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smgear

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Post Re: Unorthodox Humbuckers
on: October 2, 2012, 16:39
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great. I'm excited to hear the results. Those do sound fantastic in the clips.
joe
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Post Re: Unorthodox Humbuckers
on: October 4, 2012, 20:22
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Dang! You guys know a lot more about pickups than I do! I've never heard of a lot of the models you're citing. Tell me more. 🙂
smgear

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Post Re: Unorthodox Humbuckers
on: October 5, 2012, 03:15
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Joe, can I suggest that you add a wiki plugin or some kind of notes/media database to the site so we can list/classify/describe our favorite gear/circuits/links to web resources/etc? I'm an add/ocd researcher in real life so I keep notes on pretty much any gear that I find to be interesting, unique, best in class, 'sleeper', exceptional value or whatever. So I'd be happy to sort through those and post a bunch of stuff if there was a good way to catalog it. Just a thought.

But to reply to the actual comment. The Kinmans are well worth checking out. He uses a pretty unique set of magnets/bobbins/windings (twice the components in regular pickups) to get some extremely clear, balanced and unique sounds in the underwound/p90 realm. Creamery and Bareknuckle both make a couple of really great ..... let's call them transitional winds(somewhere between PAF/P90/filtertron). Harmonic Design also seems to have the right formula for both underwound PAF and HB size P90. The Eastwood Airline pickups come pretty close to the old valco style windings. GFS makes some good cheap HB size P90 and filtertron clones, but to be honest, they just don't do it for my ears. However, some of their other lines, like the Brighton single coils sound satisfyingly distinctive and are very inexpensive.

Thecoslar

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Post Re: Unorthodox Humbuckers
on: October 5, 2012, 12:20
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I've been emailing back and forth with Jaime, the guy who runs The Creamery. His favorite pickup is the old school Fender Wide Range Humbucker, so a lot of his really distinctive pickups borrow from that. He makes two different wide range sized pickups- a classic vintage model and a more modern sounding model with a tighter bass and a punchier midrange. He also makes a vintage style wide range model that fits in a regular humbucker route. What I think he does best, and what he does more of than I've seen from other makers, are humbucking pickups that fit in a humbucker route, but sound ridiculously close to single coils. He based these models off of the old Wide Range Humbucker mod where 3 of the threaded magnets were removed from each bobbin leaving a hum cancelling single coil tone from the remaining pickup. He makes a few different models, and they all sound fantastic in the videos he has up. I really like the stuff he puts together, and I can't wait to get my hands on mine. They're a bit pricy though, and shipping from England isn't cheap either.
Double D

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Post Re: Unorthodox Humbuckers
on: October 24, 2012, 01:26
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I just got a partscaster tele with TV Jones almost-Filtertrons and it sounds great! So airy and detailed that it's hard to believe they're humbuckers, but thick enough that you get some humbucker wooliness along with all the clarity. Cool pickups, very different from any other I've used. Exceptional on the tele!

magnetmons-
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Post Re: Unorthodox Humbuckers
on: February 3, 2013, 06:51
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How about making a hummer out of two real single coils? if you use a cheap, lower output pup and a brighter (more expensive one, then when in hum (full) mode, it'll sound balanced, and when going for a split coil, it'll sound like a regular single? if you go for a three cord wire (on that one), could you possibly tap (not split) it as well

Or am I talking out of my jack? 🙂
smgear

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Post Re: Unorthodox Humbuckers
on: February 3, 2013, 13:03
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it's a fair point. Variations on that concept have been released by several pickup manufacturers (SD P Rails is a good example) as well as by guitar manufacturers (Some of the early Blade designs with stacked singles come to mind). I like both approaches, but the main issue is that the more distinctive you make each of the 'singles', the more difficult it becomes to balance/match the resistance. So it's possible, but you've got to do the math when selecting the different pups.

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