High quality low imp pickup source.

[sumsound]

Was wondering if anyone here knows of a low imp humbucking pickup maker. How makes pickups that fit in already existing standard humbucking and singlecoil/stacked humbucker cutouts. None of the comercial ones I've been looking at seem to have the charateristics I'm looking for.

I'm looking for pickups with a frequency response that is much higher than normal say beyond 10kHz so I can use it with my resonant low pass circuit on an electric guitar. I play speedmetal to jazz, funk, blues. So I want to have a guitar with very versitile Tonal Shaping and have enough output to really overdrive a tube amp front end if I need it too.

I have a gibson SG-Z with a stacked humbucker in the neck (Which is very nice mellow and kinda strat like, and a 500T Hot humbucker at the bridge. Its way unballanced as far as output with the neck pickup, and its resonant peak is in kinda a raspy spot. Its great for metal but not too much else.

 

[Bear]

http://www.billlawrence.com/
Low impedence is one of his big things.

His L-500 series are actually more sized for P-90/minibucker routs, but you can get a pickup ring that closes up the gap. Other flavors, too, including noiseless single coil styles of various output levels.

(I'm intrigued with his Q-filter circuit, which apparently parallels an inductor to lower the inductance of pickups and change the tonality.)

Bear

 

[sumsound]

Yah I've seen his site. He doesn't really give any info on the pickups, impedance or characteristic resonance/roll off point. He sounds like he has good philosophy and technical knowledge of what he does though.

 

[OldHouseScott]

Go to the Wilde Gate link on Bill's site. That's his user forum. There are descriptions of all his current products in the sticky's. His p'ups are actually designated within each model by their inductance. I don't think you'll find a reference to resistance or impedance anywhere.