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Topic: Pick-up windings? |
Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 10 Oct 2023 7:45 am |
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I know that I ought to be acquainted with these basics by now, but I'm not.
I'm perfectly happy with my stock s/c pickups in my 2000 LeGrande 111, yet I have no clue as to what they may be wound to!
Would there have been a 'standard' winding at the Emmons Co back then?
Is a lower figure (say '15k) brighter-sounding than 20k or is that the other way around?
I tried a 'search' but couldn't find a specific answer.
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J Fletcher
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London,Ont,Canada
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Posted 10 Oct 2023 8:57 am
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| Yep . 15k is brighter than 20k , everything else being equal , magnets , type of wire , etc . |
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 11 Oct 2023 11:30 am
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| I think that 20k single-coil pickups are fairly rare. Most of the heavy wound single-coils I've seen measured more like 18k. In my experience, you can make an 18k sound pretty much like a 15k with a one-number adjustment of the mid and treble controls. (There's a lot more tonal lattitude in a good amp than there is in a pickup change.) |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 11 Oct 2023 1:29 pm
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DC resistance isn't the same as reactive impedance, so you can't directly measure a pickup with an ohmmeter. That will only measure the resistance of the wire, not the inductance of the coil.
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Stephen Cowell
From:
Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2023 8:27 pm
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| Ian Rae wrote: |
| DC resistance isn't the same as reactive impedance, so you can't directly measure a pickup with an ohmmeter. That will only measure the resistance of the wire, not the inductance of the coil. |
Yet it is how we measure them when comparing them.
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 12 Oct 2023 12:51 am
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Yes indeed. There will be a correlation based on the assumption that makers use much the same gauge of wire.
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 12 Oct 2023 10:20 am
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| Ian Rae wrote: |
| Yes indeed. There will be a correlation based on the assumption that makers use much the same gauge of wire. |
Along with the mass of the magnets.
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