So,
Let me just say that I have worked with Seymour-Duncan's Custom Shop in the past and they are awesome people. However, DiMarzio really is an amazing on a completely different level. I have been having conversations with one of their tech's and this has gone as far as to actually sending them the sound files from my different guitars and kinda zeroing in on what I am looking for from YelloStrat.
I have been politely asked not to openly discuss the details of their performing artist's discount program, but I can tell you it's really significant.
I had a pretty good idea of what I was looking for when we started out on this little venture. With some input from me and discussions amongst the techs, I think we may have very well come up with what can only be called my 'signature' humbucker.
The build will begin with my preference of a nickel-silver baseplate. The humbucker will use conventional screw-slug bobbins for a "stock" appearance.
The build will use 44AWG poly-coated wire, wound to 8.5k per coil.
The pickup will feature a long, polished AlNico 9 magnet (2.5" x .5 x .125") This magnet has the following properties:
Gauss: 10,500
Oersteds: 1,500
Max Energy: 9.00
Inductance is further increased by adding “special slugs” into the bottom of the coils between the existing slugs and screws.
The screw poles are a little shorter than what’s considered “standard”, which will tighten up and focus things a little bit.
This arrangement has the advantage of increasing the inductance of the pickup without causing a corresponding increase in the pickup's DC resistance and impedance.
Thus, a sound with better tonality and less harshness results.
Additionally, a non-magnetizable material such as aluminum, brass, or stainless is inserted between the poles of the magnet and their respective pole pieces, providing a reduction in intensity of the magnetic field being dependent upon the magnitude of the spacing.
Here's our theoretic specs:
Inductance – 8.505 H
North – 8.254 K
South – 8.239 K
Parallel – 4.129 K
Output - 355Mv
Doesn't look too bad on paper anyways!!!!
Let me just say that I have worked with Seymour-Duncan's Custom Shop in the past and they are awesome people. However, DiMarzio really is an amazing on a completely different level. I have been having conversations with one of their tech's and this has gone as far as to actually sending them the sound files from my different guitars and kinda zeroing in on what I am looking for from YelloStrat.
I have been politely asked not to openly discuss the details of their performing artist's discount program, but I can tell you it's really significant.
I had a pretty good idea of what I was looking for when we started out on this little venture. With some input from me and discussions amongst the techs, I think we may have very well come up with what can only be called my 'signature' humbucker.
The build will begin with my preference of a nickel-silver baseplate. The humbucker will use conventional screw-slug bobbins for a "stock" appearance.
The build will use 44AWG poly-coated wire, wound to 8.5k per coil.
The pickup will feature a long, polished AlNico 9 magnet (2.5" x .5 x .125") This magnet has the following properties:
Gauss: 10,500
Oersteds: 1,500
Max Energy: 9.00
Inductance is further increased by adding “special slugs” into the bottom of the coils between the existing slugs and screws.
The screw poles are a little shorter than what’s considered “standard”, which will tighten up and focus things a little bit.
This arrangement has the advantage of increasing the inductance of the pickup without causing a corresponding increase in the pickup's DC resistance and impedance.
Thus, a sound with better tonality and less harshness results.
Additionally, a non-magnetizable material such as aluminum, brass, or stainless is inserted between the poles of the magnet and their respective pole pieces, providing a reduction in intensity of the magnetic field being dependent upon the magnitude of the spacing.
Here's our theoretic specs:
Inductance – 8.505 H
North – 8.254 K
South – 8.239 K
Parallel – 4.129 K
Output - 355Mv
Doesn't look too bad on paper anyways!!!!
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