Dude! Welcome back! Congratulations on your daughter, and I have been there in the children's hospital. That's a rough thing to go through. I'll keep you guys in my prayers.
I once read in a very old book that Seth Lover said he added the screws to give sales people something to brag over Fender slugs. and Gibson Dirty Fingers use two screw coils. he also said the orientation of screws closer to neck and bridge was purely for looks. good stuff. i enjoy your experiments and have committed many such acts myself.
There’s also a connection to the P90s screws. The P90 was originally fixed in place so the screws were necessary. Come up the humbucker it’s continuing a feature for marketing’s sake.
@@sundogaudio851 That's why the screws are adjustable. Its pretty noticable . Try it. Its more an attack thing. Once the tone gets going its very close , if not the same. Seth was pulling the guys leg a little.
Null results are every bit as important as non-null results! I always enjoy your videos, but prioritizing family over videos is always the right choice.
Hey brother, glad to see you here again. Congrats on the new family addition… it’s a wild ride and one that is well worth it. Don’t stress making us happy here on YT, we will be here ready to watch whatever you bring whenever you bring it. Truly stoked for you man. I’m glad everything turned out good. Must have been some scary shit.
It is, probably goes back to a bunch of random guys simultaneously having light bulb moments in the 60's trying to fix their broken pickups. If you search YT and the internet in general it is not a new idea, and you will find dozens doing the same thing but they usually hook up a mechanical counter or use a calculator with a reed switch so you can get exactly what you are looking for winds count wise.
Welcome back brother, family first is always the best and right option. Glad your daughter is okay now man. Looking forward to some more craziness from you. 🎸
Congrats on becoming a Pappa! Welcome to the club! I'm so glad to hear your little one is doing ok! Bro, every time I watch your videos you find a way to make me smile. I appreciate how upbeat and positive you are, for real! Have a blessed 2025 Man! I look forward to your wacky antics this year!
I just went looking for you about a month ago! I'm So glad you're back! CONGRATULATIONS! It aint easy having a sick baby. Got one myself and hes about to turn 10. Don't know what she has or had but all you can do is put one foot in front of the other.
I hear a difference, but its probably best with on of each as they are normally although I might try them in the opposite direction. Co grats on your baby! She's beautiful!
I experienced same effect when experimenting with stacked P90, literally tone is in the hands moment. I think the difference because of different force of the strumming. He's super saiyan not a machine after all.
Once you run out of 42 gauge, consider replacing it with 40 or 38 gauge. I've heard crazy things from the very few 38 and 40-gauge humbucker videos I could find, especially when they were wound under 6k total. Also, now that you're back and everything is okay, don't forget the other video ideas we've tossed your way such as my two for "series vs parallel humbucker with the same final DCR" or "stacked Jazzmaster bobbin Filtertron with 38ga wire and a rail pole piece"
You can also make an even more drastic mod, where you remove the bar magnet entirely (replacing it with a piece of wood to keep everything at the same height) and put alnico slugs. It'll behave more like a wide range humbucker
Some coils have the slugs in the plastic so the wire doesn't touch. Those can be removed. Some coils have the slugs thru the plastic, so the wire touches. Those can't be removed. On Squire Strats yes ; on the Teles no.
dude heavymetalATC is the reason i started to change my slug coils on all my pickups and swap the slug coils around till you find a better sound... its unreal what difference it makes
Happy New Year, brother. It's still a cool and valid experience. It just made me happy to see the notification of your new video. All the best wishes for the new lovely family 🤘
I love your channel, when you do stuff, it is preddy much how I would do it too. Get er done, make her work. life gets pretty dull with out your videos. Thanks and happy new year. Glad little bit is going to be ok.
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Happy New Year. So glad to hear things are on the up. Does your multimeter measure impedance? With all the pickup experiments you do that would seem an extremely useful bit of info. Dedicated LCR meters are not all that expensive.
World's Best Baby Pictures. And what a head turning entrance to the dance called life on earth! Super fine working's Proud Mama and Pa! Yep, she's a stunner. Yet another one, in my Joyful prayers forever and then some ,,, loved the video, first time here.
