- First, let's define some terms. "Machine Winding" - a machine spins the bobbin and moves back and forth at a regular pace, distributing the wire evenly across the bobbin. "Hand Winding" - a machine spins the bobbin, but the...
- A coil tap refers to a lead connected to an individual coil's winding and is used to raise and lower a pickup's output and change its tone. This is most often utilized on single coil pickups where the player...
- Coil splitting refers to the ability to disable one coil in a humbucker-type pickup. This offers the player option of getting a single coil-type tone from a humbucker-loaded guitar. Many pickups have three- or four-conductor wiring that allows for...
- The Jimmy Page wiring is a fairly complicated switching system made famous by Jimmy Page and was later used in Gibson's line of Jimmy Page Les Pauls. It uses four DPDT switches and incorporates coil taps for both pick...
- A good starting point for the distance from the bridge pickup to the strings is 3/32 of an inch. The neck pickup can be set to provide a good output balance when compared to the bridge or to produce...
- The difference between the two preamps is the value of some of the components. If you use the wrong one, you may experience limited range in the treble control. Also, when you blend two pickups to together, you might...
- At the end of the production process, all STK-S4 pickups are fine tuned for hum-canceling. Each pickup is essentially 'injected' with hum, and measured for the amount hum it cancels. To achieve the maximum amount of hum-canceling, a small...
- The two most common reasons are to make different manufacturers' pickups phase compatible and also it is necessary in order to get PRS 5 way switching to work properly....