Dude I've been researching pups and a pick up aficionado for the last 3- 4 years. I'm obsessed, have to change pick ups every 6 months. This is like pick up porn, great channel man.
Every 6 months,ur doin real good. LOL I only say that because i got bit by the same bug a few yrs ago. I loved it, it was great fun. And I got pretty good at changin em n a short period of time . And my wife got into it as well. After all that ,had duncan jazz set n lp,, lolars in strat, and demarzios in sg. Still there.
I am thankful someone understands this, and is covering this stuff. I am not a beginner player at all, but I want to know a lot more about this stuff, hopefully you cover it all as simple as possible, thanks.
An add on topic to this could (if you haven’t already) be the impact of how close you place your pick ups to the strings in conjunction with their output numbers.
Just a question: "Tone" is a product of voltage and current from pickup winding. Does AlNiCo make different volts and milliamperes from ceramic (neodymium, whatever?) According to theory all volts are the same. But amounts and z-curves are different. The difference between two cases you described will mainly just be output voltage. Different reamps react differently to different levels of input signal -your EQ pedal can give you all the proof you need. Not Kemper though.
If you play a guitar and you really like that sound it can help you greatly in choosing which pickup to look for. I particularly like the sound of the alnico 5 humbucker at 12k for the bridge.
@Gar Goil For some it may take 1 minute others 2 or 3 for others it may take watching the video 2 or 3 times. Some may never get it...but they may hear by experiencing the sounds for themselves. Which is better??? Only what matters to each as an individual is my guess. 😎👍🏽🎶🔥♥️🔥🎶
I bought a high output pickup because I thought that because my telecaster was really heavy it wouldn't resonate as much. I love the way it sounds but does my original premise make any sense?
Hey Pallie, can you SHOW us the difference in how it sounds? That would help also. Yeah I may seem pushy and a little in a hurry, but No one ever taught me a damn thing, until I asked about it a lot, and got super involved in the subject. Only way I got anywhere, jump in and go for it!
In a DC circuit, the ratio of voltage to current is called resistance. However, in an AC circuit this ratio is known as Impedance, Z with units again in Ohms. Impedance is the total resistance to current flow in an “AC circuit” containing both resistance and inductive reactance. This is what you are addressing, but inductive reactance is difficult to explain to people with a limited technical background.
Yep. There are so many variables when it comes to pickup construction that make up it’s tone that you cannot just go by the resistance number. For instance, the SD Full Shred pickup reads slightly over 14k and it is FAR from muddy.
Hi Dylan, love all your tube! i am a sciences teacher and i play bass. during Covid i learn soldering, how to wires guitar from zero i need help that chinese guitar need a fix and this diagram look like nothing on the net working for weeks how to dio this... till i find you channel and now i can draw my own circuit and why i draw it that way for that reason... love you educational value. As a sciences teacher i give you A+ in matter of clarity and knowledge, not mean to share. I am looking to understand whar i want as new Jazz Bass Pickup and this just help me so much... decision will be long for sure...but at least i know what i am really loking for. Honnestly i felt in Love with Fralin Humm cancel Jazz Pick Up ... but i know at the end i will buy them from Dylan Pickup ... Cause i know at the end i will know what i ask for...and what i get and if i am not happy it will be cause i didnt ask for what i want.. You Rock at things
i got the biggest baddest pickup config and i still blast my room with wide cleans, seems articulate enough for me. i do not know what to believe from what you are saying when you talk about pickups, i've been a sub for a long time
I know Bill Lawrence measured his pickups in Henrys which seems to be more inclusive as to the magnet used and end result of its design output vs. resistance and how much wire is in there. It would be nice if specs like this were also included for us to ponder.
Best pickups i have are my 1989 duncan parallel axis and just got a mojotone 44 mag and love it to. Dont know why the parallel axis isnt more used mines 33yrs old and still massive
Thank you Dylan for sharing so much knowledge about pickups and the rest of guitar-whizzardry , wonderfull explained for us noobs! Helps a lot to get a bit behind the magic of gheetars👌😃 As for my personal preference in pickups I am happy with a overall ballaced low-to-mid output pickups. Preferably Alnico II for humbuckers and Alnico 5 on singlecoils. I like them to have stringdefinition in medium gain and to replicate the unplugged voicing of the guitar. The rest of tone I want to achieve by my playing, by changing pot- and cap-values, by fiddling with all possible knobs and rafining the points of contact of the strings with the body and neck.
Very clearly explained and useful I like how you grab the tone chase at the beginning- a guitar and the amp. I always found electrics that I loved acoustically, then hunted for pickups that brought THAT sound forward. More often than not, a too-hot or especially an active pickup would drown out what the guitar was truly capable of. This seems to work for me. Just the guitar and the amp, playing with how it goes from clean to dirty to pissed and back. How do I explain to them when I want the neck pickup to sound like the fat lady at the opera? Think evolution neck pickup or the Gibson neck pickup slash uses? I don’t want to buy a dozen of them looking for that sound.
