Suhr silent single coil system...

[Suhr]

Re: Suhr silent single coil system...

Here is a link to the patent for the design. There are two trim pots on the circuit board. One of them will bypass the dummy coil and the other is like a tone control.

http://www.blueguitar.org/new/misc/patents/pat_20050204905_chiliachki.pdf

I bought a roll of 32GA magnet from Fry's ($3.99 for 400') and hand wound it as a dummy coil, but I haven't tried using it yet. With heavy gauge wire you can wind it by hand, and in whatever shape you need (like to fit under a tele bridge pickup).

The trims are not tone controls and it really isnt a dummy coil by any traditional sense of the word. Also the trims shown in that patent are not the actual setup being used, we have perfected it since then. You will find that by the time you put enough wire on that dummy coil of yours to equal the amount of the hum the bridge pickup produces and that fits under the tele bridge you will have ruined your high end tone by the amount of wire you will need and will have inductance which will destroy your low end response. The key to this system is that there is really very little DC resistance and more important no inductance to speak of, that is why there is no tone change. Designing a coil to do this really isnt as simple as it might seem, there is precise physics and math behind this if you really want to get rid of all the hum. Our internal installed system has less hum than a humbucker

 

[Mephis]

Re: Suhr silent single coil system...

I'll stick with my ISP Decimator. It costs half as much, works with any guitar, and actually works without screwing up your sustain or making you have to re-wire something.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Suhr silent single coil system...

^Gates....bleh!

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Suhr silent single coil system...

I'll stick with my ISP Decimator. It costs half as much, works with any guitar, and actually works without screwing up your sustain or making you have to re-wire something.

Different strokes for different folks, but we all know the best way to test a product is to never see or try one in person and decide based on hearsay (Re: "Without screwing up your sustain" = neither does the Suhr, at least not as far as I can tell ) :beerchug:

Either way, a Noise gate is a completely different principle and use altogether... not to mention the whole "True bypass" and "tonally true circuit" discussions.... I have an Alesis 3630 in my rack that I highly prefer disengaged, simply because I hate the feel of a gate opening and closing... It´s essentially only for Studio use or really noisy live environments....

 

[tone4days]

Re: Suhr silent single coil system...

thanks for joining in Suhr ... do you use a helmholtz coil, or similar technology to achieve the results?

and to the guy who suggested using a superswitch to 'reverse the polarity', i am pretty sure that won't work ... you can devise a scheme to reverse the 'wind' with a switch, but not the polarity ... as i understand it, the magnets (i.e. pole pieces) of a single coil pup are physically installed with either North or South pointing up ... cant reverse it on the fly ... i wonder if there's be a market for a middle pickup 'rotisserie'? ... feel free to patent it and send me a check ... we can split it 50-50

t4d