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Pickups of different specs are absolutely different from each other. When thinking about their sound quality, I would encourage you to not think about pickups in terms of "good" or "bad". Sound is an entirely subjective thing. Calling two dissimilar pickups "equally good" doesn't really tell you...

You may have mistaken some charts, the HFS and Vintage Bass pickups aren't on any of those charts. The Vintage Bass would be fairly close to the 58/15 "S", but the HFS is very different. At 15K DCR (estimating they're using 43 gauge wire), I'd expect that to have a resonant frequency between...

That's the goal of my website and instagram channel - use these charts to make it easier to visualize objectively how one pickup sounds vs. another. I have a ton of comparisons on the instagram account, and slowly moving more to the website. But the website has all the public data available so...

I'd love to have that clarified. My understanding (at least with the Paul's Guitar) is that the controls split the humbucker and then add the capacitor to the signal in order to "fatten" the sound to make it more pleasing. From the image in my article, that's how it appears to be wired. I would...

If you read my article about TCI, you can see all the information that was available prior to this recent video: https://guitarpickupdatabase.com/prs-tci-pickups-explained/ In short, TCI was used for multiple things, but it has always meant "tuned capacitance and inductance." That is...

It's actually simpler than that. Just take the name literally - "Tuned Capacitance and Inductance". The capacitance and inductance are the main variables that determine the curve. They're just focusing on keeping those tightly controlled. It's not a different build process at all though. They're...

I think you might be misunderstanding the technology. It's not specifically to make a pickup sound like anything - it's to visualize the sound in a more accurate way. It's like the difference between a Plek-machine setup vs. setting up your action by feel. More specifically, they're visualizing...

Wouldn't that be cool if true! I doubt it. I did actually speak with Paul on the phone for about 45 min earlier this year after sending them several plots. So he specifically has seen what I've done.

I'm so happy PRS released this information to the public in their latest video: I wrote an article earlier this year explaining what I believed was PRS's TCI process (link: https://guitarpickupdatabase.com/prs-tci-pickups-explained/). Every time I heard Paul describe how pickups have a...

I've posted a more in-depth review on my website if anyone would like further details and images: https://guitarpickupdatabase.com/prs-silver-sky-635jm-vs-635jm-s/

There’s been a few different ProBuckers so it may not be the exact one you have, but I agree I liked it. The ProBucker 3 is in the Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s, LP Custom, and SG Standard. All of those have a ProBucker 2 in the neck. The LP Standard 50s has a ProBucker 2 in the bridge and a...

Hi All! while I was doing some tests with the PRS 58/15 "S" bridge pickup, I recalled that the specs were very similar to what I had recorded for the Epiphone ProBucker 3. I rechecked and confirmed that all the specs were basically identical, and the resonance curves overlapped each other. Both...

I appreciate that! Any feedback you have would be helpful for me to make it better. It’s still early but I’m continually adding comparisons on my Instagram and I’ll be writing more articles and reviews on the website. And I’m also working on making the quiz better, but I like how it works so...

I fully agree, I wish the pickup manufacturers would provide this data. It seems that most have access to it and use it, there's just not standard for how to do the graphs. If everyone came together to decide on a standard they could do it, but that's more or less what I'm trying to do.

Funny you should mention, I actually have a website at guitarpickupdatabase.com. I’m going to add this type of data too, but currently I have all the public specs for every major pickup model in an easily filterable table, so you can compare specs really easily. I’d appreciate if you’d check it...

Thanks! I performed the tests myself, using my personal Silver Sky’s pickup and a 635JM “S” I purchased off of reverb. I send a signal sweep through a drive coil that’s connected to an oscilloscope. That plots out the voltage that the pickup produces from 100Hz to 10kHz. That voltage is...

Thank you, I appreciate the positive feedback. I'm still trying to figure out how to present this data, I'm trying to do more of this on my instagram (@guitarpickupdatabase). Yeah I'm very interested to hear it as well. I have a bunch of other single coils so I'll be able to compare both of to...

It felt incredibly wrong cutting my own USA Silver Sky’s pickup out to do this, but hopefully it will provide some value to everyone! I posted these images to my instagram account, which is why they have the "swipe" icon. Hopefully the images come up - if not, here's a data table with the...

I don’t think so. It’s honestly even strange to call it a process. The simpler way to think about it is that instead of targeting a turn count, they’re targeting a capacitance and inductance number. They’re still just making a normal pickup, they’re just focusing on a different metric. Turn...

I don't doubt that they implement extended quality control when selecting pots, but I don't think that's part of what's considered TCI. If you have information to support that I'd love to see it, but I suspect they were doing that prior to 2019. When they talk about tuning the whole circuit, my...