Hello Dylan...would you be able to make pickups with a combination stagger......specifically an ascending pole stagger from low E to D....and a flat pole stagger from G to high E....how much do you charge for a set shipped to Vancouver Canada? Thanks .....Ramon
Dylan, hey, just wanted to know.. what is the best combo of pots, caps, pickups etc.. to get the hugest, way hugest thickest Hendrix-Stevie Ray type tones ever, using a Stratocaster.? I also have great amps.. 1965 Bassman, and 1968 Fender Twin reverb. That is the tone I like the best. Got a few pedals, like the Ibanez TS9 turbo but they are probably not necessary with the right guitar set up and these amps. I would need plenty of highs and lows, plus obviously strong midrange too right? I cant stand harsh screechy screaming tone, no ear piercing nonsense, just a huge perfect singing tone.
I'm still a novice when it comes to guitar gear and I've got a friend who says low output pickups are better for metal because they don't distort on their own before getting to the amp. He says that means you can craft your distortion tone with more precision using pedals than you can with a high output pickup. Would you guys agree with that?
The answer is always: it depends. A high gain, compressed modern amp will likely have more cut and expressive sound with a more modest pickup. A crunchy rock amp can get just the right amount of push for the perfect saturation with a higher output pickup. Generally I have made the experience that a great PLAYER will sound better and more like himself when he/she uses something not overly hot to get their sound.
best info I have come across yet. No I no who I will be ordering my next pickups thru, and based on what I heard here they should be the last ones I need.
Really nice talk, Dylan! Thanks... Have you done something similar about pickup polarity and configuration and their influence on the sound one is aiming at?
For low to medium output I've had the best experience with Alnico mags. For higher output I think ceramic rules. I use high output ceramic pups for more metal-oriented stuff, and low to medium alnico, often Alnico for more traditional classic rock. I'm not a fan of Alnico 2 or 8. Alnico 4 and 5 work best for low to medium. I find that when you get into higher output that Alnico loses clarity and gets muffled, the harmonics stop shining. Just my experience.
Why do some tele schematics have the capacitor on the outside lug of the tone pot, but others have the capacitor on the middle lug. I couldn't tell by looking at your pre-wired harness where you put yours.
EBay has some telecaster wireing with all this push pull wah and capacitors dripping off the thing damn treble bleed and mind boggling, they do have some high end EVH and other pots for sale there, worth a look, I bought 2 250s and they are night and day to what I have, with big names creating them, emg etc
I once swapped magnets on cheap single coils, and it drastically altered the sound of both for the better (in my opinion). I think I'm starting to understand why that would be. I'm guessing one was ceramic, and the other was alnico.
I need help, I thought the first frequencies to be attenuated were high frequencies that is why tinny high bitch single coils use low resistance pots in order to tame the high frequencies. How do low resistance pickups have harsh highs, I would imagine they are more low and mid focused and if anything would sound woofy and muddy.
Personally my ideal pickup set would be scooped mid in the bridge, to help blend with the bass n drums and boosted mids in the neck for smooth soloing and to stand out from the rest of the band... With some moderate output. I use a JCM800 so for me the toggle switch becomes my channel selector.
Thanks Dylan. My question; I have a tone control on my guitar, one on my reverb pedal, one on my delay pedal, one on the tremolo pedal, three on my American sound pre-amp and three on the PA amp. What is the best way to balance all this tone?
hey Dylan I know this is an old day I don't know if you go over the comments or not but I appreciate the video the matter when it was made. Of the hottest pick up Scion in my guitar which came stock was my twenties is my 2017 firebird it came with the mini humbuckers ceramic and they are really really hot or really reallyare there really really high resistance pickups and surprisingly enough when you play with it and you told the volume back on the guitar or maybe the tone a little bit they clean up surprisingly well really well and they certainly do give you an aggressive sound when you have everything wide open. And I just pulled the trigger on Tuesday for a gretsch g5422t with theand I just pulled the trigger on Tuesday on the gretsch g5422t hollow-body with the blacktop filtertron and that I assume is going to be my lowest output pick up in a guitar I own I also want another guitars of course and guitars and which I have at the moment and then I'm getting each guitar is something I would pick up for a specific need or specific sounds that I'm looking for a lot of professional musician I'm not a recording musician but I still you know I assume I'll pick up the racks for rent one reason yesterday for another my Ibanez for another I guess you got it you know nothing is a duplicate of the other in my little world of anyway thanks again for your pickupanyway thanks again for this video I also watch all your current one so listen to them consultants considering that I'm severely legally blind which leads to this little statement please excuse typos misspelled words lack of punctuation etc I suffer from mr. Magoo syndrome I'm not illiterate or the lots of my friends like to say that I am anyway I suffer again I'm severely blind severely legally blind using Speech-to-Text sincerely yours, Bob the blind measuring guitarist
It would be good to actually give some thought into why some people use higher output pickups vs lower with more clarity. Is it because they use pedals? Is it because they want to drive the amp? Is it they type of amp/pickup combo? Maybe string size is affecting what's output? Like Tony Iommi uses a super low gauge string size with massive output pickups. I don't think a lot of these question have ever been answered
I have a question for you if you can tell me. What is the reason of the pickup wires behind you in this video being twisted? I'm kind of new to wiring of guitars and still learning even though I have only been a player for 34 years. So yes there are many things I do know over the years, but there are people who just never get into tinkering with stuff and would rather just play. Well over the years that has changed for me and I am wanting to learn more.
