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2011 Am. Std. Precision pickups. What exactly do I have?

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Lol how did I not notice that?

But more on topic, I think we can safely say the magnets are A5 and that they are machine wound in a straightforward manner (no scatter winding). And we're on a very well known pickup bobbin wound to a almost vintage resistance with vintage spec magnets. Its interesting that they sound the way that they do.

And I say wire gauge because I've heard that the SPB-1 and 2have the same amount of turns but the 2 uses a smaller wires gauge. It is also reputed to be pretty middy. One can also assume that going to a larger wire gauge would have the opposite effect, losing mids and increasing the high end.
 
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"Q" said:
Lol how did I not notice that?

But more on topic, I think we can safely say the magnets are A5 and that they are machine wound in a straightforward manner (no scatter winding). And we're on a very well known pickup bobbin wound to a almost vintage resistance with vintage spec magnets. Its interesting that they sound the way that they do.

And I say wire gauge because I've heard that the SPB-1 and 2have the same amount of turns but the 2 uses a smaller wires gauge. It is also reputed to be pretty middy. One can also assume that going to a larger wire gauge would have the opposite effect, losing mids and increasing the high end.
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I wish I knew more about 'pickup voodoo', but I don't. While I have made my living for 40 years in electronics (20 of them in a music store) I have no interest in the innards of pickups. I used the Gezzers last night. Yeah, they sound very good to my ears, but like you, I don't know how something so basic and simple can have so many incarnations. Sometimes I think we hear what we want to hear, or what we're told we're going to hear from someone's testimonial. That being said, I think I got my $99 worth. LOL
 
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bumperbass said:
I wish I knew more about 'pickup voodoo', but I don't. While I have made my living for 40 years in electronics (20 of them in a music store) I have no interest in the innards of pickups. I used the Gezzers last night. Yeah, they sound very good to my ears, but like you, I don't know how something so basic and simple can have so many incarnations. Sometimes I think we hear what we want to hear, or what we're told we're going to hear from someone's testimonial. That being said, I think I got my $99 worth. LOL
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I used to feel the same way. Used to argue about it, too. Then I bought a bass that I didn't like the sound but I wanted to keep (cheap Steinberger copy made by a company called Bradley), and I made it sound pretty darn good with a pickup change. This happened with 3 different basses since then, and each time it was like getting a whole new bass. Had a couple unsuccessful tries as well but the pickups made the bass sound and respond differently each time. And on the unsuccessful attempts, I figured I could EQ around the pickups, but there would be problems with the sound in other frequency ranges that would crop up when I'd try to fix things. So I became a believer in pickups. And for me, the proof was installing Geezer P's in my modded-to-hell 76 Precision PJ and my 09 AmStd Precision. These two basses are as far from identical as it gets...ash/rosewood vs alder/maple, different bridges and tuners, the PJ has separate vol/tone and no finish on the body...and on a recording, they sound identical if I turn down the J on the PJ.
 

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