What is it about the custom wind with A5......

[lowenzz]

The custom wind with an A5 to me sounds so hollow it appears thin, very focused. Now the A5 mag scoops mids right ? Not so fast.

I have some A5 mags in pups with less resistance than my custom wind. So why does the A5 affect the custom wind so much this way ?

I have another pickup in the low 13k ohms with A5 that is as fat as anything I have found. Yes it does seem to have A5 characteristics, But what is it about the Custom wind that makes it so extreme.

Everything I have learned about pickups for me says for my rockin type tones a C5 would be perfect. But yet it remains an A8

Now I think that the closer the two coils are in winds/resistance, the smoother the vibe, and the wider the variance the more raw/gritty the tone can be. A2pro for instance must have perfectly, exactly the same wind on each coil for instance. That is the smoothest pup I have ever heard.

Don't get me wrong, I am happy tonewise right now.
But this is not making sense to me and I don't want to have to be readmitted to the special kids ward again over trying to decipher Seymours code of tone.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: What is it about the custom wind with A5......

I fail to understand the question. You have an A5 in a Duncan Custom, and you have other pickups with A5s in them that are of a different wind than the Custom, and wonder why the pickups don't sound alike, or at least have the same tonal characteristics (i.e. scooped mids)?

It all works together: wire gauge, number of wraps, actual resistance (vs the spec sheet's numbers), the guitar it's in, what and how you play.

 

[lowenzz]

Re: What is it about the custom wind with A5......

I fail to understand the question. You have an A5 in a Duncan Custom, and you have other pickups with A5s in them that are of a different wind than the Custom, and wonder why the pickups don't sound alike, or at least have the same tonal characteristics (i.e. scooped mids)?

It all works together: wire gauge, number of wraps, actual resistance (vs the spec sheet's numbers), the guitar it's in, what and how you play.

Sorry if I rambled the question. More just a topic for conversation. I just find that the A5 magnets scooped mids seem to really be exagerated in the custom wind. It's the mids I am curious about.

What makes a pickup have more or less mids ? Regardless of body wood or magnets. I have 2 pickups both with A5 and withing .8k resistance of each other. They have both been in the same guitar. The mids are night and day different. I am just curious in a general way why that might be.
More resistance=more mids, less high end.

My lower resistance pup has way more mids with the same mags. It is the opposite of scooped.

 

[flieger67]

Re: What is it about the custom wind with A5......

As Newc said, a pickup is a combination of several factors, of which the magnet is but one. Wire gauge, number of windings, the uniformity or scatter of the windings, the tension of the wire, etc. will also affect a pickup's tone. That's why one can't judge a pickup solely on its magnet or its DC resistance.