What kind of “output” gives a jangly to grinding kind of sound, like some of the gold foils? Also, if all other parts are equal, what is the difference in sound in say a 10k 43gauge vs. 10k of 42gauge?
So, i have a schecter ultra 3 with filtertrons, low out put. Its like 4k in the bridge, i raise the bridge p.u. and it sounds amazing, but i need a little more. I was thinking of getting a vintage alnico 5 in there....However I'm afraid im not going to get that huge thick sound, i might get tv Jones filtertron pickups that push around 9k 10k. Anywho, i have one of the worn epiphone classics, alnico classic pro pickups... that pushes around 8.4, when i ever i turn up my rat distortion past 12 and play/strum aggressively..it sounds like the speakers are kind of fading in n out, or losing volume with each strum attack. I play through an ampeg micro vr bass amp into a 320 watt crate cab, seventy 80 speakers.. Not the best cab but a better built crate than other crates.. its gwar approved....Tone sounds great it just fades in n out intermittently. I have bass eq, mid and treble dimed out...is it the pickups that cant handle the aggressive down picking or the amp? It happens with the les paul, schecter sounds great, ive tried adjusting the eq but it still happens. Sorry, i know its a lot to digest...I just ripped a fatty blunt
yeah allot say bad about, seymour duncan invader, emg’s seymour duncan blackouts. a good high gain amp with duncan invaders is killer for metal, highs are not harsh but perfect for heavy stuff.
More winds means more capacitance which in theory retains most of the energy. It can’t make the magnetic field any stronger, example, high winding resistance will not increase the magnetic field in a low Gauss magnet.
I’m having a chambered body guitar made. I play lead, and like to shred some bluesy doom metal. Would the high out put pickups work with a chambered body?
After long time with exeperiments of pickups and wires, for me best sounding pickup is lower output pickups. I use steel screws and neo magnets, awg 42 , humbucker series 10kohm. Sound so good, low the bass mids and treble from pickups perfect in balance for me. I crank gain on amp little more and thats it.. When i use frends jazz bass from 70' s and p bass they have alnico 2 i think pickups, and have low output too.. but sound was amazing.. In this modern days everything needs to be hot, pumped, like steroids or plastic girls. If it doesnt its not good.. same with guitar and pickups.. ✌🏻🌻
Hey Dylan, do you know anything about those mp90 pickups in the fender player series "Mustang" 90 ? (I keep reading that they're "hot" and now i think that might mean they're wound more times with a cheap magnet like you say?)
Dylan, the simple option is tha I want to get a high sustain and warm tone. Whats it take when you running out of a high gain amp and pedals double stack gain distortion or other wise gain advantage setups
I'd say sustain is more relied on build quality of the guitar, its mass and the amp you're using. Output doesn't make that huge a difference at high gain settings.
it surprises me that your channel has been putting out good content for this many years, but i didn't discover it until a month or so ago. how is it you don't have 10 times the subscribers? i don't get it.
Hey Dylan thanks for your videos please excuse any typos I am legally blind I have a few questions for you I'm hoping you'll be able to answer them it's on ceramic pickups number one is a ceramic magnet and Pickups necessarily always bad Dee always cheap number two do you make any pickups with ceramic magnets and if not why and I guess the third one is I own a 2017 Firebird 5 or Firebird T it's got the mini humbuckers in it when I spoke with Gibson customer service hours a day cooking about those pickups they seem to be compared to what I've heard many others are supposed to be so they told me overwhelmed coils they told me though that sonically this should be pretty close to the original mini's I seen your video on the Epiphone Lucille with the ceramic pickups and the way they sounded and reactive or not at all the way my pickups react Gibson mini humbucker thank you for your time my pickups are pretty Dynamic when everything is on 10 and I have the Distortion or overdrive cooking it's pretty hot pretty loud pretty aggressive but as I roll down the volume it cleans up and if I roll it down quite a bit it cleans up to almost it's like crystal clear and then as I Roll Up the Volume switch back to extend the Distortion comes back and that's not at all what I saw on your Epiphone Lucille video as far as clarity and the difference between rolling back pots my pickups don't seem to act like that at all please information you can give me on this type of pickups and or specifically on the Gibson 495 mini humbuckers I greatly appreciate it in the paragraphs or typos because I am legally blind I use speech to text and a lot of times it doesn't work that well thank you again doing I appreciate all your videos and all the knowledge that you share and I do hope to get a reply
When I play my Les Paul with burstbuckers or my SG which have Lindy fralin pure paf neither of them are particularly high output and the range is somewhere between 8 and 8.5 at the Bridge and around 7- 7.5 at the neck. Both have tremendous clarity, and I play either guitar on a clean amp like a Fender Princeton, or a mid gain amp like a old Marshall or Bassman or a modern high gain amp, I can get any tone for anything I would play. When I play the various amps I own, I can get the gain I want to see you then without pedals to Crazy levels that are too high for my taste and from my perspective I believe I can play in a metal band oh, but I'm sure there are plenty of real metal players that would probably consider the pickups to be inconsistent with the gain on the amp and maybe they'd want something hotter or an active pickup. I can certainly get everything from super clean Funk and soul and even jazz, I can get dirty Blues or hard blues rock like Zeppelin and I can get into shred territory like something you'd hear from early Van Halen, Richie Kotzen Joe Satriani and 80s metal like Warren demartini or George Lynch. I don't have any desire to sound like Dimebag Darrell and that's about as heavy as any music I listen to. what are you guys into?
