tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24310328253630584842024-03-14T20:33:14.160+13:00Mr Glyn's Pickups Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-35872478774171039922024-01-03T07:07:00.002+13:002024-01-03T07:07:21.579+13:00Pickup String Spacing – choosing a humbucker<p> </p><h1 class="entry-title"><br /></h1>
<p>Pickup string spacing is something you need to be aware of when
you’re buying guitar pickups, particularly humbuckers. Guitar bridges
come with different string widths so pickups need to match that. In this
blog post I’m going to explain what It’s all about and how to measure
it.</p>
<div class="wp-block-rank-math-toc-block" id="rank-math-toc"><h2>Table of Contents</h2><nav><div><div><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2023/11/15/pickup-string-spacing/#what-is-a-pole-piece">What is a Pole Piece?</a></div><div><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2023/11/15/pickup-string-spacing/#what-you-dont-need-to-know">What you don’t need to know</a></div><div><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2023/11/15/pickup-string-spacing/#pickup-string-spacing-what-you-need-to-know">Pickup String spacing – what you need to know</a></div><div><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2023/11/15/pickup-string-spacing/#how-to-measure-string-spacing">How to measure string spacing</a></div><div><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2023/11/15/pickup-string-spacing/#what-is-f-spacing">What is F spacing?</a></div></div></nav></div>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="what-is-a-pole-piece">What is a Pole Piece?</h3>
<p>Pickups have pole pieces, think of these as magnets mounted in the
pickup listening for string movement. Sometimes they are actual magnets,
sometimes pieces of steel directing magnetism towards the strings. In
this case they are steel screws.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img alt="Humbucker pole pieces, Mr Glyns Pickups" class="wp-image-12552" data-attachment-id="12552" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="<p>Humbucker pole pieces </p>" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1636818196","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Humbucker Poles" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_8825-1-scaled.jpg?fit=980%2C672&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_8825-1-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C206&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_8825-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2048%2C1403&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2048,1403" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_8825-1/" height="255" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_8825-1.jpg?resize=980%2C672&ssl=1" style="height: auto; width: 372px;" width="372" /></figure></div></div>
<p>This is what we mean by ‘pole spacing’ its the distance between the outer most poles, centre to centre. </p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a aria-label="" class="custom-link no-lightbox" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2023/11/15/pickup-string-spacing/" rel="" target="_self" title="pole spacing."><img alt="Pickup String Spacing" class="wp-image-12580" data-attachment-id="12580" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Pickup String Spacing</p>" data-image-description="<p>Measuring pickup pole spacing.</p>" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="pole spacing." data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4775-1-scaled.jpg?fit=980%2C657&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4775-1-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C201&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4775-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2048%2C1373&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2048,1373" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_4775-1/" height="251" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4775-1.jpg?resize=980%2C657&ssl=1" style="height: auto; width: 374px;" width="374" /></a></figure></div></div>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="what-you-dont-need-to-know">What you don’t need to know</h3>
<p>The way a pickup works is the string sitting inside the magnetic
field actually becomes a temporary magnet and when it vibrates it
disturbs this magnetic field and creates an electrical signal in the
coil of wire around the magnet. </p>
<p>It’s a tiny signal but enough to get through your guitar’s on board
circuit and down a cable to an amplifier. It’s hard to imagine that such
a small amount of electricity can produce such a lot of sound. Have a
think about it next time you’re at a big gig. What you’re hearing is
just that small amount of electricity generated in a coil of wire. It’s
really cool stuff and I find it fascinating. But you don’t really need
to know all that. </p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="pickup-string-spacing-what-you-need-to-know">Pickup String spacing – what you need to know</h3>
<p>What you do need to know is that the string needs to align with the
magnet to get the best signal. Magnets are, however, not lasers, they
generate a magnetic field and not a precise beam. If the string isn’t in
perfect alignment it’s fine. If the slightest misalignment made a
difference then string bending would cause a drop in volume. Have a
look next time you bend a string how far the string moves away from the
pole.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized"><img alt="Guitar string alignment to a humbucker" class="wp-image-12577" data-attachment-id="12577" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="<p>Guitar string alignment to a humbucker</p>" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="string align" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4774-1-scaled.jpg?fit=867%2C1024&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4774-1-scaled.jpg?fit=254%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4774-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1735%2C2048&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1735,2048" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_4774-1/" height="442" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4774-1-scaled.jpg?resize=980%2C1157&ssl=1" style="height: auto; width: 374px;" width="374" /></figure></div></div>
<p>As you can see, a little bit out of line makes no difference. Eddie
Van Halen used a vintage PAF on Van Halen I with a Fender type bridge –
the PAF ‘s were 49.2mm (1 15/16″) spacing and Fender bridges are usually
52mm. If there had been a problem he would have noticed.</p>
<p> Please remember that if a humbucker has 49.2mm spacing or 52mm
spacing it’s outer dimensions are the same. The overall size of the
pickup doesn’t change. So if you take out a 49.2mm humbucker and replace
it with a 52mm it will still fit, it’s just the pole alignment to the
strings that will be different.</p>
<p>Guitar bridges come in various sizes giving different string spacing.
So if you have a Gibson ABR Tune-o-matic your string spacing will be
narrower than a Fender Strat bridge, for instance. </p>
<p>By the time the strings get to the neck pickup the spacings are just
about the same so neck pickups don’t vary in width. We’re just talking
about bridge pickups here.</p>
<p>So we really want the strings to line up as best as possible with the pickup’s poles but we’re not getting too hung up on it.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-to-measure-string-spacing">How to measure string spacing</h3>
<p>The measurement is the distance from the first to the sixth strings
centre to centre at the bridge pickup. This diagram should help:</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img alt="Measurment strat bridge" class="wp-image-12578" data-attachment-id="12578" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="<p>Measuring the string spacing of a Stratocaster</p>" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Strat bridge" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4773-1-scaled.jpg?fit=980%2C719&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4773-1-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C220&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4773-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2048%2C1501&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2048,1501" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_4773-1/" height="274" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_4773-1.jpg?resize=980%2C719&ssl=1" style="height: auto; width: 374px;" width="374" /></figure></div></div>
<p>You can simply do this with a ruler, like I have.</p>
<p>As you can see this ’89 Strat bridge has 52mm string spacing. If you
wanted to choose a bridge humbucker to make it a HSS Strat than choose
the 52mm option.</p>
<p> If you’re buying a Mr Glyns Pickup and have any doubt just send me a pic of your bridge and I should be able to advise you.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="what-is-f-spacing">What is F spacing?</h3>
<p>F spacing simply means a wider spaced bridge humbucker – 52, 52.5 or
53mm. The F stands for either ‘Fender’ or ‘Floyd Rose’. It isn’t clear
which and doesn’t really matter.</p>
<p>Why 49.2mm not just 49mm? You may well ask! It’s the metric
equivalent of the pole spacing for a Gibson PAF which is the pickup most
humbuckers are based on. The original measurement in imperial is 1
15/16″ – which if you ask me is no less silly a number that 49.2 but
we’re stuck with it.</p>
<p>If this has given you a need for a new set of humbuckers you can find the <a data-id="https://mrglynspickups.com/mrglyns-humbucker-pickups/" data-type="link" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/" target="_blank">Mr Glyns Pickup humbucker range here.</a></p>
<p>Here is a link to my<a data-id="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOdXLT6XwMykEOjfDKlY6fBikNmVCBQXB&si=zA3b7E9MNjn22llr" data-type="link" href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOdXLT6XwMykEOjfDKlY6fBikNmVCBQXB&si=zA3b7E9MNjn22llr" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> YouTube playlist for humbucker demos.</a></p>
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<p>I thought it was going to be a straightforward pickup repair but is this pickup actually a Maxon humbucker?</p>
<div class="wp-block-rank-math-toc-block" id="rank-math-toc"><br /></div>
<p>As part of my work I repair pickups for luthiers. Most guitar
repairers don’t wind pickups and even the ones that do often send me
pickups to repair, it saves them a lot of time. One such repairer is
Auckland’s <a href="http://ramsayphillips.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ramsay Phillips</a>.</p>
<p>For me repairing pickups is a really interesting part of my job. I
enjoy seeing how the basic concept of a magnet and a coil of wire can be
made in so many different ways. Back in the 1990’s I first learned
about pickups by repairing them and I don’t think that instinct ever
leaves. Most of my pickup repair work is very straight forward but
occasionally something interesting comes along. This is one of those.</p>
<p>So Ramsay sent me a bridge humbucker from this 1970’s Antoria to
repair. I was expecting something like the classic Maxon U-1000 but
