Re: SEYMOUR DUNCAN SLUG PICKUP
I think the unique thing about this pickup is that the rails ARE magnets, rather than just steel rails. That might be easily overlooked.
The full or half rail designs most are the most familiar with (dimebucker/lawrence, dimarzio X2N, crunch lab, etc) are certainly aimed at being high(er) output pickups, but they don't use magnets as rails, they use magnetized metal rails...this one is using magnets.
You can always use a weak magnet and lots of winds or high resistance winding. That is one way that a lower output can be had with high windings.
These days, pickup designs run the full range of classic style to totally unorthodox approaches. Seems that on that account, DCR means less and less, because if all else were relatively equal, it would be a useful tool.
I like that seymour uses resonant peak frequency which I find a useful spec since I "know the frequencies" from doing lots of sound and lots of expirimentation with soundboard EQ, graphic EQ, and circuits.
I think that it would be helpful to the techie types to start publishing inductance as well as resonant peak, and to those few that don't post DCR, add that as well.
Dimarzio posts output in mv, but under a very specific setup...in general it does help compare one model in the Dimarzio line to another, though (I do find their EQ chart, resistance, write-up, and output comparisons between the paf joe / paf pro /fred /mo' joe very informative).
