Splitable Pickups
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Re: Splitable Pickups
Everybody and their mother makes splitable pickups (also known as 4-conductor pickups) including Seymour Duncan. I don't think the pickup itself is any different, just the wires that come out of the coils enable you to activate them individually as well as in combination. Or are you asking about a pickup maker that makes pickups that sound more like a strat pickup when split? I hear that a lot about Anderson's pickups, and there's the SD stag-mag, of course.
Everybody and their mother makes splitable pickups (also known as 4-conductor pickups) including Seymour Duncan. I don't think the pickup itself is any different, just the wires that come out of the coils enable you to activate them individually as well as in combination. Or are you asking about a pickup maker that makes pickups that sound more like a strat pickup when split? I hear that a lot about Anderson's pickups, and there's the SD stag-mag, of course.
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Inge Malmstein
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Re: Splitable Pickups
You should try the SH-3 Stag Mag!
Maybe you mean the (ex-) Fender dually-lace-sensors?
You should try the SH-3 Stag Mag!
Maybe you mean the (ex-) Fender dually-lace-sensors?
Re: Splitable Pickups
The main points are:
1) Single coils are usually "hotter" (more winds) than one coil of a humbucker.
2) GOOD Single coils have individual magnets as polepieces instead of one magnet and screws or slugs.
So, for a good split sound, you want a hot humbucker, like a JB, Distortion, etc. For a REALLY good split sound, you want magnet poles - like the mentioned Stag Mag, Rio Grande Tallboys, etc. But these designs also make it sound somewhat different from a normal bucker when you wire it that way, so you have to decide what compromise works best for you. The BEST split sound might be sticking 2 real singles together and using one of them - but that'll be even less like a normal bucker when you wire them together.
The main points are:
1) Single coils are usually "hotter" (more winds) than one coil of a humbucker.
2) GOOD Single coils have individual magnets as polepieces instead of one magnet and screws or slugs.
So, for a good split sound, you want a hot humbucker, like a JB, Distortion, etc. For a REALLY good split sound, you want magnet poles - like the mentioned Stag Mag, Rio Grande Tallboys, etc. But these designs also make it sound somewhat different from a normal bucker when you wire it that way, so you have to decide what compromise works best for you. The BEST split sound might be sticking 2 real singles together and using one of them - but that'll be even less like a normal bucker when you wire them together.
rocketsoul
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I think touchabum might be referring to manufacturers making a humbucker that has magnetic polepieces instead of a bar.
I think touchabum might be referring to manufacturers making a humbucker that has magnetic polepieces instead of a bar.
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Re: Splitable Pickups
4-conductor wire pickups do best with splitting.
4-conductor wire pickups do best with splitting.
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