there was a surprise.</p>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a aria-label="" class="custom-link no-lightbox" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2023/07/04/maxon-humbucker/" rel="" target="_self" title="’74 Maxon Pickups"><img alt="Antoria with Maxon pickups" class="wp-image-9814" data-attachment-id="9814" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>’74 Maxon Pickups</p>" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.78","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 14 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1686759159","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.86","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.02","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="’74 Maxon Pickups" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_6561.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_6561.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_6561.jpg?fit=2184%2C2911&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2184,2911" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_6561/" height="499" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_6561.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1" style="height: auto; width: 374px;" width="374" /></a></figure></div>
<p>This is not the first Maxon Humbucker I’ve seen I’ve worked on a few
old Maxon pickups in my time and they have always deserved their great
reputation. So I had a good idea what to expect from this humbucker.</p>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img alt="Maxon humbucker?" class="wp-image-9815" data-attachment-id="9815" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Maxon 4917</p>" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Maxon 4917" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3644.jpg?fit=980%2C734&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3644.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3644.jpg?fit=3303%2C2475&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3303,2475" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_3644/" height="280" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3644.jpg?resize=980%2C734&ssl=1" style="aspect-ratio: 1.3356521739130436; height: auto; width: 374px;" width="374" /></figure></div>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="maxon-serial-number-dating">Maxon serial number dating</h2>
<p>The number on the base plate of this pickup is a date stamp not a model number though it would be nice to have both. </p>
<p>So to translate the Maxon pickup dating code:</p>
<p>The first number is a production line code</p>
<p>second number is the year, so in this case 1974</p>
<p>third number, the month, so September</p>
<p>and the last 2 are the day, so the 17th</p>
<p>So that tells us its from Sept 17th 1974. I always wonder why
manufacturers can’t just write the date plainly instead of a secret code
but they all seem to do it.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="something-unusual">Something unusual</h2>
<p> But there’s something odd here. The pole piece screws don’t extend
under the base plate. The 6 holes in the base where I expected to see
the poles are blocked by something. Time to get the cover off and see
what’s inside.</p>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img alt="Maxon 4917 baseplate" class="wp-image-9817" data-attachment-id="9817" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Maxon 4917</p>" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Maxon 4917" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3643.jpg?fit=980%2C734&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3643.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3643.jpg?fit=3303%2C2475&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3303,2475" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_3643/" height="283" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3643.jpg?resize=980%2C734&ssl=1" style="aspect-ratio: 1.3356521739130436; height: auto; width: 378px;" width="378" /></figure></div>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="whats-inside">What’s Inside?</h2>
<p>This is exactly what was inside – a single coil disguised as a
humbucker! So Maxon humbucker? Well, it’s a Maxon but not a humbucker.</p>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img alt="Maxon 4917 inside" class="wp-image-9816" data-attachment-id="9816" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Maxon 4917</p>" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Maxon 4917" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3646.jpg?fit=980%2C841&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3646.jpg?fit=300%2C257&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3646.jpg?fit=3303%2C2835&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3303,2835" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_3646/" height="321" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3646.jpg?resize=980%2C841&ssl=1" style="aspect-ratio: 1.165402124430956; height: auto; width: 374px;" width="374" /></figure></div>
<p>It has the typical floppy nylon bobbin I would expect to see in a
Maxon but this one is sitting on top of a large ceramic magnet.</p>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img alt="Maxon 4917 assembly inside" class="wp-image-9813" data-attachment-id="9813" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Maxon 4917</p>" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Maxon 4917" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3645.jpg?fit=980%2C791&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3645.jpg?fit=300%2C242&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3645.jpg?fit=3303%2C2664&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3303,2664" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_3645/" height="302" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3645.jpg?resize=980%2C791&ssl=1" style="aspect-ratio: 1.238709677419355; height: auto; width: 374px;" width="374" /></figure></div>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img alt="Maxon 4917 baseplate and magnet" class="wp-image-9819" data-attachment-id="9819" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Maxon 4917 magnet</p>" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Maxon 4917" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3642.jpg?fit=980%2C705&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3642.jpg?fit=300%2C216&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3642.jpg?fit=3303%2C2376&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3303,2376" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/img_3642/" height="272" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_3642.jpg?resize=980%2C705&ssl=1" style="aspect-ratio: 1.3887884267631103; height: auto; width: 378px;" width="378" /></figure></div>
<p>My job here is to fix this pickup so I remove the bobbin and start to carefully remove the sticky old tape.</p>
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<p>I remove the hookup wires and try re-soldering them to the winding
wire and the pickup comes to life. It was simply a dry joint. This one
is showing me 8KOhms on the meter which is in the ballpark of a PAF
though it would sound nothing like one.</p>
<p>You can see the metal plate mounted inside the bobbin that connects the short pole screws to the magnet.</p>
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<p>So, Maxon humbucker? Well, certainly Maxon but not a humbucker. Beware – not all Maxon pickups are classics.</p>
<p>I’ve had a look on line and can’t find a model number for this
pickup. It seems the only distinguishing feature from the outside is the
lack of pole screws through the base plate. </p>
<p>If you are interested in vintage humbucker tones check out the <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/03/29/integrity-vintage-humbucker-2/">Mr Glyn’s ‘Integrity’ humbucker</a>. It comes in 4 flavours or both bridge and neck.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mrglynspickups.com">www.mrglynspickups.com</a> <br /></p><p> </p><p> </p></div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-30298519705331672352023-04-24T07:59:00.000+12:002023-04-24T07:59:38.063+12:00Precision Bass<p>
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Precision Bass split pair is based on the Fenders of the early/mid
60’s. Full and clear with that distinctive mid range that sits well in
any mix. It is the essence of bass. It has the woody, full tones we all
love. As a stand alone or used with my Jazz Bass bridge pickup as part
of a PJ set.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="362" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hG99wNPSSgE" width="476" youtube-src-id="hG99wNPSSgE"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> Alnico V - 10.9 kOhms</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="www.mrglynspickups.com ">www.mrglynspickups.com </a><br /></p><p>Arguably the most important instrument of all of Leo Fender’s
creations the Precision bass changed music more than any other
instrument. From James Jameson to Steve Harris, the P Bass is
surprisingly versatile and has such a distinctive tone.</p>
<p>As with the early pickups this split pair is built to be hum
cancelling – the two coils are electrically out of phase but also
magnetically out of phase. Here’s an explanation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOX4WrjmKdo" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">How Humbuckers Work</a></p>
<p>With fingers, with a pick and especially with flat wounds.</p>
<p> My Precision Bass pickups are designed to be used with 250 K Ohm pots. </p>
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<p>For more P Bass fun: <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/04/06/bass-pickup-re-wind/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/04/06/bass-pickup-re-wind/</a></p>
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Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-36536913513675416242023-04-03T06:39:00.002+12:002023-04-03T09:45:18.297+12:00Cool 90<p> </p>The Cool 90 is a P90 based pickup available in both Dogear and
Soapbar. Designed with Jazz and Blues players in mind it produces a
clear, full, well balanced tone. Never harsh, always full and musical.
<p>The bridge pickup has an organic sound with a lower mid push ideally suited to dynamic lead lines and tight rhythm playing.</p>
<p>The neck pickup is clear and chiming with enough clarity to always be
heard in the mix. It has that lovely woody tone especially in an
archtop.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>For the shop and more pickups </b>- <a href="www.mrglynspickups.com " target="_blank">www.mrglynspickups.com </a><br /></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a aria-label="" class="custom-link no-lightbox" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2022/10/21/cool-90/" rel="" target="_self" title="Cool 90"><img alt="Cool 90 Guitar Pickup from Mr Gyn's Pickups" class="wp-image-6788 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" data-attachment-id="6788" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1663530433","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Cool 90" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Photo-18-09-22-7-47-13-PM.jpg?fit=980%2C734&ssl=1" data-lazy-loaded="1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Photo-18-09-22-7-47-13-PM.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Photo-18-09-22-7-47-13-PM.jpg?fit=3303%2C2475&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3303,2475" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2022/10/21/cool-90/photo-18-09-22-7-47-13-pm/" data-recalc-dims="1" height="349" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Photo-18-09-22-7-47-13-PM.jpg?resize=980%2C734&ssl=1" width="466" /></a></figure></div></div>
<p>For ‘full fat’ P90 tones have a look at our <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/06/19/sassy-p90/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">“Sassy” P90 pickup set</a>.</p>
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<p>Like many of my pickups the Cool 90 started with a repair job. A
customer sent be a faulty Gibson P90 out of a 1955 Les Paul Junior.
