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Title: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: Joe6v6 on December 16, 2009, 08:40:49 pm

I just bought a set of Gibson mini-humbuckers to put in a les Paul Special. They are a set, one bridge mh-t & the neck mh-r  http://store.gibson.com/Products/Pickups.aspx
I measured the resistance & they are both the same 6.3k , does this sound right ? I thought the bridge pickup would be a little higher resistance?  please advise,  Thanks : Joe 

Title: Re: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: Platefire on December 17, 2009, 09:38:43 am

Wow! That sounds low even though I've never measured a midi humbucker. I once had a Les Paul Deluxe with the midi HB's and it had lot of kick. That reading you've got is in the vintage strat level! I would think it at least should be around 8K but I'm just guessing? Plate

Title: Re: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: Joe6v6 on December 17, 2009, 11:41:19 am

The vintage minies are low and Gibson claims to build these to those specs, Im more wondering about both pickups having almost the same resistance. If they are both the same resistance, what makes the neck diffrent than the bridge?  Lollar lists his with the bridge at 7.2k and the neck at 6.6k.   Joe

Title: Re: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: bluesbear on December 17, 2009, 11:47:34 am

"Lollar lists his with the bridge at 7.2k and the neck at 6.6k."

Maybe he cares about the quality of his products. Gibson certainly doesn't. Not anymore, not since Ted McCarty left the company.
Dave

Title: Re: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: G._Hoffman on December 17, 2009, 02:54:10 pm

Quote from: Joe6v6 on December 16, 2009, 08:40:49 pm

I just bought a set of Gibson mini-humbuckers to put in a les Paul Special. They are a set, one bridge mh-t & the neck mh-r  http://store.gibson.com/Products/Pickups.aspx
I measured the resistance & they are both the same 6.3k , does this sound right ? I thought the bridge pickup would be a little higher resistance?  please advise,  Thanks : Joe 

That doesn't sound unreasonable to me.  I guess the real question is, how does it sound?


Gabriel

Title: Re: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: Joe6v6 on December 17, 2009, 09:44:32 pm

I think im gona send them back and use Seymore Duncan's minies. I think the gibsons would sound fine, the way these are suposed to sound, but the part about the bridge not being hotter than the neck bothers me. S.D lists their bridge as being a higher resistance than the neck just like Lollar. Maybe the originals were of equal output & thats why gibson has them that way.   .   .   

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Maybe he cares about the quality of his products. Gibson certainly doesn't

  I dont know if gibson dosnt care about quality at all but I sure have heard of more complaints about gibson products lately & there even seems to be a movement of people who are dead set against the direction they have taken.   ..    Joe

Title: Re: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: billcreller on January 31, 2010, 05:03:14 pm

Ive had a bunch of pickups from Jason Lollar, and rewinds. He seems to know what he is doing.  The position of the pickups is a factor too, with the bridge being more sharp/treble etc.

Title: Re: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: tubesornothing on January 31, 2010, 06:42:47 pm

Lollar's stuf is great.  He makes a tele neck pickup to die for...

Title: Re: Pickup resistance ?
Post by: G._Hoffman on January 31, 2010, 08:21:59 pm

Quote from: billcreller on January 31, 2010, 05:03:14 pm

Ive had a bunch of pickups from Jason Lollar, and rewinds. He seems to know what he is doing.  The position of the pickups is a factor too, with the bridge being more sharp/treble etc.

He does great work.  I tend to use Lindy Fralin, partially because I have a fairly long standing relationship with him.  He, too, does great work.


Gabriel