Good to have you back. Theres a YT demo of old school 60s screws vs todays screws. ( Actually its bolts in p ups not screws). The 60s are less harsh sounding. Not everyone hears a difference, some do but don't care, some do and order some from ebay, like me. Slight difference,but for a few cents for improvement, why not.
Good to see you back. I loved your homemade P90. What if you took a humbucker, attached an extra magnet on the outside of it along one of the bobbins, and then split the humbucker to that coil? Would that coil with magnets on both sides sound like a p90? This way you could get a pup that switches between humbucker and p90 instead of between humbucker and lousy split humbucker.
Dude. Thems are LEAN & MEATY! Wowzers. I don’t know why but The low ohm pickups sound 10 times better that any high output pickups, all day long. You rock, & in Santa pants!😆😂🤣🤘🏼🎸🔥congrats on the new tribe❤️
Dude. Thems are LEAN & MEATY! Wowzers. I don’t know why but The low ohm pickups sound 10 times better that any high output pickups, all day long. You rock, & in Santa pants!😆😂🤣🤘🏼🎸🔥
You can hear a difference w the screws raised above the coil . Its like a Fender p up w flat magnets vs protruding magnets. W screws flat , pretty similar, as you found.
Not much difference, slug coils had a tad more oomph in the low mids but it was slight! Congrats on the bub! GLAD to hear her heart's been fixed and she's doing what babies do best!
Do you have a favorite brand of cheap pickups? I usually go for Wilkinson but there's even cheaper ones under other brands on Amazon but I have yet to try those since i dont have a lot of money to spare for my hobby and didn't wanna gamble 😂
now do screw head size lol see if those big hex head screws on invaders are worth a damn lol My favorite pickups are GFS Loudmouths which just use big ass slugs.
Hey clem i wanna make a amp but idk how to read schematics and the amp i wanna make is a selmer treble and bass 50 its my dream amp because syd barrett used it and i would love if you could make a video on how to make a selmer treble n bass amp thanks
My prediction is that the difference in sounds will be minimal unless you're swapping from having non magnetic pole pieces with a magnet on the bottom to rod magnets pointed at the strings. I'm firmly of the belief that the orientation of the magnets is the biggest deciding factor in the sound.
That would make a significant difference because the original blade in the pickup isn't magnetic, it's magnetised by contact with magnets in the base like a regular humbucker. Depending on the orientation of the north and south poles of the magnet that you use, you'll get radically different results.
from My point of view - listening to it over a High Tech System attached to my PC = I could HEAR the SLUGS were better sounding over all ! the Screws were Higher pitched & Shrill sounding
Heard a definite difference, even through these little laptop speakers. Slugs by a nose. I thought the screws would sound better. I was wrong. That doesn't happen often. Savor the moment. I'm glad to see '24 in the rearview mirror. Lost both of my parents and my dog in '24 (all due to natural causes - so at least there's that one consolation). Looks like you have a pretty great life. Good on ya. May it stay that way.
Pickups have a ton of variables. I have done experiments as well. Like I have some Epiphone Dot Pickups which test around 8.5k that I didn't care for the tone. So, you think if I swap the magnet with a cool killer magnet from a late 60's Gibson Patent Sticker T-Top it will sound way better, Nope. I pretty much sounded just like the shitty Epiphone pickup she always twas. I did similar with a 70's Japanese ceramic pickup that had way to much top end, I figure put an Alnico 2 in she will mellow right out, Nope. Point is it seems like the steel type of the pole pieces matter, the size and shape of the coil matters, spacing of the poles, the base plate material matters whether brass, nickel silver or steel, If the coils are closely matched in wind number or further apart in the DC ohms measurement, the wind pattern etc etc etc etc. My point is the only way you could really tell a difference in all screws vs all slugs is if you had used the same bobbins configured identically, carefully measured the heights and just swapped the poles with the screws while obviously not changing any settings on anything. Happy Christmas and Merry New Year.
Nah, it was always just for securing the pickup cover to the rest of the assembly before they were permanently soldered to the base. Goes for all pickups with screw polepieces, with the exception of wide range pickups where the screws are the magnets.
Because typically a single coil pickup has rod magnets and in order to have screws in place of them you'd either end up with a completely different sound or you'd need to source magnetic screws which are hard to come by. The sad truth is that messing with the screws doesn't really do much.