Naturally, I took measurements and completely analyzed every detail of
it. Unlike the information in the books (and internet) it had less
windings and Alnico II magnets instead of Alnico V. </p>
<p>And what a great sounding pickup it was.</p>
<p> I decided to make my own version of it to compliment the ‘Sassy” P90
pickup I was already making. The Sassy has the classic “full fat” P90
tone, plenty of growl and cut through.</p>
<p>The idea behind the “Cool 90” was to make a lower powered version for
the cleaner player. Still keeping the classic P90 character but with
less grunt.</p>
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<div class="wp-block-button"><p>Single – “Cool 90” P90 NZ$189 for NZ customers, if you’re overseas it’s GST free; NZ$164.35</p>
<p>Pair – “Cool 90” P90 NZ$369 for NZ customers, if you’re overseas they’re GST free; NZ$320.87</p>
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<p>Neck- 6.4 KOhms, 5.45H, Alnico II. Bridge 7.25 KOhms, 6.42H, Alnico II</p><p> </p><a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/mr-glyns-pickups-store/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"></a></div>
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<p>I also make a humbucker size P90 set – the “Black Sand” if you need
some P90 goodness in your humbucker guitar, here’s a link to them: <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/03/29/black-sand-humbucker-sized-p90-neck/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/03/29/black-sand-humbucker-sized-p90-neck/</a></p>
<p>For a full range of demo videos of Mr Glyn’s pickups go to my YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MrGlynsPickups/featured" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/MrGlynsPickups/featured</a></p>
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</div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-29253519253241471482023-03-27T17:05:00.006+13:002023-04-11T07:07:03.502+12:00Kōkako Strat Pickup<p> <a class="wp-block-button__link wp-element-button" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/mr-glyns-pickups-store/"></a>
</p><p>The Kōkako Strat Pickup is is strongly influenced by the Fender
Stratocaster pickups of the 60’s but with a little more. It has a full
yet clear bottom end , smooth highs and clear mids. It’s aimed at
players who love the sounds of Frusciante and Hendrix.</p>
<p>The Kōkako set was spawned by a few things coming together in November ’22.</p>
<p> For a while I’ve been offering my Bellbird Strat set with various
winding options – 5% under, 5% over or 10% overwound. I’ve been playing
with a 10% over wound set in one of my own Strats and for me they have
‘that’ vintage Strat tone that’s perfect with a little dirt be it fuzz
or overdrive. </p>
<p>I was sent a Strat pickup to re-wind and the customer told me his
ideal sound was Hendrix. I’d just read an article saying how Seymour
Duncan had wound some pickups for Hendrix and the spec of those pickups
looked very similar to the 10% overwound Bellbirds. </p><p>That got me
thinking.</p><p>The same day a customer contacted me wanting advice about my
pickups and which one would be best for a John Frusciante sound. </p><p>Well,
it’s the Bellbird +10%.</p><p>Here are the numbers: </p><p>Neck 6.15 KOhms, 2.79H, AlnicoV</p><p>Middle 6.15 KOhms,2.79H, AlnicoV</p><p>Bridge 6.64 KOhms, 3.08H, AlnicoV</p><p><b>For the shop and more pickups go to </b>: <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/">mrglynspickups.com</a><br /></p>
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<p>I thought this was too good to let go. </p><p>I could have left the pickup
as a version of the Bellbird but decided it needed its own life. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="404" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sFxIULAzk7Y" width="486" youtube-src-id="sFxIULAzk7Y"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p>My
Strat pickups are named after native New Zealand birds like the Bellbird
and the Tui; I chose the Kōkako because its song reflects the tonal
characteristics of the pickups. I wanted a bird that has a song fatter
and fuller sounding than the Bellbird but not as aggressive as the Tui –
so Kōkako Strat Pickup it is.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="393" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e911BtEdnjU" width="473" youtube-src-id="e911BtEdnjU"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p> </p>
<p>Here’s the original Bellbird pickup <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/03/29/bellbird-vintage-strat-set/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/03/29/bellbird-vintage-strat-set/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>
<p>And YouTube demos of all my Strat pickups <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOdXLT6XwMymw8-Kvl1fQi1wfkQ-iDg7z" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOdXLT6XwMymw8-Kvl1fQi1wfkQ-iDg7z</a></p>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-20060976113163258482023-03-21T12:06:00.000+13:002023-03-21T12:06:26.600+13:00Telecaster Bass<p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">There is something so unbelievably cool about the Fender Telecaster Bass. </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">The classic lines, that headstock, the pickguard, the association with great players and, of course, the tone. </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">What ever it is we all love about this great instrument here’s a pickup to do it justice.</span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WU2SqLVII6s" width="320" youtube-src-id="WU2SqLVII6s"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> <span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: rgba(6,95,212,1.000);"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3dxNE1RWnZIU3FZaE9fNHVlYkJDam9TQm9NQXxBQ3Jtc0ttQ2FnVy04V0JkQUJMaHBlMHduaEU5eWFIT0swS1hjTHRyd0hIV2dGZlRjckRQVm05Q3JYTXdHQ2d2WHhfZVMtZVlVV1JrZkdKSDMyV0xCa3kxUVU2YnJTanBwNVR0cTVUVEx6UWxCdnJhUTNQQmszUQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fmrglynspickups.com%2F2022%2F10%2F14%2Ftelecaster-bass%2F&v=WU2SqLVII6s" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/2022/10/14...</a></span> </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> Whether you play with fingers or a pick this classic pickup will deliver. </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">More present in the mix than the Precision split pair but with that distinctive punch and clarity. This bass is also known as a '51Bass.</span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> Over the years I’ve re-wound a lot of old Fender pickups. I like to make notes to record what I find in these old pickups, wire gauge, insulation types, d.c. resistance, magnetic gauss, dimensions. </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">My notebook is getting pretty full. </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">This is my constant reference when I’m designing a new pickup, that and my ears.
I’ve based these pickups on the best of the old Fenders I’ve come across over the years.</span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> Not all vintage pickups are great but when you see enough of the good ones patterns begin to form. </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> I still repair pickups and still add to my old notebook, always learning 😎. </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Thanks to Mark Hughes for his playing on this bass pickup demo, he is available for on line lessons <span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: rgba(6,95,212,1.000);"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnoybVA4N25kUWdZSWRSQ2dwTnMyUWRsbHJrQXxBQ3Jtc0tuN2Nsakdfdl9jNFJzRmJFeHFCdDBKd1I0ekZYaHJaWld5WjNIQlYzNVp0YzBOMnRVX1VnTS1VZWVKbFdnN1czWGtzWjl0MmUzMDFObHNIa2o5Y1pwTXJGN2s1dGlYMWxwaU1HTWZzVXFwYk1ob3JOYw&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markhughesbass.com%2F&v=WU2SqLVII6s" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">http://www.markhughesbass.com/</a></span>
Telecaster Bass Pickup - Mr Glyn's Pickups</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Source Sans Pro, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" style="color: #282828;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Source Sans Pro, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" style="color: #282828;"><br /><br /></span></div><span face="Source Sans Pro, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" style="color: #282828;"><br /></span><p></p>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-54887269646772065932022-09-01T11:51:00.002+12:002022-09-01T11:56:54.361+12:00The 5150 Show<p> </p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; 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They’re series ‘Rankin The Tracks’ gives great insight into some classic albums. 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></span></span></figure><div><span style="color: #897248;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-37365142981430414872022-08-23T19:26:00.008+12:002022-08-23T19:26:50.419+12:00Larry and the Trons<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 2.61792em;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #333333; font-size: 2.61792em; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px 0px 0.540791em;"><br /></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; max-width: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">Larry and the Trons is a short video by Brett Kingman to demonstrate Mr Glyn’s Pickups TheTron pickup set in a Telecaster Cabronita.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">I sent him a set of TheTron pickups to make a demo and this is the 4th video he’s made – he must like them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">I designed TheTron pickup set with Gretsch guitars in mind and in particular the lightly overdriven sound of early Malcolm Young. It’s great when a player takes your design and makes you re-think it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">Since Brett fitted his set into a Telecaster Cabronita I’ve changed the spec of these pickups and now offer them in 52mm and 49.2mm spacing to match Fender style bridges. I do try and listen to players whenever I can.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;"><br /></p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="552" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ga0qYdh565s?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 585px; inset: 0px; max-width: 100%; position: absolute; width: 1040px;" width="980"></iframe></span></div></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">TheTron pickup set is based around the legendary Gretsch pickups Of the 50’s and 60’s. To say TheTron has character is an understatement. TheTron is full and rounded with a well balanced mid range but with that distinctive ‘Clank’ that separates it from other pickups. The neck pickup is clear and fat and the bridge stands out from the mix without ever sounding harsh.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">Over the years I’ve repaired a fair few old Gretsch pickups and noticed the best sounding ones are at the upper range for ohms. I’ve taken that design and tweaked it until I got the fullness I was looking for but without loosing clarity or clank.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">Most of my pickups are made in collaboration with a professional player, but not TheTron. I started playing guitar at the age of 16 when I first heard Malcolm Young – a Filtertron through an almost clean valve amp. I didn’t feel I needed another set of ears for this one, I knew exactly what I wanted.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">I needed this pickup set to be crystal clear with a clean amplifier but to come into its own when pushing an amp to clip. The neck pickup needed to be clear, full and chiming in both a big archtop and in the neck position of a Telecaster. The bridge pickup needed to have no shortage of character, a clean almost jangly tone when played gently but with enough go in it to push the front end of a valve amp to clip when you dig in.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">TheTron is the perfect pickup as a Gretsch upgrade, for the modern player wanting something other than Gibson style humbuckers, rockabilly players after that traditional tone, jazz players or, like me, Malcolm Young fans. There’s so much you can to with The Tron.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">For the modern player with one foot in the past.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">Here’s TheTron’s home page for more info and demos <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #897248;">https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/</a></p><figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: center;"><br /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">TheTron pickup set is based around the legendary Gretsch pickups Of the 50’s and 60’s. To say TheTron has character is an understatement. TheTron is full and rounded with a well balanced mid range but with that distinctive ‘Clank’ that separates it from other pickups. The neck pickup is clear and fat and the bridge stands out from the mix without ever sounding harsh.</span><br /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: start;">Over the years I’ve repaired a fair few old Gretsch pickups and noticed the best sounding ones are at the upper range for ohms. I’ve taken that design and tweaked it until I got the fullness I was looking for but without loosing clarity or clank.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: start;">Most of my pickups are made in collaboration with a professional player, but not TheTron. I started playing guitar at the age of 16 when I first heard Malcolm Young – a Filtertron through an almost clean valve amp. I didn’t feel I needed another set of ears for this one, I knew exactly what I wanted.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: start;">I needed this pickup set to be crystal clear with a clean amplifier but to come into its own when pushing an amp to clip. The neck pickup needed to be clear, full and chiming in both a big archtop and in the neck position of a Telecaster. The bridge pickup needed to have no shortage of character, a clean almost jangly tone when played gently but with enough go in it to push the front end of a valve amp to clip when you dig in.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: start;">TheTron is the perfect pickup as a Gretsch upgrade, for the modern player wanting something other than Gibson style humbuckers, rockabilly players after that traditional tone, jazz players or, like me, Malcolm Young fans. There’s so much you can to with The Tron.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: start;">For the modern player with one foot in the past.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: start;">Here’s TheTron’s home page for more info and demos <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #897248;">https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/</a></p></figure><figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Mr Glyns TheTron pickup set. Larry and the Trons
