Postby raygun85 » Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:48 pm
We have many irons in the fire. We are definitely trying to create a "noiseless" version of the RH-100/Mosrite-style pickup. We've considered "stacked" designs among others. We're also looking into borrowing some noise-reduction ideas from the Lace Sensor pickups. The biggest problem with all of these designs is that, no matter what, they're going to reduce the highs to some degree and we lose the authentic tones. At the moment we're leaning more toward a side-winder design rather than a stacked version. But these plans have been up in the air for several months. The '63 AM has now been put on the back-burner. The pickup orders have exploded into something we never expected it to and my dad is devoting most of his time to winding pickups along with me to try and keep up with the orders. Aside from that he's working on the other prototype for that 60s instro/surf band, which has taken priority over our own guitars. Just like the idea for the coil-tapped Strat-sized pickup, my latest experiment involves a coil-tapped RH-100. The 12.5K coil is tapped at 5.9K to get a cleaner Fender-esque tone and engaged with a push/pull pot. With the wider and flatter coil, we're hoping the pickup will resemble the tone of a Jazzmaster when the tap is engaged. This would give the old surf cats the best of both worlds - the clean and punchy Jazzmaster tone and the hot and dirty tone of the Mosrite with the pull of a switch that doesn't alter the look of the guitar. And of course they'll be available unpotted or wax potted. We'll keep everyone updated...
How dare you presume to inject, using reproducible facts and rational thought, an on-topic discussion into a thread that had degenerated from sarcasm, personal invective, and hand-waving arguments?
