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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Premiered Apr 22, 2024 ^^
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RYD date created : 2024-05-03T21:05:34.974173Z
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Hey Dylan:
How cool it was to meet Rene Martinez. Stevie's #1 was a 1962 body, a 1963 neck, and had 1959 pickups. In '59 Fender supposedly
used .0030 OD formvar, 7925 turns, TL/TG and north up alnico V's @ 5.95k. They didn't make specific pickups for the bridge, middle and neck, nor were the middle pickups RWRP. Do you think the variation you measured was just a product of hand guided winding and inconsistency in the number of winds? In those days there was considerable variation in winding the pickups. I've never read that he intentionally selected each pickups output. Maybe they just sounded right?🤔
What did Rene say?
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I had a set of shielded pickups in my strat and it did lose some high frequencies as you pointed out. Everyone who tried it out said my strat sounded "really dark for a strat". It was cool but not my cup of tea. I eventually swapped them out for a set of nice low output traditional stat pickups and never looked back.
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Years ago I saw it was suggested to leave a small gap with the wrapped copper tape to minimize high frequency loss, like 1/8 to 1/4 inch.
So most of the coil gets wrapped, that small 1/8 inch is left unwrapped
I've done it and was happy with it.
Might be worth trying to see if that "frequency saving gap" is just another myth.
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Glad you brought up the Texas Special pickups. Being a SRV fan that I am, I purchased a Fender SRV Stratocaster with those in them. I found those to be very harsh and almost gave the guitar away cheaply. Then a friend said switching a loaded pickguard in was super easy. I bought an EMG David Gilmour set and have not looked back. Do you think you'll be marketing the pickups in the video either separately or in a loaded pickguard?
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Great video. SRV was my hero when I started playing (still is too). So glad I saw him quite a few times early in his career. Great explanation on this mod he had. I like how you describe that the way he got around the tone on low output pickups was the fact that he played hard. Another thing to note was that he used heavy gauge strings and high action which really facilitiated his heavy technique. Also he used a dummy coil (i belive a P-bass coil without the magnets) in at least one of his guitars. I believe you mentioned this before. That would make a great video. Again, great video and thanks for all you do for this community.
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Great video! That's a beautiful guitar. Talking about noise - I have one room that is properly isolated so that even single coils are almost noiseless... and then I have my bedroom where there's something running in the wall causing any guitar (even humbuckers and actives) to pick up a whole bunch of unwanted EMF.
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@jeffcooper3433
3 weeks ago
I've been telling my friends about low output pickups since the early 80s. Now they are starting to listen. Thanks, keep up the good fight and KeepSmiling!
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