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Post by aliensporebomb on Aug 5, 2012 22:58:21 GMT -5
So I was bored recently and since I have a working meter I decided to measure the DC resistance of every guitar I own in terms of pickup DC resistance.
Info on the pickups in the Ibanez Artist:
Neck resistance: 7.15
Bridge resistance: 7.86
(SD indicates these pickups predates the Seth Lover pickups so they may be 59's or the Duncan Jazz model at this point)
Other guitars I measured just because I was new to measuring resistance:
Jackson Soloist Neck: 14.91
Jackson Soloist Bridge: 18.13
That guitar has Kent Armstrong PAF and High Output pickups in it.
Standard Fender Stratocaster Neck: 6.74
Standard Fender Stratocaster Middle: 6.90
Standard Fender Stratocaster Bridge: 6.74
Heartfield EX-2:
EMG SA: 9.59
EMG 89 11.33
Not sure if it's just a boring factoid or not but is kind of interesting statistically.
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Post by chromedinette on Aug 6, 2012 2:30:33 GMT -5
With the Emg's, the measurement doesn't mean much, because you can't see the coils witu the meter.
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Post by aliensporebomb on Aug 6, 2012 9:26:58 GMT -5
Yeah I wondered about that because that 89 bridge pickup seems about four times louder that the bridge pickup on the Soloist. Talk about the hammer of doom in pickup form.
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Post by chromedinette on Aug 7, 2012 5:31:56 GMT -5
EMG's have weak magnets and a low impedance coil that produces a weak output. This is followed by a tiny circuit, potted in epoxy at the underside of the pickup. So metering those just shows the output resistance of the preamp circuit.
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Post by aliensporebomb on Aug 7, 2012 7:54:52 GMT -5
EMG's have weak magnets and a low impedance coil that produces a weak output. This is followed by a tiny circuit, potted in epoxy at the underside of the pickup. So metering those just shows the output resistance of the preamp circuit. Also explains their seemingly endless sustain. It's like they put a compressor on them or something. Weak magnets. |
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Post by chromedinette on Aug 7, 2012 8:15:38 GMT -5
Of course, you can also get the pickups very close to the strings. I had Emg's in my Nitefly and it wonder great.
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Post by ck1 on Aug 7, 2012 8:20:41 GMT -5
Weak magnets in the EMGs is also part of the reason they can get such relatively flat response across the frequencies. Whether that's desirable or not is a debatable point, but for high gain applications, I still love my Ibanez EX with an EMG tele neck pickup and an 81 in the bridge.
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Post by aliensporebomb on Aug 8, 2012 22:06:05 GMT -5
That 89 sings better than any EMG I've ever tried. My old Charvel had S-S-81 with the fat boost and that's not a combination I would try again. Even with the fat boost, the 81 tended to emphasize the trebles a bit too much and the S were obviously for clean rhythms with lots of effects whereas the SA just sounded like real Fender strat single coils, just much quieter.
I love that guitar even if I only played it on 3 songs on "this is" due to the switch malfunction I didn't get around to getting fixed until just recently so I've been playing that and the black strat a lot lately.
Speaking of the black strat, it has a neat feature a lot of strats don't have: the treble pickup is wired to the tone control so I can voice it a little more like a singer instead of a shrieker. Great sound.
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