I've been all over the internet looking for what can cause my problem. I've got a telecaster pickup ,2 leads (hot and ground ) plus small wire grounded to back plate of pickup. My pickup is almost dead on b string and very low on g string. My question is, could poor soldering cause this problem.
i wound a single pole pickup that measured 0.23K ... and it has a really strong Earth Magnet..... it has lower output on clean....but with Overdrive, it Wails! ..... do you see this as a good or bad thing>? ... 0.23K seems really Low...but i think itll sound good.....maybe
Another oldie, I know, but… How can one A/B pickups without having to buy a load of them and swap them in and out - I mean, that’s the ideal, yeah? It’s REALLY difficult to even find a starting point - Like I *believe* I want an Alnico II Humbucker of around 5-7k resistance. I’ve no idea of what it actually will sound like - those two ‘data points’ are all the guitarist has to go on, especially if they’ve no experience of different pickups. Sound samples aren’t much good, as compression, cruddy PC speakers, etc all distort the original sound being heard as the guitar was recorded. And then, as you point out, there are all the minutiae of the pickup - winds and wire/insulation sizes, overall inductance at, say, middle C. Very rarely do you see these kinds of details published by manufacturers. And what do they even mean in specific tone? What are these for Peter Green’s pickups? And so on. I think DiMarzio kicked off the whole fixation on how many ‘k’ a pickup is - and I curse them for it!
Love your videos! I am absolutely grateful... Holy sh*t! get to the point already. Yeah, all the useful info is there, I just could have used a more concise vid. Perhaps I knew most of this already, and I was looking for the hidden sorcery. Patience Grasshopper. Maybe I shouldn't post... AAAAAAGH!
How can I build a Tele bridge pickup more focus on mid range, not too bright and not too much bass (kinda of even bass and high, but the mids frequencies higher than usual)????? Please, what would be that resistance and type of magnet.
holy shit bro ...quit tellin the folks what DOESNT represent pick up output , and inform them what DOES , and not the same '' it's a function of many factor's'' sidestep ...mag type , wire gauge, number of winding's yadda ....yadda ...It's a magnet , wire ,slugs , wrapped around 400 hundred yr old technology ( bobbin ) , you are tellin the kids we cannot assign a numerical value that might help consumers to decipher a low output device from a hotter one. ...here's a clue start with millivolts. its not that complicated.
Dude I've been researching pups and a pick up aficionado for the last 3- 4 years. I'm obsessed, have to change pick ups every 6 months. This is like pick up porn, great channel man.
Every 6 months,ur doin real good. LOL I only say that because i got bit by the same bug a few yrs ago. I loved it, it was great fun. And I got pretty good at changin em n a short period of time . And my wife got into it as well. After all that ,had duncan jazz set n lp,, lolars in strat, and demarzios in sg. Still there.
This is the best explanation of pickup output I've ever found
I am thankful someone understands this, and is covering this stuff. I am not a beginner player at all, but I want to know a lot more about this stuff, hopefully you cover it all as simple as possible, thanks.
One of the most useful videos I've seen on youtube ...ever. Thank you, Dylan.
An add on topic to this could (if you haven’t already) be the impact of how close you place your pick ups to the strings in conjunction with their output numbers.
For once, someone on UA-cam that’s not filling your head full of mud that knows his stuff on electric guitars.
His name is MUD!
@@michaelcraig9449 fact finders have determined this statement to be false as he is not dressed in blue, yes navy blue from head to toe.
Amen! He knows his stuff. I've got my grandson hooked! It's our Thang.
Just a question:
"Tone" is a product of voltage and current from pickup winding.
Does AlNiCo make different volts and milliamperes from ceramic (neodymium, whatever?)
According to theory all volts are the same. But amounts and z-curves are different.
The difference between two cases you described will mainly just be output voltage.
Different reamps react differently to different levels of input signal -your EQ pedal can give you all the proof you need.
Not Kemper though.
If you play a guitar and you really like that sound it can help you greatly in choosing which pickup to look for. I particularly like the sound of the alnico 5 humbucker at 12k for the bridge.
Glad I found you. You really explain all the nuances of electronic wizardry well. Your videos are very helpful. Blessings bro!!!
