CantankerousCarl
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Anyone know where to find a current (or relatively so) list of PRS pickups / specs. Resistance, magnet type, etc...?
Anyone know where to find a current (or relatively so) list of PRS pickups / specs. Resistance, magnet type, etc...?
It's amazing to me that more people don't do this. I had a HFS in my baritone and it was very, VERY nu-metal toned with the drop tuning, so I swapped in a roughcast UOA5 magnet (two of them cost me $5) and it made it much more rock oriented - unfortunately not enough for my tastes, but much more in that direction. It would work well in a standard tuned guitar - the baritone always wants to be a metal monster with basically any pickup wound with 43 gauge wire.I've been wondering this my self, a lot of people don't like the harshness of the HFS, they can get a magnet off of Ebay for $6 or $7 and just swap that out and see if they like it more...
So Dragon I is hotter than Tremonti and hottest of all?
No, it just uses a thinner wire compared to the others, which drives up the resistance. DC Resistance is not a very good indicator of a pickup's output or tone. It's only useful if you're comparing two pickups with the same coil size (which we can assume here, since they're all standard sized HB's) using the same gauge wire. That first chart is helpful because you can compare, for example, all the pickups that use 42ga wire. The ones with more turns will have higher output and resistance compared to those with less turns. More turns also means a lower resonant peak, which means less focus on the highs, and more on the mids. Comparing the Dragon to most of the pickups in that list is apples and oranges, though.
Inductance is probably the most reliable indicator of output. It's likely the inductance of the Tremonti and HFS will be higher than that of the Dragon.