Bridge P/u Idea

[avengers63]

In January, I'll be rebuilding a single p/u practice guitar. It has one p/u: a bridge HB. My thought is to get a pair of bridge hot-rail type SC sized HBs and put them both in the space for the normal HB. This'd have 2 HBs blasting out through the bridge position. Now, this axe would only be good for one thing, but DANG! I'd have between 27-30k in output, blowing away an X2N or Dimebucker.

Any thoughts on how not to screw this up?

[ihocky2]

I am not an electronics or pickup expert, but what on earth would you need that much output for. That is going to get muddy so quick it isn't funny. High output pickups were made to drive older low gain amps easier. With todays high gain amps, there is less of a need for those real high output pickups. Plus you'll notice, the X2N and the Dimebucker, do not get that great of reviews.

[WezV]

Like this:

http://www.mansons.co.uk/product_info.cfm?...uctID=KAMotherb

I have used them and think they sound fairly bad!!

[JoeAArthur]

DC resistance in and of itself means absolutely nothing and cannot be compared in a direct relationship to any other pickup.

It don't mean output, it don't mean tone.

All it is... is a relationship between the number of turns in the coil AND the gauge of the wire AND it's resistance per foot.

[David Schwab]

I'd have between 27-30k in output, blowing away an X2N or Dimebucker.

Well DC resistance doesn't equal output, and unless you had them both in series, the output DC resistance would be halved.

2 X 15K = 7.5K in parallel.

In series you would have a pretty muddy tone.