Anyone tried an Alnico Pro II/Alt-8 hybrid yet?

[madryan]

Just curious as I've got these two hanging around and I don't dig the AP-II in my Strat (It's a trembucker) and I just got the Alt-8.

[frankfalbo]

IMO those two coils would be best together if they had an Alnico 5 magnet. A2 is too soft to appropriately charge the Alt 8 coil, which is very big and fat, and A8 is very powerful for a coil that lives in the 3.5-4k range. They are highly mismatched, I'll bet with an Alnico V you'd get a pickup with good top and bottom and an open midrange.

[hamerfan]

What Frank said. Maybe a A8 is worth a shot, too.

[Kam]

Yeah, Frank answered it.

With the mismatch in the coils I wouldn't expect it to cancel a lot of noise. It might still sound pretty good, though.

[King IzzO)))]

"They are highly mismatched, I'll bet with an Alnico V you'd get a pickup with good top and bottom and NO midrange"

Fixed that for you, haha.

I think an A2 might be fine, depends on what you're trying to achieve. A2 sounds good in a JB to me, must sound good to George Lynch and Dimartini too.

[dr. ad]

^ when you have 2 different coils together you get a lot more midrange, as well as high-end, as there are less frequencies being cancelled out all over.

to the OP - don't perform surgery on 2 perfectly good pickups without trying the stock alt8 in your strat first. i think the alt8 would kick serious arse in a strat.

[Frogman]

"They are highly mismatched, I'll bet with an A2 sounds good in a JB to me, must sound good to George Lynch and Dimartini too.

Jake E Lee, too!