" class="wp-image-5461 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" data-attachment-id="5461" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?fit=980%2C734&ssl=1" data-lazy-loaded="1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?fit=2202%2C1650&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2202,1650" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/?attachment_id=5461" data-recalc-dims="1" height="416" loading="eager" sizes="(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?resize=980%2C734&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C767&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C575&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1151&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1535&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?resize=416%2C312&ssl=1 416w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Photo-24-11-21-7-50-06-PM-1.jpeg?w=1960&ssl=1 1960w" style="border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="665" /></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.41575em;">Larry and the Trons <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga0qYdh565s" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #897248;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga0qYdh565s</a></p></div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-64811441359570234652022-06-14T11:39:00.001+12:002022-06-14T11:39:37.670+12:00Tele Cabronita – ‘TheTron’<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: var(--font-headings, "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell", "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif); font-size: 20px;">Was great to see this Brett Kingman demo using a Tele Cabronita with Mr Glyns The Tron pickups to demonstrate some really cool pedals the other day. He’s got dozens of guitars to choose from, so chuffed he chose my pickups.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: none;"><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" data-carousel-extra="{"blog_id":1,"permalink":"https:\/\/mrglynspickups.com\/2022\/06\/14\/tele-cabronita-thetron\/"}" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; position: relative;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" loading="lazy" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uUC3duenh2I?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 421.875px; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 750px;" width="750"></iframe></span></div></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">TheTron pickup set is based around the legendary Gretsch pickups Of the 50’s and 60’s. To say TheTron has character is an understatement. TheTron is full and rounded with a well balanced mid range but with that distinctive ‘Clank’ that separates it from other pickups. The neck pickup is clear and fat and the bridge stands out from the mix without ever sounding harsh.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">There are more demos here: <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/</a></p><figure class="wp-container-6 wp-block-gallery-5 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" data-carousel-extra="{"blog_id":1,"permalink":"https:\/\/mrglynspickups.com\/2022\/06\/14\/tele-cabronita-thetron\/"}" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px;"></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Over the years I’ve repaired a fair few old Gretsch pickups and noticed the best sounding ones are at the upper range for ohms. I’ve taken that design and tweaked it until I got the fullness I was looking for but without loosing clarity or clank.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Most of my pickups are made in collaboration with a professional player, but not TheTron. I started playing guitar at the age of 16 when I first heard Malcolm Young – a Filtertron through an almost clean valve amp. I didn’t feel I needed another set of ears for this one, I knew exactly what I wanted.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I needed this pickup set to be crystal clear with a clean amplifier but to come into its own when pushing an amp to clip. The neck pickup needed to be clear, full and chiming in both a big archtop and in the neck position of a Telecaster. The bridge pickup needed to have no shortage of character, a clean almost jangly tone when played gently but with enough go in it to push the front end of a valve amp to clip when you dig in.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">TheTron is the perfect pickup as a Gretsch upgrade, for the modern player wanting something other than Gibson style humbuckers, rockabilly players after that traditional tone, jazz players or, like me, Malcolm Young fans. There’s so much you can to with The Tron.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-self: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 750px;"><img alt=" Tele Cabronita" class="wp-image-4587 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" data-attachment-id="4587" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="4587" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="TheTron s" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?fit=750%2C562&ssl=1" data-lazy-loaded="1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?fit=1024%2C767&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1024,767" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/thetron-s/" data-recalc-dims="1" height="562" loading="eager" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?resize=750%2C562&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?resize=768%2C575&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/TheTron-s.jpg?resize=200%2C150&ssl=1 200w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; display: block; flex: 1 0 0%; height: 561.521px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: bottom; width: 750px;" width="750" /></figure><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">For the modern player with one foot in the past.</p><figure class="wp-container-8 wp-block-gallery-7 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped" data-carousel-extra="{"blog_id":1,"permalink":"https:\/\/mrglynspickups.com\/2022\/06\/14\/tele-cabronita-thetron\/"}" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: normal; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-self: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 750px;"><img alt=" Tele Cabronita
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Asymmetric coils give an open sounding mid range and the Alnico II magnet gives clarity and balance. A rich bottom end, characterful mids and sweet treble make this a pickup set for every situation – Jazz, Blues, Rock, it does it all.</p><p>Every pickup manufacturer makes a “Vintage” humbucker based on the Gibson PAF, of course they do – old Gibsons sound so good.</p><p>So how come they all sound so different? Well, the simple answer is that PAF’s were all different. I’ve been a full time luthier since 1995, whenever I come across an old humbucker I test the ohms and the gause and have a good listen. They’re all different. My conclusion is that pickup manufacturers have taken the PAF they like and based their own version on that. Old PAF’s vary so much so modern ones do as well.</p><p>I like my own version to be clear sounding, have obvious string separation and definition and to keep clarity no matter how much gain. The mids must be strong and woody, this is not a “scooped” pickup. The clean sound needs to be chimey and clear with no mush; through a valve amp I want clarity. When I tickle it I want clean and vocal sounding when it clips. The bridge pickup needs to be well behaved with high gain and clear with enough cut through so the drummer knows you’re there. The neck smooth, clear and articulate. Warm but with none of the boom you get with a more powerful pickup.</p><p>I don’t want much do I.</p><p>My “Integrity”-vintage humbucker has an Alnico II magnet and I’ve used plain enamel insulated magnet wire with asymmetric coils to open up the mids. The very first pickup I ever made back in 1995 was a PAF style and I’ve been tweaking the recipe ever since. Like all my pickups I’ve used a number of test pilot players in its development as well as gigging it myself. It wasn’t until around 2015 that I settled on this particular design. I did a gig with a set in a PRS SE series only last weekend – sounded great to me.</p><p>The full and honest sound of the Integrity-vintage humbucker along with it’s timeless tone inspired the name “Integrity”. <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Integrity humbucker in a HSS Strat" class="wp-image-3460" height="352" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg" width="296" /><figcaption>Mr Glyn's Pickups Logo - Roboguy</figcaption></figure></div><div class="wp-block-image"></div><p><!-- wp:paragraph -->
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<!-- /wp:paragraph --></p><p>Integrity humbucker in a HSS Strat</p>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-19976743391969729722022-02-13T19:18:00.002+13:002022-02-13T19:18:36.142+13:00Eat My Packaging<p> </p><header class="entry-header responsive-max-width" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); text-align: center;"><h2 class="entry-title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: var(--font-headings, "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell", "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif); font-size: 2.98598rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.125; margin: 0px; max-width: unset; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></h2></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: none;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’ve just published a couple of videos on YouTube entitled ‘Eat My Packaging’. The idea is to demonstrate that our packaging is compostable and to have some fun at the same time.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’d love other businesses to think about how they send their products and maybe make some changes.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">If you think this is a good idea I’d love it if you could share it on your social media and maybe ask a business to do the same and post a video or pictures on #eatmypackaging</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Here’s the short version:</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; position: relative;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" loading="lazy" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ttb3A8O9KDY?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 421.875px; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 750px;" width="750"></iframe></span></div></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">And there’s a longer talky one:</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; position: relative;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" loading="lazy" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MyiTRdlmptc?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 421.875px; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 750px;" width="750"></iframe></span></div></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">No pickup makers were harmed in the making of this video.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Eat My Packaging is not something I recommend you try and do – you’ve got way more sense than that.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Mr Glyn’s Pickups is a small manufacturer operating from one of the more distant corners of the planet sending delicate products all over the World. If we can manage to use fully bio degradable packaging then there’s no reason why others can’t. You don’t need bubble wrap, you don’t need plastic bags.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’m going to use this video to encourage my suppliers to do the same. Too many of the parts we use arrive in plastic bags. We do our best to re-use these and some can be re-cycled. It isn’t perfect but we’re working on it.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The products we sell contain plastics and metals but our pickups are designed to last at least 50 years and after that are repairable. Again not perfect, but we’re doing our best.