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@Gar Goil For some it may take 1 minute others 2 or 3 for others it may take watching the video 2 or 3 times. Some may never get it...but they may hear by experiencing the sounds for themselves. Which is better??? Only what matters to each as an individual is my guess.
😎👍🏽🎶🔥♥️🔥🎶
I bought a high output pickup because I thought that because my telecaster was really heavy it wouldn't resonate as much. I love the way it sounds but does my original premise make any sense?
Hey Pallie, can you SHOW us the difference in how it sounds? That would help also. Yeah I may seem pushy and a little in a hurry, but No one ever taught me a damn thing, until I asked about it a lot, and got super involved in the subject. Only way I got anywhere, jump in and go for it!
In a DC circuit, the ratio of voltage to current is called resistance. However, in an AC circuit this ratio is known as Impedance, Z with units again in Ohms. Impedance is the total resistance to current flow in an “AC circuit” containing both resistance and inductive reactance. This is what you are addressing, but inductive reactance is difficult to explain to people with a limited technical background.
wow thanks on the info i had a feeling that low output will be better for me in my kind of music but i do love active pick up
Yep. There are so many variables when it comes to pickup construction that make up it’s tone that you cannot just go by the resistance number. For instance, the SD Full Shred pickup reads slightly over 14k and it is FAR from muddy.
Hi Dylan, love all your tube! i am a sciences teacher and i play bass. during Covid i learn soldering, how to wires guitar from zero i need help that chinese guitar need a fix and this diagram look like nothing on the net working for weeks how to dio this... till i find you channel and now i can draw my own circuit and why i draw it that way for that reason... love you educational value. As a sciences teacher i give you A+ in matter of clarity and knowledge, not mean to share. I am looking to understand whar i want as new Jazz Bass Pickup and this just help me so much... decision will be long for sure...but at least i know what i am really loking for. Honnestly i felt in Love with Fralin Humm cancel Jazz Pick Up ... but i know at the end i will buy them from Dylan Pickup ... Cause i know at the end i will know what i ask for...and what i get and if i am not happy it will be cause i didnt ask for what i want.. You Rock at things
i got the biggest baddest pickup config and i still blast my room with wide cleans, seems articulate enough for me. i do not know what to believe from what you are saying when you talk about pickups, i've been a sub for a long time
Duncan Pearly gates neck pickup. Low magnetic, medium output, a sweet beautiful sustain and tone like I have not heard from any other.
I know Bill Lawrence measured his pickups in Henrys which seems to be more inclusive as to the magnet used and end result of its design output vs. resistance and how much wire is in there. It would be nice if specs like this were also included for us to ponder.
Best pickups i have are my 1989 duncan parallel axis and just got a mojotone 44 mag and love it to. Dont know why the parallel axis isnt more used mines 33yrs old and still massive
Thank you Dylan for sharing so much knowledge about pickups and the rest of guitar-whizzardry , wonderfull explained for us noobs! Helps a lot to get a bit behind the magic of gheetars👌😃
As for my personal preference in pickups I am happy with a overall ballaced low-to-mid output pickups. Preferably Alnico II for humbuckers and Alnico 5 on singlecoils. I like them to have stringdefinition in medium gain and to replicate the unplugged voicing of the guitar. The rest of tone I want to achieve by my playing, by changing pot- and cap-values, by fiddling with all possible knobs and rafining the points of contact of the strings with the body and neck.
Very clearly explained and useful I like how you grab the tone chase at the beginning- a guitar and the amp. I always found electrics that I loved acoustically, then hunted for pickups that brought THAT sound forward. More often than not, a too-hot or especially an active pickup would drown out what the guitar was truly capable of. This seems to work for me. Just the guitar and the amp, playing with how it goes from clean to dirty to pissed and back.
How do I explain to them when I want the neck pickup to sound like the fat lady at the opera? Think evolution neck pickup or the Gibson neck pickup slash uses? I don’t want to buy a dozen of them looking for that sound.
Hello Dylan...would you be able to make pickups with a combination stagger......specifically an ascending pole stagger from low E to D....and a flat pole stagger from G to high E....how much do you charge for a set shipped to Vancouver Canada? Thanks .....Ramon
Definitely one of my new favorite channels. 👍
I have a 59/JB in my Les Paul and a 490/498 in SG. I’m not an expert but I think these are pretty versatile.
Dylan, hey, just wanted to know.. what is the best combo of pots, caps, pickups etc.. to get the hugest, way hugest thickest Hendrix-Stevie Ray type tones ever, using a Stratocaster.? I also have great amps.. 1965 Bassman, and 1968 Fender Twin reverb. That is the tone I like the best. Got a few pedals, like the Ibanez TS9 turbo but they are probably not necessary with the right guitar set up and these amps. I would need plenty of highs and lows, plus obviously strong midrange too right? I cant stand harsh screechy screaming tone, no ear piercing nonsense, just a huge perfect singing tone.
I enjoy these Podcasts, and I'd love to try one of your pickups soon. Cheers!
