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Topic: Thoughts on C6 single coil resistance |
Keenan Friday
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Magnolia, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2014 3:19 pm |
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I once bought a back pickup for my mullen pre royal precision guitar and the resistance was 19k. This pickup sounded very hot and thick sort of like a humbucker pickup to my ears. Was never quite happy with it. This was to replace a single coil that went bad and was very thin.
But sometime later I put that single coil that went bad back into my guitar and practiced on stage in a church with a friend and loved the tone it produced when I turned my amp up to get the desired volume from such a low volume pickup.
Yet the volume was so extreme between the e9 pickup and c6 pickup that when my amp was turned up for c6 I was extremely loud for e9. and vice versa.
I hear people say all the time that you want more wounds on c6. but honestly I might be happy with the same wounds for both necks..
Im just wondering what are other peoples thoughts on the subject. Thanks
Keenan
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Keenan Friday
Mullen Pre Royal D-10, Walker Stereo Steel, Hilton pedal, George L cables, Livesteel Strings, (White) Fred Kelly thumbpick, Dunlop .025 fingerpicks |
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Justin Griffith
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Taylor, Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2014 4:36 pm
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I may be different than most, but for a single coil (Emmons/Sho~Bud) I like:
E-9 12.5-15.5K
C-6 14-17K
I never found any reason they needed to be any "hotter". That said, I prefer the tone on all those great things done in the 60's.
Give Jim Loessberg a listen. That is the tone I really aim for (but do not achieve).
That said, a light pickup could sound terrible on a modern guitar....
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Keenan Friday
From:
Magnolia, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2014 4:55 pm
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I use a 17.5 on e9 that I switched to from stock mullen 22k and noticed that brightness was more clear round not sterile as before. Use this 17.5 and simply don't see why I couldn't have that or maybe even 17k on c6 (though Ive never put one on).
(Side Note)Loessberg and mike Johnson have persuaded me to keep my peavey Nashville 400 even after reading so many reviews on here of people speaking of the better amps and such. Those 2 guys(in my opinion) just have a sound you don't desire to adjust. Just perfect to the ear.
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Keenan Friday
Mullen Pre Royal D-10, Walker Stereo Steel, Hilton pedal, George L cables, Livesteel Strings, (White) Fred Kelly thumbpick, Dunlop .025 fingerpicks |
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Justin Griffith
From:
Taylor, Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Apr 2014 5:18 pm
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Yeah, I had a later model P/P come through here with a 22K. It was dead and lifeless. A pickup swap fixed it right up. Try the 17.5 on the 6th neck. It wont cost anything but time. I have a feeling you will like it.
Those Nashville 400 amps are just hard to beat. For a good powerful reliable amp, they are all you need. I have a couple and always will.
Jim and Mike are 2 of my very favorite players also. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 21 Apr 2014 3:28 am
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Why not send that bad single coil to Jerry Wallace? Under a hundred bucks and it's repaired. And he'll make it as hot or light as you want it (or for a few more bucks, he'll tap it if you want to throw in an extra switch. I'd go for 16 with a tap at 12)
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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