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">If you think this is a good idea please share on all your social media, tell your friends and maybe challenge a business to #eatmypackaging</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: calc(750px); text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: table; float: none; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="#eatmypackaging Eat My Packaging" class="wp-image-2660 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="2660" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1583009977","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="RoboLogo-1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?fit=750%2C617&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?fit=300%2C247&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?fit=1629%2C1340&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1629,1340" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/08/18/an-amazing-fact-about-guitar-pickups/robologo-1/" data-sizes="(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=341%2C280&ssl=1" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C842&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=300%2C247&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=768%2C632&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1263&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C987&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=1568%2C1290&ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?w=1629&ssl=1 1629w" height="280" sizes="(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=341%2C280&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C842&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=300%2C247&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=768%2C632&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1263&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C987&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?resize=1568%2C1290&ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/RoboLogo-1.jpg?w=1629&ssl=1 1629w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="341" /></figure></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Mr Glyn’s Pickups are handmade in New Zealand <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MrGlynsPickups/videos" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/MrGlynsPickups/videos</a></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto 0px; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Next time I’ll try and make a cheese toastie <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></p></div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.885971-69.210790836178845 139.729721 -12.590323163821154 -149.95777899999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-51204338958574226052022-01-27T11:35:00.000+13:002022-01-27T11:35:02.149+13:00The Guitar Knobs Podcast<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Had a great time chatting with the guys at The Guitar Knobs Podcast the other day. We talked about pickup design, methods of construction, materials and my favourite pedals.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: none;"><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-guitar-knobs-podcast wp-block-embed-the-guitar-knobs-podcast" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; position: relative;"><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="nZBNjwoqhi" frameborder="0" height="499" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://www.theguitarknobs.com/portfolio-item/251-interview-with-mr-glyns-pickups/embed/#?secret=9VdlkWtQbP#?secret=nZBNjwoqhi" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="“251-INTERVIEW WITH MR. GLYNS PICKUPS” — THE GUITAR KNOBS PODCAST" width="600"></iframe></div></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">If you want to hear more, here’s a chat with The Australian Guitar Show from 2021. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-t1MWB87hY&t=13s" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-t1MWB87hY&t=13s</a></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">MrGlyn’s Pickups is based at Muriwai Beach near Auckland, New Zealand. From low powered “vintage” to powerful rock monsters. We care about your tone.</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mr-glyn-039-s-pickups wp-block-embed-mr-glyn-039-s-pickups" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: none; position: relative;"><blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Y1h0h9eTKR" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: unset; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: unset; text-decoration-line: none;">Mr Glyn’s Pickups</a></blockquote><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Y1h0h9eTKR" frameborder="0" height="338" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/embed/#?secret=JyYB2QP13r#?secret=Y1h0h9eTKR" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute;" title="“Mr Glyn’s Pickups” — Mr Glyn's Pickups" width="600"></iframe></div></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; max-width: unset;">My Story</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">My name is Glyn Evans. I have been a full time pickup winder and luthier since 1995.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I wound my first pickup under the guidance of legendary guitar repairer Ted Lee while studying guitar making/repair under him at City of Leeds College of Music in the North of England.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">There’s something about the physics that really appealed to me. I went straight home, built my own winding machine, bought some wire and started experimenting.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">In those pre-internet days there just wasn’t any information available on how to make good pickups. I made pickup after pickup, I wound and I listened. I made notes of every variation both good and bad so I could learn what was happening.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Looking back I think that time was invaluable for developing an intuition for making pickups. Whenever I came across a result I didn’t understand I swatted up on the physics; there’s a lot to learn. I wrote all the experiments down in a notebook, I still have the notebook and I’m still adding to it. <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/</a></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">In 2012 I had the idea for my own range of pickups. In 2020 MrGlyn’s Pickups website went live.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’ve been lucky enough to know many professional players who’ve given their time and expertise to help me. Every pickup design I make has been tested both by me and some of these “test pilots”. They’ve been in and out of numerous guitars, recorded, gigged, analysed and altered more times than I can remember.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I am really happy with the results, I hope you will be too.</p><div class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: calc(750px); text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: table; float: none; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Mr Glyn's Pickups -The Guitar Knobs Podcast" class="wp-image-3460 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="3460" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Mr Glyn’s Pickups Logo – Roboguy</p>
" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="img_0034" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?fit=464%2C550&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?fit=253%2C300&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?fit=464%2C550&ssl=1" data-orig-size="464,550" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/06/24/telecaster-bridge-pickup-repair/img_0034-14/" data-sizes="(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?resize=233%2C277&ssl=1" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?w=464&ssl=1 464w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?resize=253%2C300&ssl=1 253w" height="277" sizes="(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?resize=233%2C277&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?w=464&ssl=1 464w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img_0034.jpg?resize=253%2C300&ssl=1 253w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="233" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; caption-side: bottom; color: #686868; display: table-caption; font-size: 0.69444rem; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: calc(8px); max-width: unset;">Mr Glyn’s Pickups Logo – Roboguy</figcaption></figure></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The Guitar Knobs Podcast</p></div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.885971-69.210790836178845 139.729721 -12.590323163821154 -149.95777899999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-62314222809589082292021-12-22T20:51:00.001+13:002021-12-22T20:51:48.774+13:00Hamurana Guitars NZ<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: var(--font-headings, "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell", "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif); font-size: 20px;">It’s always interesting to see where my pickups end up, in this case Hamurana Guitars NZ.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: none;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Hamurana Guitars featuring Mr Glyns Pickups" class="wp-image-4712 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4712" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="img_9092" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" data-orig-size="750,563" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/12/22/hamurana-guitars/img_9092/" data-sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?resize=750%2C563&ssl=1" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?w=750&ssl=1 750w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?resize=200%2C150&ssl=1 200w" height="563" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?resize=750%2C563&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?w=750&ssl=1 750w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9092.jpg?resize=200%2C150&ssl=1 200w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; font-size: 0.69444rem; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: calc(8px); max-width: unset;">Hamurana Guitars</figcaption></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">They make World class guitars combining looks, playability and tone. I’ve played a few – they are outstanding.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Hamurana have used my pickups in a few builds and it’s always great to see what he comes up with. This time he’s used a pair of my my <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/03/29/black-sand-humbucker-sized-p90-neck/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;" target="_blank">Black Sand</a> humbucker size P90’s.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">You can get in touch with Hamurana Guitars and order your dream guitar here:</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.hamuranaguitarworks.co.nz/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;">https://www.hamuranaguitarworks.co.nz/</a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Hamurana Guitars made in New Zealand" class="wp-image-4714 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4714" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="img_9091" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?fit=1080%2C810&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1080,810" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/12/22/hamurana-guitars/img_9091/" data-sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=750%2C563&ssl=1" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=200%2C150&ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=750%2C563&ssl=1 750w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w" height="563" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=750%2C563&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=200%2C150&ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?resize=750%2C563&ssl=1 750w, https://i0.wp.com/mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_9091.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="750" /></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Here’s more info on the Black Sand pickups:</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The humbucker sized P90 is a great pickup – it sits tonally between a humbucker and and a strat type pickup. If your neck humbucker is a bit thick and woolly sounding for you, you want more clarity, or just want a different tone, then this one may be the answer. The physical size of this pickup is identical to that of a “normal” humbucker so it will pop straight in.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">P90’s are different to other single coil pickups. They have a wide, flat coil similar to that of a Jazzmaster but the magnetic field is a very different shape. Fender single coil pickups have the coil wound around the magnet giving a focused, precise percussive sound. A P90 has 2 bar magnets underneath the coil; this broadens the magnetic window allowing the pickup to listen to a bit more string and thickens the sound. I chose Alnico V bar magnets for this model to help give some grit and power characteristic of a P90.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Of course, too much power and the pickup would sound too thick and bass heavy which is not its purpose. Too little power and it just won’t snarl.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Humbucker sized P90s are such a useful pickup. They sit tonally between a single coil and a humbucker (roughly speaking). and their physical size means they pop straight into any humbucker equipped guitar.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />The development of my “Black Sand” pickup was a bit backwards. Usually I make a bridge pickup first and work from there but with this one the neck pickup came first. I had a customer ask for a neck pickup for an es335 to sound clearer than his existing Gibson humbucker. I sold a few neck pickups before thinking it would be a good idea to have a set. So I started work on the bridge pickup.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />I wanted this bridge pickup to have clarity in the lower mids to stand out from humbuckers while having enough power to grit up nicely. I wanted it to be clean when tickled and to growl at you when you dig in. P90’s are all about dynamics. It had to match the existing neck pickup or work well as a stand alone in a HSS situation.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />Of all the pickups in my range this one came together the quickest. There were only 4 or 5 prototypes and I was happy. Experience and intuition combined with a notebook where I’ve written down details of every experimental pickup I’ve made since 1995.