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Topic: pickup power |
Bill R. Baker
From:
Clinton, MS USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 12:44 pm |
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This question is prompted by the fact that a Forum
member is offering an Electromuse guitar and another
Forum member is offering a pickup for this guitar.
They state that it is 4.75 ohms. I still have my
Electromuse guitar and plugged it up and the tone is
very clear and sufficiently loud. That being the case
why are we using pups with from 17-21 ohms? What would
happen if a pup of 4.75 were placed on my Emmons.
Maybe a dumb question but is not my first. Thanks
for the response.
Bill |
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 4:26 pm
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| A 4.75 Kohm PU on a steel will sound weaker that the more normal 15 to 21 Kohm PUs we use, but a low impedance PU will sound a lot clearer with much wider (higher) and more even frequency range, and give better string-separation, than the high impedance ones do. |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 9:17 pm
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The ohm reading is just one measure of a pickup's power. For example, s Bigsby single cool, even a ten string version, is less than the 4.75k mentioned in the example above and no one will describe a Bigsby pickup as thin or weak. Different magnets, wire size, coil shape, and a lot of iron of a particular alloy makes the Bigsby sound -- not the resistance reading alone.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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