The reason they make adjustable pick-up poles is so you can tune individual string output, as in to raise the output of individual strings, literally a mechanical EQ. You want your tone to be like ice picks in your ear, raise the B and high E string poles, you want your tone to be mud, raise your low E and A poles, you want midrange punch, raise your D and G string poles. You want a TRUE Strat sound when coil splitting? Adjust your poles to mirror a Strat staggered pick-up poles. IT'S THAT SIMPLE!
My friend drinks brake fluid... He's addicted to it, but he says he can stop anytime he wants! Happy New Year!
Is his name Skank?
Dude! Welcome back! Congratulations on your daughter, and I have been there in the children's hospital. That's a rough thing to go through. I'll keep you guys in my prayers.
Wake up babe new heavymetalATC video just dropped!
I once read in a very old book that Seth Lover said he added the screws to give sales people something to brag over Fender slugs. and Gibson Dirty Fingers use two screw coils. he also said the orientation of screws closer to neck and bridge was purely for looks. good stuff. i enjoy your experiments and have committed many such acts myself.
There’s also a connection to the P90s screws. The P90 was originally fixed in place so the screws were necessary. Come up the humbucker it’s continuing a feature for marketing’s sake.
Of course it's probably 23 different variables as to why those will never sound exactly alike
@@sundogaudio851 Raising the screws changes the tone. Its like a flat Strat or Tele bridge vs with the magnets protruding.
@@terryenglish7132 you can verify that in a blind test?
@@sundogaudio851 That's why the screws are adjustable. Its pretty noticable . Try it. Its more an attack thing. Once the tone gets going its very close , if not the same. Seth was pulling the guys leg a little.
Null results are every bit as important as non-null results! I always enjoy your videos, but prioritizing family over videos is always the right choice.
Clementine!!!!!!!
Aww man, we’ve TOTALLY missed you, brother! No one does it like you, and you do it damnnnn well 👊🏽🔥🦅
Hey brother, glad to see you here again. Congrats on the new family addition… it’s a wild ride and one that is well worth it. Don’t stress making us happy here on YT, we will be here ready to watch whatever you bring whenever you bring it. Truly stoked for you man. I’m glad everything turned out good. Must have been some scary shit.
Hell yeas! Glad your daughter is doing well! It’s damn good your back man!!!
That sewing machine pick-up winder. What a great idea 💡
Very old idea actually, I think first pickups were wound exactly that way :)
It is, probably goes back to a bunch of random guys simultaneously having light bulb moments in the 60's trying to fix their broken pickups. If you search YT and the internet in general it is not a new idea, and you will find dozens doing the same thing but they usually hook up a mechanical counter or use a calculator with a reed switch so you can get exactly what you are looking for winds count wise.
Welcome back brother, family first is always the best and right option. Glad your daughter is okay now man. Looking forward to some more craziness from you. 🎸
That kid is going to have such an awesome life 🎉
Glad you’re back!
I will add you and yours to my prayer list.
Congrats on becoming a Pappa! Welcome to the club! I'm so glad to hear your little one is doing ok! Bro, every time I watch your videos you find a way to make me smile. I appreciate how upbeat and positive you are, for real! Have a blessed 2025 Man! I look forward to your wacky antics this year!
Congrats on the addition to the family, so adorable, happy new year.
Hey, glad you're back. Congratulations on having two beautiful best friends! Looking forward to more from you.
Happy new year from Australia. Love the videos mate, keep it up. All the best to you and your little family.
Glad you’re back. Love to see all the experiments you do. And congratulations on getting the family well.
Thanks for talking fast. You're brilliant.
I just went looking for you about a month ago! I'm So glad you're back! CONGRATULATIONS! It aint easy having a sick baby. Got one myself and hes about to turn 10. Don't know what she has or had but all you can do is put one foot in front of the other.
Congratulations on your daughter! ❤
I hear a difference, but its probably best with on of each as they are normally although I might try them in the opposite direction. Co grats on your baby! She's beautiful!
I experienced same effect when experimenting with stacked P90, literally tone is in the hands moment. I think the difference because of different force of the strumming. He's super saiyan not a machine after all.
