Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: zaraki_fan on April 22, 2008, 01:29:20 PM
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jus a place to suggest crazy pickup ideas and comment on others :D
to start it off how about a calibrated set of warpigs with a ceramic magnet in the bridge and an alnico v magnet in the neck.... wound out of phase with each other like the pg blues set!!!
and now.... discuss! :lol:
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That's not all that crazy.. get a push-pull and mini toggle and you can do the phase shifting on any set of pickups.
I think the craziest idea I've seen here is "what if I wired two übersinners in series".
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not really crazy, but i was just wondering, if you put different grades of alnico in different positions in a single coil, how would it sound? say, alnico V under the bass strings and alnico II under the trebles? and could the same be done in a humbucker, using alnico poles instead of a bar magnet?
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just read the next thread down about magnetic poles in humbuckers! i wonder did i subconciously see that or is it synchronicity!? :lol:
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not really crazy, but i was just wondering, if you put different grades of alnico in different positions in a single coil, how would it sound? say, alnico V under the bass strings and alnico II under the trebles?
I know Seymour Duncan does that on his Five-Two Strat and Tele pickups - AV to keep the bass strings defined and punchy, AII to soften the icepick factor on the treble strings. Never tried them, but sounds a good idea on paper.
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I know Seymour Duncan does that on his Five-Two Strat and Tele pickups - AV to keep the bass strings defined and punchy, AII to soften the icepick factor on the treble strings. Never tried them, but sounds a good idea on paper.
"sigh" every time i have an idea, it seems someone else had it first! well, at least now i know it should work.
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At one point I was planning on doing a humbucker made out of two Pig-90s.
Is that good enough?
I was also thinking of a Mississippi pig (pig-90 in MQ casing) in the neck but if I were to do it I'd probably do it with a New Porker (Manhattan casing).
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At one point I was planning on doing a humbucker made out of two Pig-90s.
Is that good enough?
I was also thinking of a Mississippi pig (pig-90 in MQ casing) in the neck but if I were to do it I'd probably do it with a New Porker (Manhattan casing).
Yup, that is the craziest thing I have heard around here, was about to put that in (although, I thought it was Sambo's idea :P ) but yeah, that would be insane
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Here's an idea I had; One large bobbin roughly the size of a humbucker with two sets of pole pieces and magnet underneath. Kind of like the unwanted offspring of a humbucker and a P90. I'm not sure if you could get enough windings around it to be worthwhile though.
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Be carefull with those crazy ideas. I once thought of a pickup cover that reminded me of the valve covers of an old hot rod engine and within two days BKP came up with the burned chrome cover.
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lol i didnt really expect anyone to pay attention to this thread :lol:
im wonderin... i kno out of phase sounds hollow and thin but how would the high gain, bassy, mid drenched craziness of the warpig sound out of phase? the same?
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Is the out of phase thing actually reversing the phase of the pickup, or just setting one coil from the other?
Think I read that around here?
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... i kno out of phase sounds hollow and thin but how would the high gain, bassy, mid drenched craziness of the warpig sound out of phase? the same?
It'll sound hollowER and thinnER but still pretty powerful, I'd imagine. Could be an interesting option.
Is the out of phase thing actually reversing the phase of the pickup, or just setting one coil from the other?
This is putting two pickups out of phase with each other, by swapping the orientation of one of the magnets or by switching the wires of one pickup (to make red ground and black hot). You only hear any difference when both pickups are on.
You can also wire the two coils of a humbucker out of phase with each other, but it's a pretty useless sound.
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Yeah, Philly, was on about putting each coil out by a switch, relating to Ilyiti's comment
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Yeah, Philly, was on about putting each coil out by a switch, relating to Ilyiti's comment
I was talking about phase reverse of the whole humbucker, the kind that only makes a difference when both pickups are on.
Many of the guitars that Carvin made in the 80s had this switch as a standard, even with quite high output humbuckers.
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Yeah, good idea for a thread. I had thought up some ideas of combining humbuckers that may sound good together, like a rebel yell and a black dog, or black dog and emerald.
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Many of the guitars that Carvin made in the 80s had this switch as a standard, even with quite high output humbuckers.
It's still an option - 10 bucks on ordering I think - on their guitars. I've owned a Carvin with this feature (another with individual select switches but without the phasing/tapping, and a third with individual tap switches with 3 way selector) but I never really found much use for it. I tend to use full-snorting mode most of the time & tap neck if required... I'm just not subtle enough.
I like their sound. A lot of people appear not to...!