I'm still a novice when it comes to guitar gear and I've got a friend who says low output pickups are better for metal because they don't distort on their own before getting to the amp. He says that means you can craft your distortion tone with more precision using pedals than you can with a high output pickup. Would you guys agree with that?
The answer is always: it depends. A high gain, compressed modern amp will likely have more cut and expressive sound with a more modest pickup. A crunchy rock amp can get just the right amount of push for the perfect saturation with a higher output pickup. Generally I have made the experience that a great PLAYER will sound better and more like himself when he/she uses something not overly hot to get their sound.
best info I have come across yet. No I no who I will be ordering my next pickups thru, and based on what I heard here they should be the last ones I need.
Really nice talk, Dylan! Thanks... Have you done something similar about pickup polarity and configuration and their influence on the sound one is aiming at?
For low to medium output I've had the best experience with Alnico mags. For higher output I think ceramic rules. I use high output ceramic pups for more metal-oriented stuff, and low to medium alnico, often Alnico for more traditional classic rock. I'm not a fan of Alnico 2 or 8. Alnico 4 and 5 work best for low to medium. I find that when you get into higher output that Alnico loses clarity and gets muffled, the harmonics stop shining. Just my experience.
Why do some tele schematics have the capacitor on the outside lug of the tone pot, but others have the capacitor on the middle lug. I couldn't tell by looking at your pre-wired harness where you put yours.
EBay has some telecaster wireing with all this push pull wah and capacitors dripping off the thing damn treble bleed and mind boggling, they do have some high end EVH and other pots for sale there, worth a look, I bought 2 250s and they are night and day to what I have, with big names creating them, emg etc
I once swapped magnets on cheap single coils, and it drastically altered the sound of both for the better (in my opinion). I think I'm starting to understand why that would be. I'm guessing one was ceramic, and the other was alnico.
Love your channel. Top quality information I totally trust. Well done 👍
Dylan great info thank you so much always a pleasure listening to you
How you make a scooped pick up? Like a Big Dipper?
Thanks for the video! This is the type of explanation that starts me in the right direction when looking for my tone (pick up) preference.
I need help, I thought the first frequencies to be attenuated were high frequencies that is why tinny high bitch single coils use low resistance pots in order to tame the high frequencies. How do low resistance pickups have harsh highs, I would imagine they are more low and mid focused and if anything would sound woofy and muddy.
Personally my ideal pickup set would be scooped mid in the bridge, to help blend with the bass n drums and boosted mids in the neck for smooth soloing and to stand out from the rest of the band... With some moderate output. I use a JCM800 so for me the toggle switch becomes my channel selector.
Thanks Dylan. My question; I have a tone control on my guitar, one on my reverb pedal, one on my delay pedal, one on the tremolo pedal, three on my American sound pre-amp and three on the PA amp. What is the best way to balance all this tone?
That's a great question. I can handle that tonight!
Use your own instincts what sounds good to you
Some top advice here Dylan, thanks dude.
this was extremely informative dylan. thank u
Enjoyed this video great job.
hey Dylan I know this is an old day I don't know if you go over the comments or not but I appreciate the video the matter when it was made. Of the hottest pick up Scion in my guitar which came stock was my twenties is my 2017 firebird it came with the mini humbuckers ceramic and they are really really hot or really reallyare there really really high resistance pickups and surprisingly enough when you play with it and you told the volume back on the guitar or maybe the tone a little bit they clean up surprisingly well really well and they certainly do give you an aggressive sound when you have everything wide open. And I just pulled the trigger on Tuesday for a gretsch g5422t with theand I just pulled the trigger on Tuesday on the gretsch g5422t hollow-body with the blacktop filtertron and that I assume is going to be my lowest output pick up in a guitar I own I also want another guitars of course and guitars and which I have at the moment and then I'm getting each guitar is something I would pick up for a specific need or specific sounds that I'm looking for a lot of professional musician I'm not a recording musician but I still you know I assume I'll pick up the racks for rent one reason yesterday for another my Ibanez for another I guess you got it you know nothing is a duplicate of the other in my little world of anyway thanks again for your pickupanyway thanks again for this video I also watch all your current one so listen to them consultants considering that I'm severely legally blind which leads to this little statement please excuse typos misspelled words lack of punctuation etc I suffer from mr. Magoo syndrome I'm not illiterate or the lots of my friends like to say that I am anyway I suffer again I'm severely blind severely legally blind using Speech-to-Text sincerely yours, Bob the blind measuring guitarist
It would be good to actually give some thought into why some people use higher output pickups vs lower with more clarity. Is it because they use pedals? Is it because they want to drive the amp? Is it they type of amp/pickup combo? Maybe string size is affecting what's output? Like Tony Iommi uses a super low gauge string size with massive output pickups. I don't think a lot of these question have ever been answered
I have a question for you if you can tell me. What is the reason of the pickup wires behind you in this video being twisted? I'm kind of new to wiring of guitars and still learning even though I have only been a player for 34 years. So yes there are many things I do know over the years, but there are people who just never get into tinkering with stuff and would rather just play. Well over the years that has changed for me and I am wanting to learn more.
