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soggybag

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Post Re: Burns Pickups?
on: December 11, 2012, 08:35
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After some research on the internet, I turned up a few interesting facts. Seems the unique sound of the "Red Special" is from pickups wired in series, and a scale length of 24".

mwseniff

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Post Re: Burns Pickups?
on: December 13, 2012, 06:09
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Quote from soggybag on December 11, 2012, 08:35
After some research on the internet, I turned up a few interesting facts. Seems the unique sound of the "Red Special" is from pickups wired in series, and a scale length of 24".

A 24" scale is very different from even the the 24 3/4" scale IMHO. I have been a big fan of Jaguars since the 70's. I bought a 1968 Jaguar in 1978 when I was actually looking for a Strat. All the affordable Strats were 3 bolt necks then (Hendrix worship made the Strat prices sky high then). The guy at the guitar store handed me a Jaguar to try and it was one of those guitars that just said "take me home right now" it was candy apple red with a case for $175. Now I own 4 Jaguars and a few other 24" scale guitars and there is something special about the 24" scale. It may be related to the compression of the harmonics along the scale but it is something that makes the notes sort of blend in a smooth manner. Of course to be truly cool the headstock needs to be painted the same color as the body (something Fender seems to have forgotten these days). Add to that the three pickups in series and you have a unique tone. When you put the pickups in series the inductance of the pickups is added together which will definitely effect response. As opposed to parallel where it is divided like resistors in a circuit. With them in series you get a big boost in the lows which may not be directly audible but it will overdrive the circuits that it feeds and make the higher frequencies be effected more than usual.

DavidRaven-
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Post Re: Burns Pickups?
on: March 22, 2013, 22:43
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Quote from smgear on October 24, 2012, 03:03
Supposedly the GFS Brighton Rock are based on the Burns. I haven't tried them, but the clips sound decent. https://www.guitarfetish.com/Brighton-Rock-Vintage-Spec-Alnico-Pickups-Classic-Queen-sound_p_1514.html

They can't be. They are basically strat pickups with big alnico magnets. The Burns Tri-Sonics are much wider coils wound around a ceramic magnet, and the baseplate of the pickup is steel. So it's a totally different design.

In the ad copy he wrote:

I had the privelige to work on the original "Red Special guitar project with the Guild Guitar company in the 80's,

The original Guild version in the 80s used DiMarzio pickups. When I worked at American Showster, the owner, who used to work for Guild, got a set of the pickups to check out. They were the DiMarzio stacked Strat pickups, but with only the top bobbin. So they were very under wound. But even those were not like the Tri-Sonics. But like he says, they aren't the same but he gets a similar tone.

Adeson is the only one who makes them like the real thing. maybe the Duncans are good too.

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