On 21 Nov 2004 10:42:57 -0800, (Jim
Williams) wrote:

(threm) wrote in message . com...
play-on playonATcomcast.net wrote in message . ..
Stock strat pickups are 5.5k to 6.5k ohms. Tele lead pups are around
7k, stock Gibson humbuckers are also around 7-8k resistance.

A lot of the new custom pickups are overwound to far beyond this, up
to 10-14k. They sound like **** IMO but some people like to clobber
the amp imputs.

Al

On 16 Nov 2004 21:16:02 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Okay, what are typical inductances and DC resistances of wirewound pickups?
What kind of numbers should I expect to see?
--scott

There's a 'tone chart' on the S. Duncan site with DC resistance
and Resonance peak of all their pick ups.
http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/tonechart.shtml

I found one of the better ways to "measure" a pickups' frequency
response is to first load the pickup's output with a 1 meg ohm buffer.
I have a 100 ohm "strat" pickup wound by Semour Duncan in 1979 that's
used as a driver to the pickup under test. It's fitted above the "put"
and then fed by an Audio Precision System One analyzer. A nice
print-out of the pickup is displayed. I have a large collection of
guitar and bass pickups frequency response plots on file for
comparison.

Wouldn't it be nice if this information was supplied to the potential
customer? I've never seen this done by any pickup manufacturer. Seems
they want to keep the musicians "barefoot and pregnant".

The frequency respsonse of pickups can only tell you so much... I
suppose it could get people in the ballpark but there are huge
variables when you add the guitar body, what kind of wood, how dense,
type of bridge, etc etc etc.

Al