![[-]](https://theultimatetone.com/images/collapse.png "[-]")
02-08-2019, 05:29 PM
Hi jmcd
Guitar pickups have the usual parasitic elements of inductance and capacitance and these vary with the design and the manufacturing consistency. The latter can manifest itself with how the wire is wrapped - is it neat, tight layers, or does the bulk of turns simply fill the space? neat winding leads to both pickups sounding the same and sounding the same from one guitar to the next. Loose windings may be "vintage" in a way, although I doubt any manufactured pickup was made that way, and definitely gives uniqueness to each pickup and thus to each guitar.
In any case, it seems like a damping resistor would be the simplest fix to employ; just place this across the output of the offending pickup ahead of the volume and tone controls. You could get fancy and use a cap in series with a resistor, but that would be difficult to tune without using a scope. As soon as I write that, I realise doing it by ear is about the same as adding the R and tweaking that by ear.
Guitar pickups have the usual parasitic elements of inductance and capacitance and these vary with the design and the manufacturing consistency. The latter can manifest itself with how the wire is wrapped - is it neat, tight layers, or does the bulk of turns simply fill the space? neat winding leads to both pickups sounding the same and sounding the same from one guitar to the next. Loose windings may be "vintage" in a way, although I doubt any manufactured pickup was made that way, and definitely gives uniqueness to each pickup and thus to each guitar.
In any case, it seems like a damping resistor would be the simplest fix to employ; just place this across the output of the offending pickup ahead of the volume and tone controls. You could get fancy and use a cap in series with a resistor, but that would be difficult to tune without using a scope. As soon as I write that, I realise doing it by ear is about the same as adding the R and tweaking that by ear.
