I've been modding guitars since the 70s and i don't mean to be indignant but i don't need electronics lessons, i need to know if there are any SDs or even other brands that have a model that addresses my issue. It's a 2023 Epi LP standard by the way, sorry if i didn't mention that.
So you probably know that what you want is easier with...
1) 50's wiring,
2) pickups with a narrow resonant peak / high Q factor,
3) a low inner parasitic capacitance of coils, like hand wound or at least scatter wound ones, and/or theoretically without wax potting (in order to avoid any added dielectric material between layers of wire)...
Strangely, point 3) has been abundantly illustrated by the experience and reviews of players around the World but remains ostensibly ignored if not denied on web sites devoted to guitar electronics, although it's easy to check: even a simple 5Spice simulation of coils exhibiting low vs high stray capacitance makes it obvious when the volume control is virtually lowered...
Duncan's are not hand wound nor scatter wound but among them and without neglecting the models already named above, I'd consider an unpotted (and therefore Custom Shop) set of Pearly Gates, for instance. IME, this model has the kind of pointy resonance evoked in point 2).
SIDE NOTE and rambling from an old fart - Yesterday, I way toying with the volume controls of a Gibby 69 Flying V (50's wiring) : its bridge pickup (a patent sticker T-Top from the late 60's) has been altered by an unrequested "flash potting" in a previous life but is still... "brilliant"when it comes to keep high frequencies with volume lowered. Same thing with the hand wound Skatterbrane HB mounted in neck position, even if for different reasons... Gives two
examples of other models or brands able to fulfil the needs expressed in this topic.