My baby boy will be 20 this year. Enjoy every moment, they go by faster than you think they will.
Hope you had a good Christmas and new years.
Once you run out of 42 gauge, consider replacing it with 40 or 38 gauge. I've heard crazy things from the very few 38 and 40-gauge humbucker videos I could find, especially when they were wound under 6k total. Also, now that you're back and everything is okay, don't forget the other video ideas we've tossed your way such as my two for "series vs parallel humbucker with the same final DCR" or "stacked Jazzmaster bobbin Filtertron with 38ga wire and a rail pole piece"
You can also make an even more drastic mod, where you remove the bar magnet entirely (replacing it with a piece of wood to keep everything at the same height) and put alnico slugs. It'll behave more like a wide range humbucker
Some coils have the slugs in the plastic so the wire doesn't touch. Those can be removed. Some coils have the slugs thru the plastic, so the wire touches. Those can't be removed. On Squire Strats yes ; on the Teles no.
@terryenglish7132 yeah, but for humbuckers, I'm yet to see one that doesn't use plastic bobbins
dude heavymetalATC is the reason i started to change my slug coils on all my pickups and swap the slug coils around till you find a better sound... its unreal what difference it makes
Great Great Great to see Ya! I missed the vibe so much. My daughter turned 18 last year man, all the best luck my man. Its a fantastic and scary trip.
Happy New Year, brother.
It's still a cool and valid experience.
It just made me happy to see the notification of your new video.
All the best wishes for the new lovely family 🤘
the legend is back!!
Clem is back! Welcome back buddy, hope you and the fam are well!
Happy new year 🥳
I love your channel, when you do stuff, it is preddy much how I would do it too. Get er done, make her work. life gets pretty dull with out your videos. Thanks and happy new year. Glad little bit is going to be ok.
Your kid's beautiful, bro. Congrats!
He’s back!
It's about damn time
Hell yeah, live that good life!
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Happy New Year. So glad to hear things are on the up. Does your multimeter measure impedance? With all the pickup experiments you do that would seem an extremely useful bit of info. Dedicated LCR meters are not all that expensive.
World's Best Baby Pictures. And what a head turning entrance to the dance called life on earth!
Super fine working's Proud Mama and Pa! Yep, she's a stunner. Yet another one, in my Joyful prayers forever
and then some ,,, loved the video, first time here.
Good to have you back. Theres a YT demo of old school 60s screws vs todays screws. ( Actually its bolts in p ups not screws). The 60s are less harsh sounding. Not everyone hears a difference, some do but don't care, some do and order some from ebay, like me. Slight difference,but for a few cents for improvement, why not.
Good to see you back.
I loved your homemade P90. What if you took a humbucker, attached an extra magnet on the outside of it along one of the bobbins, and then split the humbucker to that coil? Would that coil with magnets on both sides sound like a p90? This way you could get a pup that switches between humbucker and p90 instead of between humbucker and lousy split humbucker.
You and your friend made a doobleydoo 🎉
Dude. Thems are LEAN & MEATY! Wowzers. I don’t know why but The low ohm pickups sound 10 times better that any high output pickups, all day long. You rock, & in Santa pants!😆😂🤣🤘🏼🎸🔥congrats on the new tribe❤️
Dude. Thems are LEAN & MEATY! Wowzers. I don’t know why but The low ohm pickups sound 10 times better that any high output pickups, all day long. You rock, & in Santa pants!😆😂🤣🤘🏼🎸🔥
Clem!!! Where you been?! I thought you were abducted 😂 thanks for the new material. I’ll have questions (again). Great stuff man!🤘🏼
You can hear a difference w the screws raised above the coil . Its like a Fender p up w flat magnets vs protruding magnets. W screws flat , pretty similar, as you found.
Not much difference, slug coils had a tad more oomph in the low mids but it was slight!
Congrats on the bub!
GLAD to hear her heart's been fixed and she's doing what babies do best!
you could also do giant screws like SD Invader has and a X2N-style rail.
I don't hear any differences here but pole/rail should have some.
Screws are there because in the 50s, Gibsons sales team requested them as a sales tactic
Screws...hands down...meaty'r and creamier and can be adjusted...
