Gibson Double Slug Pickups???

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Very strange to see these 'DSC' pickups from the lower priced Gibson's....

They appear to be quite low output.

What advantage - if any - would double slug have over slug/screw???
 
The Gibson Zero I had for a while had the double slugs in them - I liked them, not stellar, but if they came in a guitar stock I'd leave them in.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Very strange to see these 'DSC' pickups from the lower priced Gibson's....

They appear to be quite low output.

What advantage - if any - would double slug have over slug/screw???
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Tony M. said:
Way less expensive to manufacture.
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^^^This.

Don't read too much into the various oddities Gibson has pursued over the years.

Not everything has a real purpose to it other than economics.
 
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Hmmmm....

I need a couple of humbuckers for a project. I happen to have a pair of these Gibson DSC's. They use #42 copper wire, 5,400 winds on the bridge and 5,250 on the neck pickup. Resistance values are 8.2k bridge and 7.9k neck. Both are ceramic.

They sound decent in this video...


What I have discovered about my guitars is that I tend to favor brighter, 'Bite - E - er' pickups to keep my sound as mid-range and punchy as possible for the most clarity...


 
smitty_p said:
^^^This.

Don't read too much into the various oddities Gibson has pursued over the years.

Not everything has a real purpose to it other than economics.
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Don't forget though that Seth Lover's original patent indicates two rows of slugs, no adjustment screws:


They were added at the request of Gibson's marketing department because they thought it would be hard to explain why they had been omitted. Lover stated in interviews over the years that the screws were just not necessary and didn't make any difference to the tone (I personally agree with this, I've never detected any difference moving just the screws, only when I move the whole pickup, and of course a Firebird don't need no stinking screws to sound great).
 
gball said:
Don't forget though that Seth Lover's original patent indicates two rows of slugs, no adjustment screws:


They were added at the request of Gibson's marketing department because they thought it would be hard to explain why they had been omitted. Lover stated in interviews over the years that the screws were just not necessary and didn't make any difference to the tone (I personally agree with this, I've never detected any difference moving just the screws, only when I move the whole pickup, and of course a Firebird don't need no stinking screws to sound great).
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Interesting!!! I did not know that!!!!
 
Robert Herndon said:
Interesting!!! I did not know that!!!!
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Even in the description it's clear: "Positioned at longitudinally spaced intervals along both sides of the magnet 11 are pairs of upright cylindrical soft iron cores forming pole pieces 13 and 13A, there being a pair of pole pieces for each of the strings 2 of the instrument. At their lower ends the pole pieces abut against the side :edges of the magnet 11 and are held in place by the magnetism of the magnet."
 
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