LOLLAR, what do you mean by OPEN Coil? you mentioned the Raw Power Humbuckers use an OPEN coil. It would be nice if you mention the percentages of the magnetics materials like the percentage of iron, nickel, etc
We don't refer to them as "open coil" in-house, so we can only assume that Brian was referring to the fact that it's an uncovered humbucker, so the coils are exposed. As for the specs, there are a few reasons why we don't share that info, primarily to protect our trade secrets. And also because that information doesn't translate directly into how the pickup sounds for the average customer. It's much like DC resistance alone; it's doesn't necessarily tell you anything appreciable about the pickup without having knowledge of many other aspects of the design as well.
@@LollarPickups oh ok thanks, thats to bad you don't mention the percentages of the alloy compositions because the DC resistance is only telling how much Copper winding adding the copper to the alloy of the magnetics and pole pieces. What I have been told is that more copper adds more darker tone plus add a mid bump and rolls off the high end. Adding more iron to the pole pieces will add more inductance but adding more iron in the Alnico magnetic and pole pieces will also add more 60hz hum. But I guess you can't tell what Lollar pickups does because to protect the trade secrets
@@LollarPickups Why doesn't Lollar Pickups come out with a Passive Tone Pot that can get different frequency profile curves to get different pickup profiles curves and shapes? A sweepable pf capacitors and sweepable pH or uH inductors will change the frequency profile curves of the guitars cheap stock pickups
This is an interesting idea. Though we tend to stick with what we're good at. We figure the folks that want to do this sort of thing can and will do so. We focus our resources on designing and building the best possible pickups that we can, and we'll let the players do with them as they will. Some folks are purists and don't want anything that wasn't originally found in vintage instruments in theirs, while others are more open to improvements and modernizations. By putting our efforts into the pickups that we build and not straying too far from that path, we're able to accommodate both sides of the debate and allow them to make as many or as few modifications to their own circuits as they wish.
While alloy composition may have some effect on the resistance reading of a coil, there is a much bigger correlation to the gauge of the coil wire. A thicker wire will pass voltage with a lower impedance and a thinner wire will have greater impedance. It's very much like a hose. That is, if you send the same amount of water through a garden hose and a fire hose, the water will shoot a few feet out of the end of the garden hose, whereas the water will barely trickle out of the end of the fire hose. This is due to back pressure, with back pressure being an analog for impedance or DC resistance. The same amount of voltage passes much more easily through a bigger coil wire than it does through a smaller wire, due to the smaller wire having greater "back pressure". So DCR can only tell you something about either the coil wire *gauge*, if you know the length; OR the coil wire *length*, if you know the wire gauge. Without these specs, it's not particularly useful in knowing how the pickup will sound. If all things are equal (same wire, same magnets, same pickup design), then an increased DCR will tell you that the coil is wound more, resulting in a higher output with increased low end response and less treble frequencies. So, the long explanation as to why we don't share a lot of this info is because, for most people, it's irrelevant to knowing the actual sound of the pickups without playing them. We would basically have to offer the whole recipe for any of it to be of any appreciable help in describing the pickups' tone, which is something we're not going to do, as a means of protecting our IP. Many other manufacturers list DCR simply because it's something that the customer can easily confirm without expensive specialized tools, even if it doesn't relate to the actual sound of the product. As virtually useless as DCR is, it's become the industry standard all the same, so it just keeps showing up on pickup descriptions from most manufacturers.
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LOLLAR, what do you mean by OPEN Coil? you mentioned the Raw Power Humbuckers use an OPEN coil. It would be nice if you mention the percentages of the magnetics materials like the percentage of iron, nickel, etc
We don't refer to them as "open coil" in-house, so we can only assume that Brian was referring to the fact that it's an uncovered humbucker, so the coils are exposed.
As for the specs, there are a few reasons why we don't share that info, primarily to protect our trade secrets. And also because that information doesn't translate directly into how the pickup sounds for the average customer. It's much like DC resistance alone; it's doesn't necessarily tell you anything appreciable about the pickup without having knowledge of many other aspects of the design as well.
@@LollarPickups oh ok thanks, thats to bad you don't mention the percentages of the alloy compositions because the DC resistance is only telling how much Copper winding adding the copper to the alloy of the magnetics and pole pieces. What I have been told is that more copper adds more darker tone plus add a mid bump and rolls off the high end. Adding more iron to the pole pieces will add more inductance but adding more iron in the Alnico magnetic and pole pieces will also add more 60hz hum. But I guess you can't tell what Lollar pickups does because to protect the trade secrets
@@LollarPickups Why doesn't Lollar Pickups come out with a Passive Tone Pot that can get different frequency profile curves to get different pickup profiles curves and shapes? A sweepable pf capacitors and sweepable pH or uH inductors will change the frequency profile curves of the guitars cheap stock pickups
This is an interesting idea. Though we tend to stick with what we're good at. We figure the folks that want to do this sort of thing can and will do so. We focus our resources on designing and building the best possible pickups that we can, and we'll let the players do with them as they will. Some folks are purists and don't want anything that wasn't originally found in vintage instruments in theirs, while others are more open to improvements and modernizations. By putting our efforts into the pickups that we build and not straying too far from that path, we're able to accommodate both sides of the debate and allow them to make as many or as few modifications to their own circuits as they wish.
While alloy composition may have some effect on the resistance reading of a coil, there is a much bigger correlation to the gauge of the coil wire. A thicker wire will pass voltage with a lower impedance and a thinner wire will have greater impedance.
It's very much like a hose. That is, if you send the same amount of water through a garden hose and a fire hose, the water will shoot a few feet out of the end of the garden hose, whereas the water will barely trickle out of the end of the fire hose. This is due to back pressure, with back pressure being an analog for impedance or DC resistance. The same amount of voltage passes much more easily through a bigger coil wire than it does through a smaller wire, due to the smaller wire having greater "back pressure".
So DCR can only tell you something about either the coil wire *gauge*, if you know the length; OR the coil wire *length*, if you know the wire gauge. Without these specs, it's not particularly useful in knowing how the pickup will sound. If all things are equal (same wire, same magnets, same pickup design), then an increased DCR will tell you that the coil is wound more, resulting in a higher output with increased low end response and less treble frequencies. So, the long explanation as to why we don't share a lot of this info is because, for most people, it's irrelevant to knowing the actual sound of the pickups without playing them. We would basically have to offer the whole recipe for any of it to be of any appreciable help in describing the pickups' tone, which is something we're not going to do, as a means of protecting our IP.
Many other manufacturers list DCR simply because it's something that the customer can easily confirm without expensive specialized tools, even if it doesn't relate to the actual sound of the product. As virtually useless as DCR is, it's become the industry standard all the same, so it just keeps showing up on pickup descriptions from most manufacturers.