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Do you have a favorite brand of cheap pickups? I usually go for Wilkinson but there's even cheaper ones under other brands on Amazon but I have yet to try those since i dont have a lot of money to spare for my hobby and didn't wanna gamble 😂
Sir how about a rail and invader pole humbucker. Been in my mind for years i dont see a humbucker on that configuration.
now do screw head size lol see if those big hex head screws on invaders are worth a damn lol My favorite pickups are GFS Loudmouths which just use big ass slugs.
Hey clem i wanna make a amp but idk how to read schematics and the amp i wanna make is a selmer treble and bass 50 its my dream amp because syd barrett used it and i would love if you could make a video on how to make a selmer treble n bass amp thanks
Need a collab with Jim Lill
My prediction is that the difference in sounds will be minimal unless you're swapping from having non magnetic pole pieces with a magnet on the bottom to rod magnets pointed at the strings.
I'm firmly of the belief that the orientation of the magnets is the biggest deciding factor in the sound.
what if we replace the metal rail in the hotrail pickup with a neodymium bar?
That would make a significant difference because the original blade in the pickup isn't magnetic, it's magnetised by contact with magnets in the base like a regular humbucker.
Depending on the orientation of the north and south poles of the magnet that you use, you'll get radically different results.
@@casanovafunkenstein5090 has anyone done this before?
from My point of view - listening to it over a High Tech System attached to my PC = I could HEAR the SLUGS were better sounding over all ! the Screws were Higher pitched & Shrill sounding
Heard a definite difference, even through these little laptop speakers. Slugs by a nose. I thought the screws would sound better. I was wrong. That doesn't happen often. Savor the moment.
I'm glad to see '24 in the rearview mirror. Lost both of my parents and my dog in '24 (all due to natural causes - so at least there's that one consolation). Looks like you have a pretty great life. Good on ya. May it stay that way.
Check out Railhammer pickups then 👌🏻
@@chrisparker5278 Will do. Thanks.
i like the screws better. more airy, less bottom push
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Pickups have a ton of variables. I have done experiments as well. Like I have some Epiphone Dot Pickups which test around 8.5k that I didn't care for the tone. So, you think if I swap the magnet with a cool killer magnet from a late 60's Gibson Patent Sticker T-Top it will sound way better, Nope. I pretty much sounded just like the shitty Epiphone pickup she always twas. I did similar with a 70's Japanese ceramic pickup that had way to much top end, I figure put an Alnico 2 in she will mellow right out, Nope. Point is it seems like the steel type of the pole pieces matter, the size and shape of the coil matters, spacing of the poles, the base plate material matters whether brass, nickel silver or steel, If the coils are closely matched in wind number or further apart in the DC ohms measurement, the wind pattern etc etc etc etc. My point is the only way you could really tell a difference in all screws vs all slugs is if you had used the same bobbins configured identically, carefully measured the heights and just swapped the poles with the screws while obviously not changing any settings on anything. Happy Christmas and Merry New Year.
I thought the adjustable pole pieces were meant to allow you to adjust the distance of each one from the strings.
Nah, it was always just for securing the pickup cover to the rest of the assembly before they were permanently soldered to the base.
Goes for all pickups with screw polepieces, with the exception of wide range pickups where the screws are the magnets.
Finally!
I found the cheapest way to get cheap humbucker parts was to buy cheep humbuckers and take them apart...
Why don't single coils have screws? That's where need them because they always burry the magnet underneath the b string.
Because typically a single coil pickup has rod magnets and in order to have screws in place of them you'd either end up with a completely different sound or you'd need to source magnetic screws which are hard to come by.
The sad truth is that messing with the screws doesn't really do much.
nice shit but your pedals at the bottom right of the screen are quiet useless
please keep on experimenting and drink hairspray
The reason they make adjustable pick-up poles is so you can tune individual string output, as in to raise the output of individual strings, literally a mechanical EQ. You want your tone to be like ice picks in your ear, raise the B and high E string poles, you want your tone to be mud, raise your low E and A poles, you want midrange punch, raise your D and G string poles. You want a TRUE Strat sound when coil splitting? Adjust your poles to mirror a Strat staggered pick-up poles. IT'S THAT SIMPLE!