i saw a kit in the stew-mac catalog for building your own pickups. they have both sc and humbucker kits and they list a recommended amount of winds for each. i know the amount of winds has a lot to do with the output and sound of a pickup, but i was wondering what would happen if you went beyond the winding for the hottest pickups? example, it lists a "hot" single coil as having 6-8000 winds. well, what would it sound like if it had 15000 or 20000 winds? would you just end up with a really loud, really muddy pickup? or am i just reinventing the p90? it's too bad i don't have the money to blow experimenting, i'm a typical broke teenage musician :lol:
so does anybody have experience with this sort of thing?
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cool site, very helpful! thanks!
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.
— Ozzy Osbourne
You're welcome. Lots of the indie pickup makers hang out there, probably a lot of the big companies' tech people do, too, and you can learn a lot from them.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Yes, any modification you do to the pickups will effect the out come.
Here's a site with some useful information. Theory and Practice of Magnetic Pickups
Joe
