Wouldn't it be cool if they made a pickup that.....

[eclecticsynergy]

EMG has done the heavy lifting for solderless design, both active and passive. Just standardize that header connector, and the speed and ease that you could demo other pickups would be amazing.

Yah. standardization is the hurdle. I think most pickup makers would prefer their own products were the most convenient option.

 

[Securb]

Wouldn't it be cool if they made a pickup with a neural link so you could control the level of sustain with your mind? Kind of like a Sustainiac but no switches, just brainwaves

With the brain power I have seen from some of the people around here you are not talking about a hell of a lot of sustain.

 

[El Dunco]

A pickup that could flush-mount as an inlay on or be integrated into the 24th fret so you can have 24 frets and retain the 24th fret harmonic sweet spot for neck pickups, or a pickup with adjustable position just like the Gibson Grabber, but it also lets you adjust the slant (from straight to slanted like a strat in either direction.)

 

[Securb]

A hot DiMarzio wired normally-parallel with a pull-for-series pot could probably do that pretty well...

Usually, when doing that, there is always one great tone and one that is slightly lacking. Outside of the P-Rails, I can not think of any pickup that at the beginning of the design phase coil splitting or series/parallel is taken into consideration. And even with the P-Rails, most people are not fans of all three settings, most have two they dig. I would love something that sounded in the range of a Custom/Custom or even classic output like the WLH, hit the push/pull and you have a Black Winter.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Usually, when doing that, there is always one great tone and one that is slightly lacking. Outside of the P-Rails, I can not think of any pickup that at the beginning of the design phase coil splitting or series/parallel is taken into consideration. And even with the P-Rails, most people are not fans of all three settings, most have two they dig. I would love something that sounded in the range of a Custom/Custom or even classic output like the WLH, hit the push/pull and you have a Black Winter.

Maybe sliding ceramic spacers into a UA5 Custom using sort of a lever action.
You'd need to support for the bobbins when the ceramics are slid out, of course, but it could be done.
The question is, would it be worth the trouble?

 

[eclecticsynergy]

I've seen humbuckers where one coil was tapped for a stronger split tone, like Zhangbucker's 'Splat' option.
(I have one and it's pretty great, like all of David's winds that I've ever used. Still have them all.)

But has anyone ever made a humbucker where both coils were tapped?
Light symmetrical wind to a heavy asymmetrical wind using a regular DPDT push-pull.

 

[IMENATOR]

- Quarter pound stack
- True single coil for better notch positions in HSH
- A single coil sized hb in middle position in HSH that gives you the clean tone of the Jazz neck

 

[Ascension]

A matching neck Hybrid humbucker for the 59/Custom and offer them as a full Hybrid set.

 

[jeremy]

Would love a pckup that would allow me to boost my mids or go from medium output to high output with a push/pull

i love the blackout singles for this reason. you can add a jumper to two pins on the bottom of the pup to go from medium output to high output. i wired the neck and bridge pups to a p/p switch so i can get the high output when i want it. i also have an emg spc mid boost in that guitar. i wish duncan made a mid boost like the spc that could be used with passive or active pups

 

[Securb]

The Fluence pickups also have two distinct voices. I wish someone would do this with a passive pickup.

 

[Mincer]

A matching neck Hybrid humbucker for the 59/Custom and offer them as a full Hybrid set.

The 59 itself is a good option for the neck pickup. I could see maybe a 59/A2P Hybrid as a neck pickup.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Would love a pckup that would allow me to boost my mids or go from medium output to high output with a push/pull

I’d buy that in a heartbeat.

 

[LLL]

I don't have any need to solve any problems with pickups in general... I know what tones I like, I can solder and I practice regularly... except that when I want bacon, my pickup never complies.

So, bacon pickup.

 

[Securb]

I've seen humbuckers where one coil was tapped for a stronger split tone, like Zhangbucker's 'Splat' option.
(I have one and it's pretty great, like all of David's winds that I've ever used. Still have them all.)

But has anyone ever made a humbucker where both coils were tapped?
Light symmetrical wind to a heavy asymmetrical wind using a regular DPDT push-pull.

Maybe a pickup with stacked coils? Instead of a stacked single, a stacked humbucker. Flip a switch, and the extra winds kick in on both coils?

 

[jeremy]

thats a tapped pup. and tapped humbuckers can be made. its a bit of a pita to do it well but itll be louder and fatter with less high end cut on full output. ive done this with single coils a bunch but buckers get trickier since you want the coils to be humcancelling so you need to actually wind the coils in the opposite direction as opposed to just flipping start and finish, or put down 30% of the coil then add the tap on one coil and the tap at 70% of the turns on the other for example.

best result i had was 6500 turns for both coils for the low output, then adding 1500 more on one coil and 2000 more on the other so there was an uneven wind when going high output to retain a little more cut. it was a pita or i might have kept tweaking the number of turns and wind pattern

 

[Securb]

Get to work, buddy I would like an A6 in my build.

 

[jeremy]

im out of a6 mags LOL plenty of a2, a3, a4, a5, and c8 bars since i bought those in bulk. might have a few a8 still. as soon as my gig schedule slows a bit, ill wind something up for ya. its a pita but i love ya

 

[PFDarkside]

thats a tapped pup. and tapped humbuckers can be made. its a bit of a pita to do it well but itll be louder and fatter with less high end cut on full output. ive done this with single coils a bunch but buckers get trickier since you want the coils to be humcancelling so you need to actually wind the coils in the opposite direction as opposed to just flipping start and finish, or put down 30% of the coil then add the tap on one coil and the tap at 70% of the turns on the other for example.

best result i had was 6500 turns for both coils for the low output, then adding 1500 more on one coil and 2000 more on the other so there was an uneven wind when going high output to retain a little more cut. it was a pita or i might have kept tweaking the number of turns and wind pattern

That sounds like an awesome next-gen forum bro pickup.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

thats a tapped pup. and tapped humbuckers can be made. its a bit of a pita to do it well but itll be louder and fatter with less high end cut on full output. ive done this with single coils a bunch but buckers get trickier since you want the coils to be humcancelling so you need to actually wind the coils in the opposite direction as opposed to just flipping start and finish, or put down 30% of the coil then add the tap on one coil and the tap at 70% of the turns on the other for example.

best result i had was 6500 turns for both coils for the low output, then adding 1500 more on one coil and 2000 more on the other so there was an uneven wind when going high output to retain a little more cut. it was a pita or i might have kept tweaking the number of turns and wind pattern

That's exactly the way I'd pictured it.

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Do Parallel Axis pickups in other colors than black count?

Haha, I was thinking the same thing when I read the thread title .

Also agree about the complementary neck hybrid to go with the 59/C.