scottosan
Well-known member
First, this forum is awesome. I had sent out a handful of pickups and you guys gave me some great feedback and suggestions. I am super stoked and some of the recording people have done for me. I was given permission to use the clips. I will let them chime in if they want to to discuss specifics, but I couldn’t be any more happy with what I have so far. Next leads me to pickup naming. Right now, I’m looking at 3 higher gain offerings
1. The first was a pickup I started out trying offer a higher output EVH type (14.4K) but with a less common “short” A5 magnet that would have likely been in the 61 PAF that so many stories were based on. This ended up taking on a life of its own and suits many more styles than its original intent. This pickup is more clear and tight than standard A2 offerings and sits at an output range that is safe and capable of many genres. The short A5 has the clarity of the standard long A5 without the harsh high end. It’s a little fatter in the mids and faster attack than A2. One of the names I’m considering is the “Sunset Strip”
Dan Travis and his grail Larry 822
Punk clip:
Run through:
2. The second one was an based on a discussion to offer a spec similar to Lynch’s current pickup. It’s a 13.8k with an ALNICO 8. Nearly as strong as ceramic, but a more musical top end like A2 and the mids of an A5. I am thinking about calling this the “Wicked 8”
Some Lynch-esque riffage
3. The third was wanting something with a bit more oomph and low mids. This is a 17.6k short A5. With the output and grind of JB without the nasally mid bump and still retains the openness of lower output pickups and has more thump than the 14.4k predecessor. I don’t have clips of this yet but will be sending 1-2 of these out in the next week for demos and feedback. I haven’t started selling these yet, as I am trying to do this the right way and get some unbiased feedback from the field. No name for this pickup yet.
Thanks for listening!
1. The first was a pickup I started out trying offer a higher output EVH type (14.4K) but with a less common “short” A5 magnet that would have likely been in the 61 PAF that so many stories were based on. This ended up taking on a life of its own and suits many more styles than its original intent. This pickup is more clear and tight than standard A2 offerings and sits at an output range that is safe and capable of many genres. The short A5 has the clarity of the standard long A5 without the harsh high end. It’s a little fatter in the mids and faster attack than A2. One of the names I’m considering is the “Sunset Strip”
Dan Travis and his grail Larry 822
Punk clip:
Run through:
2. The second one was an based on a discussion to offer a spec similar to Lynch’s current pickup. It’s a 13.8k with an ALNICO 8. Nearly as strong as ceramic, but a more musical top end like A2 and the mids of an A5. I am thinking about calling this the “Wicked 8”
Some Lynch-esque riffage
3. The third was wanting something with a bit more oomph and low mids. This is a 17.6k short A5. With the output and grind of JB without the nasally mid bump and still retains the openness of lower output pickups and has more thump than the 14.4k predecessor. I don’t have clips of this yet but will be sending 1-2 of these out in the next week for demos and feedback. I haven’t started selling these yet, as I am trying to do this the right way and get some unbiased feedback from the field. No name for this pickup yet.
Thanks for listening!
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I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel here. I sticking with some pretty well established specs that sound good and can be used to cover lots of ground. Although my preferred use of the shorter A5 magnet is something that I don’t see many people doing, It’s got the clarity and output of a standard long A5 without the shrill top end and is a little warmer in the mids. The main difference being that most high output pickups are machine wound. As you witnessed, you can safely go hotter with hand wound pickups without the congestion and loss of clarity associated withh high output machine wound pickups.