SH-3 Stag Mag
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DrNewcenstein
He Did the Monster Mash
Re: SH-3 Stag Mag
I'd be interested in this as well. While I do my share of Metal, I'm open to alternate voicings.
I'd be interested in this as well. While I do my share of Metal, I'm open to alternate voicings.
hamerfan
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Re: SH-3 Stag Mag
I have a The Mag (with flat A5 magnet rods): its not like a conventional humbucker. Its attacky and clear, but in overdrive situation it is not as tight as a conventional humbucker. I would say it works great with an overload of effects, but is lacking plugged straight into an amp, when its not completely High gain. It a kind of an first attempt to get a stronger SC sound with out hum.
I have a The Mag (with flat A5 magnet rods): its not like a conventional humbucker. Its attacky and clear, but in overdrive situation it is not as tight as a conventional humbucker. I would say it works great with an overload of effects, but is lacking plugged straight into an amp, when its not completely High gain. It a kind of an first attempt to get a stronger SC sound with out hum.
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DrNewcenstein
He Did the Monster Mash
Re: SH-3 Stag Mag
This has me wondering how it would sound as a 5/2 - one coil half 5s the other half 2s and leave the other coil with either all A2s or A5s, or stagger them so the inner has 2s on the bass and 5s on the treble and the outer coil has 5s on the bass and 2s on the treble, or do them evenly (bass 5s/treble 2s or vice-versa).
This has me wondering how it would sound as a 5/2 - one coil half 5s the other half 2s and leave the other coil with either all A2s or A5s, or stagger them so the inner has 2s on the bass and 5s on the treble and the outer coil has 5s on the bass and 2s on the treble, or do them evenly (bass 5s/treble 2s or vice-versa).
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Funkfingers
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Re: SH-3 Stag Mag
I bought a pre-owned Stag Mag to try out. I found the two-coils, in series sounds unacceptable.
IMO, the polepiece height stagger pattern is too exaggerated for balanced, conventional HB tones.
The second idea that I considered for the Stag Mag was to mount it as the centre pickup on a 24 fret guitar. The idea was that the individual "Strat" coils might be at the correct distances from the screw coils of the bridge and neck humbuckers, thereby creating more convincing sounds in selector switch positions 2 and 4.
Ho, hum.
I bought a pre-owned Stag Mag to try out. I found the two-coils, in series sounds unacceptable.
IMO, the polepiece height stagger pattern is too exaggerated for balanced, conventional HB tones.
The second idea that I considered for the Stag Mag was to mount it as the centre pickup on a 24 fret guitar. The idea was that the individual "Strat" coils might be at the correct distances from the screw coils of the bridge and neck humbuckers, thereby creating more convincing sounds in selector switch positions 2 and 4.
Ho, hum.
Re: SH-3 Stag Mag
There are a lot of old threads on this pickup and I thought I'd reuse this one because this gets at my main question - is the stagger on the Stag Mag a Fender neck radius stagger or a Gibson neck radius stagger? I suppose it's a Fender neck radius stagger.
I am interested in the Stag Mag because based on the sound samples I really love the clean tones in the neck and middle positions of the Alnico II strat pickups, both the true single coils and the active versions, though the passive sound slightly better to me. The traditional Alnico 5 strat pickups just sound overly twangy to me.
I thought this pickup might work well in an HSS guitar. But I don't do Fender neck radius. If I got a strat, it would be a Carvin Bolt so that I can get a Gibson neck radius.
There are a lot of old threads on this pickup and I thought I'd reuse this one because this gets at my main question - is the stagger on the Stag Mag a Fender neck radius stagger or a Gibson neck radius stagger? I suppose it's a Fender neck radius stagger.
I am interested in the Stag Mag because based on the sound samples I really love the clean tones in the neck and middle positions of the Alnico II strat pickups, both the true single coils and the active versions, though the passive sound slightly better to me. The traditional Alnico 5 strat pickups just sound overly twangy to me.
I thought this pickup might work well in an HSS guitar. But I don't do Fender neck radius. If I got a strat, it would be a Carvin Bolt so that I can get a Gibson neck radius.
