Syncronicity - we were just discussing the lower/medium/high power thing
here this morning.
Even among the pro pickup makers there is major dissent about the importance of magnet material, from Bill Lawrence who says a magnet is a magnet, to Chris Kinman who believes the magnet is the most important thing. Jason Lollar believes there are tonal differences between the same type of magnet material sourced from different countries. I think the majority believe it makes at least some difference.
telefan100 wrote:
I've read an interview with Chip Ellis (the Fender guy who helped design the EVH pickups) that when he tested the pickup in the famous mid 80's Van Halen Frankenstein (the one in the Live Without a Net DVD) that the one coil was actually shorted out and reading zero dc resistance. ?
Larry DiMarzio had it apart first (I think as part of the development of the Peavey Wolfgang) and he said that Eddie had damaged one coil (what didn't he damage? The guy is a hack luthier ?) so it was
partially shorted. You'll also find that most makers agree that the best sounding PAFs have mismatched coils, giving them a few more single-coil like overtones. DiMarzio have a patent on winding the two coils to the same resistance, but with slightly different wire gauges - which gives the pickup the mismatched coil sound but the same hum-cancelling capabilities as a perfectly matched pair.
