Re: Whatever happened to the Seymour Duncan Super II HB?
After looking at the DC resistance of (12.7K) for the SH6N which I'm being told here is the old Seymourizer II pup and the DC resistance of (16.4K) for the SH4B Jeff Beck pup, I'm not believing what I'm seeing in the tone charts (specifications wise). In old SD literature, Seymour stated that he copied the SH4B JB HB pup after the one found in Jeff Beck's Brown Les Paul Standard as seen on Jeff's "Blow By Blow" album. It was also stated that the pup was like a slightly overwound PAF. I'd say that 16.4K is a helluva lot of difference than lets say a standard PAF DCR of around 8.0K or so. We're not talking about "slightly overwound" here, we're talking "significantly overwound". Even though SD's tone charts state these values, I still don't believe the DCR's. Now I haven't had my Seymourizer II or my JB HB for some time, but my friend has an older JB HB pup. My friend used an old DiMarzio PAF, and JB HB pup together in an early 60's Gibson SG he has. The pickup DCR measurements were within close proximity of one another, and I'll guarantee you that the JB HB pup didn't measure 16.4K DCR. Something fishy is going on here with Seymour Duncan's tone chart. I have noticed Seymour's catering more to the hotter side of pups thang however (just look at the numerous models of high output, hi gain, hot wound pups that Seymour makes, say comparative to his 80's literature and product lines. Hmmmmmmm?
