@freefrog and any other technical-minded members,
I wanted to ask your opinion about a couple of TV Jones pickups. Do you think it would be possible for a Powertron to approximate the sound/behavior of a Classic Plus via an in-line capacitor on a push/pull pot? If so, what value would you recommend? Any other recommendations to achieve this? For reference, the TV Jones website lists the Powertron at 7.8k/4.75H and Classic Plus at 7.8k/2.83H. Thanks so much for your help!
On dummy coils / inductors / chokes as tonal filters changing the voicing of pickups…
I’ve been asked to develop this question. I’ll keep my contribution relatively laconic by lack of free time. thx for your understanding.
SO, it’s possible to use some dummy coil(s) / inductor(s) / choke(s) in parallel with a pickup to change its response.
What does it do?
-It lowers the overall inductance and shifts up the resonant frequency of the pickup, making the sound brighter.
-it lowers the output level. This loss is more or less important, depending on the RESISTANCE of the...
Inductors being not necessarily easy to find, let's keep in mind that dummy pickups can be used instead. A cheap and easy way to obtain a poor's man component adapted to the case discussed above would be to find a cheap MIC rails humbucker measuring 12k and 7H... a kind of Cool Rails B copy, IOW. Bury it in the electronic cavity far from the strings (and pull off its magnet if it's doable), wire it in parallel with the Powertron and it should work.
You're welcome.
If that Fleor Rails HB is sold as "hot", it should have an inductance high enough to act as wanted.
Side note: a dummy pickup used as an inductor might flatten the resonant peak a bit more than desired. If it deadens the tone too much, don't hesitate to change the tone pot(s) in no load control(s) - or to make the tone control(s) switchable, with the same switch than to connect the dummy load: by simultaneously enabling the dummy pickup in parallel to ground and disabling the parallel resistive load of tone control(s), such a switch would/should keep the sound "alive". That's a trick that I've already applied, FWIW.