What kind of “output” gives a jangly to grinding kind of sound, like some of the gold foils? Also, if all other parts are equal, what is the difference in sound in say a 10k 43gauge vs. 10k of 42gauge?
So, i have a schecter ultra 3 with filtertrons, low out put. Its like 4k in the bridge, i raise the bridge p.u. and it sounds amazing, but i need a little more. I was thinking of getting a vintage alnico 5 in there....However I'm afraid im not going to get that huge thick sound, i might get tv Jones filtertron pickups that push around 9k 10k. Anywho, i have one of the worn epiphone classics, alnico classic pro pickups... that pushes around 8.4, when i ever i turn up my rat distortion past 12 and play/strum aggressively..it sounds like the speakers are kind of fading in n out, or losing volume with each strum attack. I play through an ampeg micro vr bass amp into a 320 watt crate cab, seventy 80 speakers.. Not the best cab but a better built crate than other crates.. its gwar approved....Tone sounds great it just fades in n out intermittently. I have bass eq, mid and treble dimed out...is it the pickups that cant handle the aggressive down picking or the amp? It happens with the les paul, schecter sounds great, ive tried adjusting the eq but it still happens.
Sorry, i know its a lot to digest...I just ripped a fatty blunt
I’m learning so much ❤
what do you feel about piezo pick ups?
yeah allot say bad about, seymour duncan invader, emg’s seymour duncan blackouts. a good high gain amp with duncan invaders is killer for metal, highs are not harsh but perfect for heavy stuff.
More winds means more capacitance which in theory retains most of the energy. It can’t make the magnetic field any stronger, example, high winding resistance will not increase the magnetic field in a low Gauss magnet.
This is the exact video I needed. Thanks so much.
thanks so much for watching!
@@DylanTalksTone subbed a while ago but thanks for these videos it is much appreciated
I love this guy
WHICH IS THE HIGHEST OUTPUT PICKUP (HUMBUCKER ) EVER USED ?
I’m having a chambered body guitar made. I play lead, and like to shred some bluesy doom metal. Would the high out put pickups work with a chambered body?
Hi dylan i have a question how can i know the low output pickups on a multi tester thanks
Any suggestion for a mid scooped low output single like JM big dippers?
Im curious to know, is there a pickup that can produces a mid to low frequency range with little to no high range cut ?
I have a Dimarzio Super 3 and it's god like. Maybe I got lucky and got a good one, it crushes
After long time with exeperiments of pickups and wires, for me best sounding pickup is lower output pickups. I use steel screws and neo magnets, awg 42 , humbucker series 10kohm. Sound so good, low the bass mids and treble from pickups perfect in balance for me. I crank gain on amp little more and thats it..
When i use frends jazz bass from 70' s and p bass they have alnico 2 i think pickups, and have low output too.. but sound was amazing..
In this modern days everything needs to be hot, pumped, like steroids or plastic girls. If it doesnt its not good.. same with guitar and pickups.. ✌🏻🌻
Hey Dylan, do you know anything about those mp90 pickups in the fender player series "Mustang" 90 ? (I keep reading that they're "hot" and now i think that might mean they're wound more times with a cheap magnet like you say?)
As usual great video I also like that you don’t like to rip off people I’m gonna start shopping at your website
Do u have a video explaining resonant peak????
Dylan, the simple option is tha I want to get a high sustain and warm tone. Whats it take when you running out of a high gain amp and pedals double stack gain distortion or other wise gain advantage setups
I'd say sustain is more relied on build quality of the guitar, its mass and the amp you're using. Output doesn't make that huge a difference at high gain settings.
High output pickups are not necessary brighter sounding but a loud dark tone in clean amp setting
Are your podcasts downloadable?
it surprises me that your channel has been putting out good content for this many years, but i didn't discover it until a month or so ago. how is it you don't have 10 times the subscribers? i don't get it.
