single coil size humbucker matches a full??

[darth vader]

Hello!It is my first post here and i am glad to join your forum community!

I own a fender telecaster with 2 enforcer humbucks and i recently replaced 2 single coils on my lite ash stratocaster (bridge and neck position) with a jb jr on the bridge and a little 59' on the neck....since i got the guitar with the new mini humbucks from my repairman i 've been trying to match the output level with the telecaster which has enforcer humbuckers on (i read somewhere that they'r listed at 24K..)...with the jb jr on 16.08k i find it impossible to match the output with the telecaster without getting a distorted signal when hitting hard the strings on the clean channel....the guitar is perfectly set up for my taste...am i doing something wrong or is it just normal for a single coil size humbuck to have lower output compared to a full size?

 

[rashayritto]

Re: single coil size humbucker matches a full??

hmm...well if the jb jr is driving your clean channel then i imagine you really are getting a good bit of output. are you sure by output you done mean "tone"? a single coil sized humbucker will probably never sound exactly like a full sized (because of the narrower magnetic field, i imagine). so a similarly wound sc sized hb will probably always have more cut and attack than a comparable hb pickup while having less "body"

my first seymour duncan was the hot rails pickup. i can certainly say that the above statement applies to my experience. that was a very angry pickup that could easily get too shrill, but it sure knew how to punch my amp in the guts! i have yet to encounter a full size hb with the same qualities regardless of actual output

hope this helps in some way =)

 

[darth vader]

Re: single coil size humbucker matches a full??

nope i was just refering to the output level!thanx so much for replying!

 

[VanHalen2626]

Re: single coil size humbucker matches a full??

what exactly r you trying to do to match the output level?

 

[darth vader]

Re: single coil size humbucker matches a full??

i was just raising the pickup height until it came to a point that it was distorting in the clean channel..then i started lowering it but still the full humbucker sounds louder...