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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Marco78 on September 27, 2013, 03:47:04 PM

Title: Symmetrical/Asymmetrical pickups
Post by: Marco78 on September 27, 2013, 03:47:04 PM

Hi boys, some BKP pickups are heavily assymetric (like Mule or VHII), but what do you mean with "heavy assymetric"? 20% of different between two coil? More? Less?

And assymetric bobins give more high, while symmetric give more middle frequencies, but for bass frequencies?

Title: Re: Symmetrical/Asymmetrical pickups
Post by: ericsabbath on September 27, 2013, 07:23:58 PM

asymmetric delivers more bass as well
some of the bassiest models are very asymmetric (nailbomb, vh2, miracle man)
the warpig is very bassy and is symmetric, but it gets heavily overwound to achieve that

Title: Re: Symmetrical/Asymmetrical pickups
Post by: Dave Sloven on September 28, 2013, 01:35:57 AM

The A-Bomb is very 'hairy' - the 'hairiest' in the BKP lineup I'm guessing - and some people have attributed that to the asymmetric winding.  The A-Pig has a lot more bass but generally sounds a lot smoother than the A-Bomb

Title: Re: Symmetrical/Asymmetrical pickups
Post by: Slartibartfarst42 on September 28, 2013, 09:45:31 AM

My experience with the asymetric Nailbomb bridge is what put me off getting a VHII neck the last two times I've been looking for a neck pickup. Perhaps the neck is different and it's just the bridge that is heavily asymetric but I didn't know and didn't want to take the chance.

Title: Re: Symmetrical/Asymmetrical pickups
Post by: Dave Sloven on September 28, 2013, 09:55:54 AM

Is the Painkiller another asymmetric one?  It seems fairly hairy too

Title: Re: Symmetrical/Asymmetrical pickups
Post by: Marco78 on September 29, 2013, 09:46:26 AM

Does someone have measured a kohm of two different coil of this pickups?