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What's inside Alembic pickups

MPU

Sep 21, 2004
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I'm trying to find out detailed data about Alembic pickups, AXY and Fatboy in particular. So far I've found out that they have ceramic magnets, AXY has 6mm wide and Fatboy 12 mm wide aperture which equals magnet or at least magnetic sensing width. They are stacked humbuckers and second coil has nonmagnetic core.
I'd like to know the resistance of the pickups, size of the coils and size of the magnets. I know that it's unlikely that someone has opened an Alembic pickup. If anyone has a broken AXY, MXY or Fatboy pickup I'd be more than happy to buy it.
 
For one, it's not a humbucker, else it wouldn't be quite as bright and clear sounding.
The wide aperture on the Fatboys (the magnet in AXY and MXY is the same size, in a Fatboy the magnet is larger) definitely tones down the brightness and adds a bit of oomph in the bass to lower mids.
Not sure if the humcamceller coil is wound around a solid center or on a bobbin, but that wouldn't really make a difference. Also, the pickup is low impedance for a wide range and fairly flat response, which means it pairs up well with an LPF.
No data on the number of winds, though I've heard some of the earliest Series single coils had have less than 1,000 winds.