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">There were a load of prototypes in and out of a Les Paul, Tele Delux and PRS, through different amps and in the hands of different players. I never trust just my own ears with my pickups. I like to get opinions and suggestions from a few players before making any final decisions. I listen to what players say and I adjust prototypes accordingly, but at the end of the day the final decision is mine. I’m always aware of the phrase “a camel is a horse designed by committee”.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">It took a while to get this one right. A pickup would sound great at workshop volume, them I’d play it in a band situation and it would be too boomy, too much like a humbucker. So I’d have a think and make another. In the end persistence paid off.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The pickups I finally settled on went into my Les Paul and off to a gig for the ultimate test, and that’s where they’re staying.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The neck “Black Sand” is a great match for either my “Integrity” or “Cloud Nine” bridge humbuckers or as a set with its equivalent “Black Sand” bridge humbucker sized P90.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I agonised over what to call this pickup set. I wanted a name that would reflect the apparent contradiction in P90’s. From the perspective of a humbucker player they are clear and chiming. From the viewpoint of a single coil player they are powerful and gritty. They’re one thing while looking like another. I wanted a oxymoron to reflect this contradiction, one that might include the unique magnetic structure that gives the P90 its character. So I went for a run along Muriwai beach to think. And there it was staring me in the face (literally). Muriwai has black volcanic sand due to its iron content and it’s magnetic. So I’ve called this set “Black Sand”.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’m very happy with this pickup – hopefully you will be too.</p><div class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: calc(750px); text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: table; float: none; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Mr Glyns Pickups" class="wp-image-3591 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="3591" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Mr Glyns Pickups</p>
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border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="431" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; caption-side: bottom; color: #686868; display: table-caption; font-size: 0.69444rem; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: calc(8px); max-width: unset;">Mr Glyns Pickups</figcaption></figure></div></div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-7574058303433097022021-12-03T10:11:00.000+13:002021-12-03T10:11:18.787+13:00Minx – mini humbucker<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">If you love your mini humbucker guitar but want a bit more power than standard Deluxe style pickups the ‘Minx’ mini humbucker is the pickup for you.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: none;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: IBM Plex Sans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;"><span style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; gap: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: calc(750px);"><div class="wp-container-61a934ec168b5 wp-block-buttons" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 0.5em; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px);"></div></span></span><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a aria-label="" class="custom-link no-lightbox" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/11/minx-mini-humbucker/" rel="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self" title="Minx"><img alt="Minx hot mini humbucker MrGlyn’s Pickups " class="wp-image-4371 ls-is-cached lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4371" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Minx" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1024x767.jpg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-300x225.jpg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1.jpg" data-orig-size="2202,1650" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/11/minx-mini-humbucker/min1/" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1024x767.jpg" data-srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-768x575.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1568x1175.jpg 1568w" height="767" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1024x767.jpg" srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-768x575.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min1-1568x1175.jpg 1568w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1024" /></a></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The Minx has plenty of that mini humbucker clarity and tonality but with more power and more grit.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The ‘Minx’ is a clean clear sounding mini humbucker but with more power than the vintage Gibson’s. There is warmth and clarity but with more powerful windings than the ‘Mini’ along with an alnicoV magnet they will push your amp harder.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">AlnicoV – Bridge 10.5 KOhms, AlnicoV – Neck 6.6KOhms</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">With narrower coils than a PAF mini humbuckers ‘hear’ a narrower part of the string resulting in cleaner highs, a less pushy lower mid range and a distinctive clear bass that’s never woofy or wooly.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The neck pickup has the same coils as the ‘Mini’ but with an alnicoV magnet they have a fatter power and make a great match to the Minx bridge pickup.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The bridge pickup has a characterful mid range with a bite and fullness that is lacking in most mini humbuckers. You wouldn’t describe this pickup as polite and it will certainly put you towards the front of any mix.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a aria-label="" class="custom-link no-lightbox" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/11/minx-mini-humbucker/" rel="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self" title="Minx"><img alt="Minx hot mini humbucker set MrGlyn’s Pickups " class="wp-image-4372 ls-is-cached lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4372" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Minx" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1024x767.jpg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-300x225.jpg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1.jpg" data-orig-size="2202,1650" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/11/minx-mini-humbucker/min3-1/" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1024x767.jpg" data-srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-768x575.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1568x1175.jpg 1568w" height="767" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1024x767.jpg" srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-768x575.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min3-1-1568x1175.jpg 1568w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1024" /></a></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Great for the blues or rock player after dynamics – tickle it and it’s clean but when you dig in there’s enough power to push the front end of your amp into break up when you ask it to.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Although he Les Paul Deluxe was a short lived guitar in the Gibson range the mini humbucker has lived on. It is a very popular pickup in custom guitars particularly the neck pickup and is a great match for Mr Glyn’s ‘Cruel Mistress’ telecaster bridge pickup.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">If you’re looking for a pickup that is clearer than a PAF, has a less prominent lower mid spike with an even balanced tone then the mini humbucker could be the pickup for you.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">For a lower powered mini humbucker take a look at the ‘Mini’ <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/12/mini-humbucker/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/12/mini-humbucker/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONIZiyhUUqM/X7WGeavkxMI/AAAAAAAAEnE/v3MWEELeZxM8ZfxUy_RfCx4Py9OQf2grACPcBGAYYCw/s1123/BFF30151-04A5-4873-A83B-B94F86C6800A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="794" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONIZiyhUUqM/X7WGeavkxMI/AAAAAAAAEnE/v3MWEELeZxM8ZfxUy_RfCx4Py9OQf2grACPcBGAYYCw/s320/BFF30151-04A5-4873-A83B-B94F86C6800A.jpeg" width="226" /></a></div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: IBM Plex Sans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/">https://mrglynspickups.com/</a></span></span><br /><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-91579406156891631252021-12-03T10:04:00.000+13:002021-12-03T10:04:10.199+13:00‘Mini’ – mini humbucker<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The ‘Mini’ is inspired by the Gibson mini humbuckers of the 70’s used in the Les Paul Deluxe.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: none;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The ‘Mini’ is a clean clear sounding mini humbucker with the warmth and clarity from an alnico II magnet combined with low winding strength. This gives them a full, smooth, chiming bass, clear mids and an almost jangly treble, present but never harsh.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> </span>Alnico II – Bridge 7.25 KOhms, Alnico II – Neck 6.6 KOhms</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Great for jazz, funk, blues, pop or any genre that requires a clean, low powered humbucker set.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a aria-label="" class="custom-link no-lightbox" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/12/mini-humbucker/" rel="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self" title="Mini humbucker"><img alt="Mini humbucker by MrGlyn’s Pickups " class="wp-image-4377 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4377" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Mini humbucker" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1024x767.jpg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-300x225.jpg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM.jpg" data-orig-size="2202,1650" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/12/mini-humbucker/photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-pm/" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1024x767.jpg" data-srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-768x575.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1568x1175.jpg 1568w" height="767" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1024x767.jpg" srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-768x575.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-11-11-21-7-51-39-PM-1568x1175.jpg 1568w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1024" /></a></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Mini humbuckers are great pickups, lower in power than their full size sisters their clarity comes from less windings around a smaller bobbin. The smaller size of the pickup means they ‘hear’ less of the string length than a full size humbucker. The result is a clearer tone with less of the lower mid range push that you get from a PAF.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a aria-label="" class="custom-link no-lightbox" href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/12/mini-humbucker/" rel="" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self" title="Mini humbucker set"><img alt="Mini humbucker set by MrGlyn’s Pickups " class="wp-image-4374 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4374" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Mini humbucker set" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1024x767.jpg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-300x225.jpg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4.jpg" data-orig-size="2202,1650" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/11/11/minx-mini-humbucker/min4/" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1024x767.jpg" data-srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-768x575.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1568x1175.jpg 1568w" height="767" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1024x767.jpg" srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-768x575.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-2048x1535.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/min4-1568x1175.jpg 1568w" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1024" /></a></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The neck pickup has a clear voice ideal for funk or jazz. The neck and bridge pickups together have a perfect balance when used together, ideal for clean rhythm playing. The bridge pickup alone has a cheeky ‘cut through’ quality pushing you to the front of any mix.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Although he Les Paul Deluxe was a short lived guitar in the Gibson range the mini humbucker has lived on. It is a very popular pickup in custom guitars particularly the neck pickup and is a great match for Mr Glyn’s ‘Cruel Mistress’ telecaster bridge pickup.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">If you’re looking for a pickup that is clearer than a PAF, has a less prominent lower mid spike with an even balanced tone then the mini humbucker could be the pickup for you.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); 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The Mr Glyn’s “Sassy” P90 is a pickup set influenced by the Gibson P90’s of the late 50’s. The “Sassy” have a distinctive woody aggressive tone, full of character.
