPs in a hum slot and wire them in series. It's a waste of string pull in the bridge position imo tho. I do use a myth set in series in the neck in a mustang as a mustang humbucker because Duncan would NOT wind me a real one. I've had a homemade strat stag mag that I want to revisit and want to try a jaguar one.

Wiring them in series would make a muddy pickup, parallel would be more usable. Even better yet, re-magnetize the poles pieces of one of the pickups in reverse polarity so that it can humbuck.

String pull isn't much of an issue in the bridge position, it has a lot more consequence the further the pickup is towards the center of the strings, because the strings are stiffer at the ends.

 

[Mincer]

I couldn't speculate how such a pickup would sound, but if someone has 2 QPs, I'd love to hear about the experiment. I would suspect series would be unusable and thick, but parallel could work well.

 

[beaubrummels]

Just have Custom Shop make a Trembucker Stag Mag out of QP coils, but wind them so series coils isn't worse than the Invader.

 

[Clint 55]

I couldn't speculate how such a pickup would sound, but if someone has 2 QPs, I'd love to hear about the experiment. I would suspect series would be unusable and thick, but parallel could work well.

It actually works lol! To be fair it was a qp and custom strat I used but it was still a beastly 26k worth of pickup. The benefit is you still hear the qualities of the parent pups such as the qp's characteristic metallic mids which I love. It's just boosted like crazy and more compressed. Still plenty usable tho and even sounds good imo if you like hot pickups.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Some Anderson humbuckers have that look as well

Yah, the Anderson humbuckers are like that and I believe they use actual rod mags like a QP - great definition and they split famously well.
The H2+ is pretty popular as a medium-hot bridge pickup and the H3 is even stronger. I have an H2 which is more of a vintage-plus output.

I've seen cheap Chinese pickups that have a similar look, but using steel slugs with a ceramic magnet underneath.
Dragonfire Phat Screamers are like that.

Also have a RioGrande "Tallbreed" dual-Strat-coil hybrid: one Tallboy and one Halfbreed together on a baseplate.
Fairly nice pickup - big, punchy and loud. In series it isn't as dark as you might expect.
I think the tightly focused field of the magpoles helps keep it detailed, though it can get a bit mushy with tons of gain.
(These not the quarter-inch rod mags; they're extra long but standard diameter.)