Hey Dylan thanks for your videos please excuse any typos I am legally blind I have a few questions for you I'm hoping you'll be able to answer them it's on ceramic pickups number one is a ceramic magnet and Pickups necessarily always bad Dee always cheap number two do you make any pickups with ceramic magnets and if not why and I guess the third one is I own a 2017 Firebird 5 or Firebird T it's got the mini humbuckers in it when I spoke with Gibson customer service hours a day cooking about those pickups they seem to be compared to what I've heard many others are supposed to be so they told me overwhelmed coils they told me though that sonically this should be pretty close to the original mini's I seen your video on the Epiphone Lucille with the ceramic pickups and the way they sounded and reactive or not at all the way my pickups react Gibson mini humbucker thank you for your time my pickups are pretty Dynamic when everything is on 10 and I have the Distortion or overdrive cooking it's pretty hot pretty loud pretty aggressive but as I roll down the volume it cleans up and if I roll it down quite a bit it cleans up to almost it's like crystal clear and then as I Roll Up the Volume switch back to extend the Distortion comes back and that's not at all what I saw on your Epiphone Lucille video as far as clarity and the difference between rolling back pots my pickups don't seem to act like that at all please information you can give me on this type of pickups and or specifically on the Gibson 495 mini humbuckers I greatly appreciate it in the paragraphs or typos because I am legally blind I use speech to text and a lot of times it doesn't work that well thank you again doing I appreciate all your videos and all the knowledge that you share and I do hope to get a reply
When I play my Les Paul with burstbuckers or my SG which have Lindy fralin pure paf neither of them are particularly high output and the range is somewhere between 8 and 8.5 at the Bridge and around 7- 7.5 at the neck. Both have tremendous clarity, and I play either guitar on a clean amp like a Fender Princeton, or a mid gain amp like a old Marshall or Bassman or a modern high gain amp, I can get any tone for anything I would play. When I play the various amps I own, I can get the gain I want to see you then without pedals to Crazy levels that are too high for my taste and from my perspective I believe I can play in a metal band oh, but I'm sure there are plenty of real metal players that would probably consider the pickups to be inconsistent with the gain on the amp and maybe they'd want something hotter or an active pickup. I can certainly get everything from super clean Funk and soul and even jazz, I can get dirty Blues or hard blues rock like Zeppelin and I can get into shred territory like something you'd hear from early Van Halen, Richie Kotzen Joe Satriani and 80s metal like Warren demartini or George Lynch. I don't have any desire to sound like Dimebag Darrell and that's about as heavy as any music I listen to. what are you guys into?
I've been all over the internet looking for what can cause my problem. I've got a telecaster pickup ,2 leads (hot and ground ) plus small wire grounded to back plate of pickup. My pickup is almost dead on b string and very low on g string. My question is, could poor soldering cause this problem.
Crap magnets.
i wound a single pole pickup that measured 0.23K ... and it has a really strong Earth Magnet..... it has lower output on clean....but with Overdrive, it Wails! ..... do you see this as a good or bad thing>? ... 0.23K seems really Low...but i think itll sound good.....maybe
Another oldie, I know, but…
How can one A/B pickups without having to buy a load of them and swap them in and out - I mean, that’s the ideal, yeah?
It’s REALLY difficult to even find a starting point - Like I *believe* I want an Alnico II Humbucker of around 5-7k resistance. I’ve no idea of what it actually will sound like - those two ‘data points’ are all the guitarist has to go on, especially if they’ve no experience of different pickups.
Sound samples aren’t much good, as compression, cruddy PC speakers, etc all distort the original sound being heard as the guitar was recorded.
And then, as you point out, there are all the minutiae of the pickup - winds and wire/insulation sizes, overall inductance at, say, middle C. Very rarely do you see these kinds of details published by manufacturers. And what do they even mean in specific tone? What are these for Peter Green’s pickups? And so on.
I think DiMarzio kicked off the whole fixation on how many ‘k’ a pickup is - and I curse them for it!
Love your videos! I am absolutely grateful...
Holy sh*t! get to the point already.
Yeah, all the useful info is there, I just could have used a more concise vid.
Perhaps I knew most of this already, and I was looking for the hidden sorcery.
Patience Grasshopper.
Maybe I shouldn't post...
AAAAAAGH!
Super cool explanation
Awesome shirt.
More output = more metal. Win win situation!
I think the blacktop bucker is around 18k. From what I read. Seems a lot
What the best pickup for mid-range crunch and not so many highs
From the mind of a manic this pickup is designed exactly for that dylantalkstone.com/collections/dylanpickups/products/centerpunch-humbucker
Anyone got a lead on a new ear? Mine don't work so good anymore.
Never been a fan of over wound pickups, what I need is a bag of tone air for the room
WOW ! THIS IS GETTING DEEP.
what is considered a high output pickup?? 10k n up?
10k as in 10 kOhms is not a measurement of output.
How can I build a Tele bridge pickup more focus on mid range, not too bright and not too much bass (kinda of even bass and high, but the mids frequencies higher than usual)?????
Please, what would be that resistance and type of magnet.
Awesome
Really valuable information here. Thanks man!
larger gauge wire has lower resistance, and less of it will create more output than a smaller gauge wire with more turns and much higher resistance.
that is incorrect
@@DylanTalksTone look at a charlie christian pickup. at 4kohms it has a higher output, because the resistance of the wire is much lower.
Hey Dylan it's blind robbed again I forgot to ask you one of the questions that I originally wanted to ask your ex do you make mini humbuckers
I'm more confused than when I started.
FredTalksTone
holy shit bro ...quit tellin the folks what DOESNT represent pick up output , and inform them what DOES , and not the same '' it's a function of many factor's'' sidestep ...mag type , wire gauge,
number of winding's yadda ....yadda ...It's a magnet , wire ,slugs , wrapped around 400 hundred yr old technology ( bobbin ) , you are tellin the kids we cannot assign a numerical value that
might help consumers to decipher a low output device from a hotter one. ...here's a clue start with millivolts. its not that complicated.
That is not what was asked. Fail. Your inability to listen and learn is not anyone else's problem.