The highs are smooth yet punchy, there’s a chiming bottom end and a very obvious mid range that pushes through the mix. If you tickle the strings they’re clean and clear but dig in and there’s no shortage of power to drive the front end of your amp.
I’ve grown to love P90’s over the years, it’s the sound of those early Gibson Les Paul Juniors. It’s a pickup that needs no extras, just straight into a good amp. They’re happy to power pedals but there’s a fullness and balance that seems to need nothing else.
I wanted the “Sassy” P90 set to live up to its name and have the dynamic range that I love about P90’s.
The wide flat coil of a P90 gives a richer, less percussive tone than other single coil pickups and this is where the full tone comes from. I’ve sat both neck and bridge pickups on top of a pair of Alnico V magnets to give the power this pickup needs and help add that bit of grit when played hard.I’ve made the neck pickup smooth and fat but with clarity and chime enough for jazz.
The bridge pickup has the dynamics, pushy mids and aggressive highs when pushed but cleans up when you ask it to.This is a pickup set that would be happy in almost any situation, blues, rock, punk, reggae… If it’s a full bodied, dynamic P90 you’re after look no further.
The Sassy is available in Dogear and Soapbar.I’ve named this set the “Sassy” P90 set to reflect these pickup’s attitude, they’re bold, spicy, disrespectful and a bit cheeky.'Sassy'
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It's a humbucker for players that don't like humbuckers. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="c05b8916-b688-4fb8-85c3-3338320952f5" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-c05b8916-b688-4fb8-85c3-3338320952f5" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">This pickup set is all about pure clarity. There are no pushy lower mids that make your clean sound a mush. The highs are clean and clear but not harsh, the bottom end is clear but with none of that humbucker woof. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="dc332438-452e-4795-bfdc-e0201fdd2fdd" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-dc332438-452e-4795-bfdc-e0201fdd2fdd" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">If single coils are too harsh and unforgiving, conventional humbuckers too powerful and muddy then here's the solution. The "Clear View" humbucker is low powered and balanced, designed for the textural player, great with reverbs and modulation, sits its the mix without getting in the way. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7b047a57-f684-4f32-b980-87df2bfcad69" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7b047a57-f684-4f32-b980-87df2bfcad69" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">If you want a low powered ‘Vintage’ humbucker with all the character of a PAF get a MrGlyn’s ‘Integrity’ humbucker. If humbuckers sound too thick and you crave extra clarity then the ‘Clear View’ is for you.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="08862cb4-ef91-4684-b9fd-3bfcb1667103" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-08862cb4-ef91-4684-b9fd-3bfcb1667103" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">And, of course, it’s hum cancelling. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="a5d47226-e5fe-40b1-b725-40159d504e42" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-a5d47226-e5fe-40b1-b725-40159d504e42" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">This is not a pickup born to rock, it's more than that.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="b796e67d-edad-4994-b52b-fdf48a091d74" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-b796e67d-edad-4994-b52b-fdf48a091d74" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Here's a short video, to show the clarity and balance of the "clear View" Pickups.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="b796e67d-edad-4994-b52b-fdf48a091d74" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-b796e67d-edad-4994-b52b-fdf48a091d74" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;" tabindex="0"><span face="IBM Plex Sans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 20px; 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box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;" tabindex="0"><figure class="wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px; position: relative;"><iframe class="components-sandbox" height="439" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 438.75px; inset: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; width: 780px;" title="Embedded content from youtube.com" width="780"></iframe><div class="block-library-embed__interactive-overlay" style="box-sizing: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"></div></div></figure></div><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="4790f4b5-0ddb-498e-b781-0207f79d7cea" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-4790f4b5-0ddb-498e-b781-0207f79d7cea" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The Clear View Story </span></p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="7ff90607-f20c-4ba8-a65c-f20ef8872ab0" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-7ff90607-f20c-4ba8-a65c-f20ef8872ab0" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">It started with a phone call from luthier Ramsay Phillips. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="c795e53e-1459-49de-9070-6fba4ed1d7c9" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-c795e53e-1459-49de-9070-6fba4ed1d7c9" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">I've got huge respect for Ramsay, he's worked all over the world and has a great client list (including Steve Vai). He knows guitars, knows tone and he's a thinker. So when he calls to talk about a new pickup idea I listen.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="524558da-0ff5-48d5-8351-92ae4468a166" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-524558da-0ff5-48d5-8351-92ae4468a166" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">He was interested in having a humbucker for people that didn’t like humbuckers (his phrase). A pickup with clear tone and low powered but not like a PAF, clearer than that. He wanted a midrange more like a single coil than a traditional humbucker. At first I thought my ‘Black Sand’ humbucker size P90 would suit him but as he talked I realised he didn’t want the grit of a P90. He’s very well practiced at describing sound so I felt I understood what he meant. He assured me he had customers asking about such a pickup.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="ce8feb55-7d69-441f-a18d-605fd8f598ec" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-ce8feb55-7d69-441f-a18d-605fd8f598ec" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">He wasn’t in a rush which meant I could have a good ponder over what he’d said before making anything. </p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="27529c17-c3d5-42b9-ba23-c84ac3ad75c5" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-27529c17-c3d5-42b9-ba23-c84ac3ad75c5" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">Then one morning about a week later I was out on the beach with the dogs. There was quite a big swell (the sea is never calm at Muriwai) and I was listening to the sea. I was trying to figure out which frequencies in that sound I would need to remove to make Ramsay’s pickup. By the time I got home there was a plan.</p><p aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" class="block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text" data-block="67227091-6896-40a0-81fd-acdcf2466dbc" data-empty="false" data-title="Paragraph" data-type="core/paragraph" id="block-67227091-6896-40a0-81fd-acdcf2466dbc" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; min-width: 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;" tabindex="0">I made a set of pickups, sent them to him and a few days later he called to say they were spot on. It isn’t usually that easy.</p><figure aria-label="Block: Image" class="block-editor-block-list__block wp-block size-large wp-block-image" data-block="68f2ed11-9c05-44e9-adb6-3eaff98dd523" data-coblocks-align-support="1" data-title="Image" data-type="core/image" id="block-68f2ed11-9c05-44e9-adb6-3eaff98dd523" role="document" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 32px auto; max-width: 780px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;" tabindex="0"><div class="components-resizable-box__container" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; height: auto; max-height: 1034.7px; max-width: 1450px; min-height: 20px; min-width: 28.0275px; outline: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; user-select: auto; width: auto;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="IBM Plex Sans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/08/20/clear-view-humbucker/">https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/08/20/clear-view-humbucker/</a></span></span></div></figure>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-78541420304288109952021-10-19T09:25:00.004+13:002021-10-19T13:43:02.026+13:00“TheTron” - by Mr Glyn's Pickups<p> TheTron
pickup set is based around the legendary Gretsch pickups Of the 50’s
and 60’s. To say TheTron has character is an understatement. TheTron is
full and rounded with a well balanced mid range but with that
distinctive ‘Clank’ that separates it from other pickups. The neck
pickup is clear and fat and the bridge stands out from the mix without
ever sounding harsh.</p><div class="entry-content"><div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="TheTron by Mr Glyns Pickups" class="wp-image-4128 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4128" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-1024x765.jpg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-300x224.jpg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM.jpg" data-orig-size="2202,1644" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-am/" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-1024x765.jpg" data-srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-300x224.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-768x573.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-1536x1147.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-2048x1529.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-1200x896.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-1568x1171.jpg 1568w" height="239" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-58-16-AM-1024x765.jpg" width="320" /></figure></div><p>Over
the years I’ve repaired a fair few old Gretsch pickups and noticed the
best sounding ones are at the upper range for ohms. I’ve taken that
design and tweaked it until I got the fullness I was looking for but
without loosing clarity or clank.</p><p>Most of my pickups are made in
collaboration with a professional player, but not TheTron. I started
playing guitar at the age of 16 when I first heard Malcolm Young – a
Filtertron through an almost clean valve amp. I didn’t feel I needed
another set of ears for this one, I knew exactly what I wanted.</p><p>I
needed this pickup set to be crystal clear with a clean amplifier but to
come into its own when pushing an amp to clip. The neck pickup needed
to be clear, full and chiming in both a big archtop and in the neck
position of a Telecaster. The bridge pickup needed to have no shortage
of character, a clean almost jangly tone when played gently but with
enough go in it to push the front end of a valve amp to clip when you
dig in.</p><p>TheTron is the perfect pickup as a Gretsch upgrade, for
the modern player wanting something other than Gibson style humbuckers,
rockabilly players after that traditional tone, jazz players or, like
me, Malcolm Young fans. There’s so much you can to with The Tron.</p><p>For the modern player with one foot in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/TheTronSound.wav"></audio></figure><div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="Mr Glyn's pickups TheTron" class="wp-image-4127 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4127" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-1024x728.jpg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-300x213.jpg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM.jpg" data-orig-size="2202,1566" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-am/" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-1024x728.jpg" data-srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-300x213.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-768x546.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-1536x1092.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-2048x1456.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-1200x853.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-1568x1115.jpg 1568w" height="228" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-51-AM-1024x728.jpg" width="320" /></figure></div><p>And as for the name “TheTron”? – I think you have to be a Kiwi…</p><div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="TheTron gold foil mr glyns pickups" class="wp-image-4129 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4129" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-1024x653.jpg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-300x191.jpg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM.jpg" data-orig-size="2202,1404" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-am/" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-1024x653.jpg" data-srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-300x191.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-768x490.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-1536x979.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-2048x1306.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-1200x765.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-1568x1000.jpg 1568w" height="204" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-56-24-AM-1024x653.jpg" width="320" /></figure></div><div style="text-align: center;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="TheTron blue top Mr Glyns pickups" class="wp-image-4131 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="4131" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-1024x748.jpg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-300x219.jpg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM.jpg" data-orig-size="2202,1608" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-am/" data-sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" data-src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-1024x748.jpg" data-srcset="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-300x219.jpg 300w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-768x561.jpg 768w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-1536x1122.jpg 1536w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-2048x1496.jpg 2048w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-1200x876.jpg 1200w, https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-1568x1145.jpg 1568w" height="234" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Photo-18-10-21-11-57-28-AM-1024x748.jpg" width="320" /> </figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"> <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/">https://mrglynspickups.com/2021/09/22/thetron/</a></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"> <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/">https://mrglynspickups.com/</a></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"> </figure></div><div class="wp-block-image" style="text-align: center;"><figure class="aligncenter size-medium"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3591 lazyloaded" data-attachment-id="3591" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>Mr Glyns Pickups</p>
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Glyns Cruel Mistress hot Telecaster Pickups are designed for the Tele
player who wants more than the traditional country twang. They have a
full bottom end, cut through mids and a top end that is strong but never
harsh. They’ll push you amp that bit harder without loosing that
Telecaster character.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hssqWiZ01Rg" width="409" youtube-src-id="hssqWiZ01Rg"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <span class="embed-youtube" style="display: block; text-align: center;"></span></div></figure><p>There
is nothing like the high end snarl of a good Tele bridge pickup.
However, Tele Pickups are complicated. It’s a sound that needs to be
just right – too much treble and it can sound grating and obnoxious, too
little and it just isn’t a Tele. The treble needs warmth while still
cutting through a mix like a zombie banjo.</p><p>With the “Cruel
Mistress” -hot Tele wanted to make a pickup with a bit more power to
drive an amp harder while keeping the Tele character. My biggest concern
was not losing what a Tele is all about. In my repair work I come
across quite a few replacement Tele pickups that just don’t sound like
Teles. Bridge pickups need grit and the neck a chimey clarity and
together they should be full and open and matched well enough to create
almost a reverb sound with the switch in the middle position.</p><p>The “Cruel Mistress” -hot Tele uses AlnicoV magnets to help with the attack and AWG43 wire to help with the snarl.</p><p>The
neck pickup on a Tele needs to be smooth and warm and have a great
balance with the bridge pickup so that the middle position rings with an
almost reverb-like tone. The difficulty with Telecaster neck pickups is
there just isn’t much space under that cover. As a result it can be a
hard pickup to get right and there were a lot of experiments and
disappointments on the way. Eventually I came on a design that has
enough bottom end to sound full but not so much to sound boomy. And the
final pickup was a great match to the bridge.</p><p>I had help from the
ears of a couple of my regular customers who were generous enough to let
me load their guitars with prototypes. The whole process takes time and
only after many road tests and versions did I fix on a design. As a
result, each of my designs have been developed over many years of subtle
changes and road tests. Having help like this means my pickups are
trialed through many different amps and playing styles. The neck/bridge
balance as well as dynamics/compression need to be tested in as many
situations as possible to find a pickup that will work for most players.</p><p>So if you need some grit and aggression from your Tele this is the set for you.</p><p>There are more demos here: <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/03/29/cruel-mistress-hot-tele-pickups/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://mrglynspickups.com/2020/03/29/cruel-mistress-hot-tele-pickups/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MrGlynsPickups/videos">https://www.youtube.com/c/MrGlynsPickups/videos</a></p><p> <a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/">https://mrglynspickups.com/</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONIZiyhUUqM/X7WGeavkxMI/AAAAAAAAEnE/v3MWEELeZxM8ZfxUy_RfCx4Py9OQf2grACPcBGAYYCw/s1123/BFF30151-04A5-4873-A83B-B94F86C6800A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="794" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONIZiyhUUqM/X7WGeavkxMI/AAAAAAAAEnE/v3MWEELeZxM8ZfxUy_RfCx4Py9OQf2grACPcBGAYYCw/s320/BFF30151-04A5-4873-A83B-B94F86C6800A.jpeg" width="226" /></a></div><br /> <p></p></div></article>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.885971-69.210790836178845 139.729721 -12.590323163821154 -149.95777899999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-8639883275598072772021-07-25T15:26:00.004+12:002021-07-25T15:32:32.373+12:00"Black Sand" humbucker size P90's<p> A big thanks to Brett Kingman in Aussie for his demo of Mr Glyns "Black Sand" humbucker size P90's. I love his relaxed approach while giving us a thorough listen to what these pickups can do.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="323" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4_Ug1gNIYts" width="483" youtube-src-id="4_Ug1gNIYts"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The humbucker sized P90 is a great pickup – it sits tonally between a humbucker and and a strat type pickup. If your neck humbucker is a bit thick and woolly sounding for you, you want more clarity, or just want a different tone, then this one may be the answer. The physical size of this pickup is identical to that of a “normal” humbucker so it will pop straight in.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">P90’s are different to other single coil pickups. They have a wide, flat coil similar to that of a Jazzmaster but the magnetic field is a very different shape. Fender single coil pickups have the coil wound around the magnet giving a focused, precise percussive sound. A P90 has 2 bar magnets underneath the coil; this broadens the magnetic window allowing the pickup to listen to a bit more string and thickens the sound. I chose Alnico V bar magnets for this model to help give some grit and power characteristic of a P90.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Of course, too much power and the pickup would sound too thick and bass heavy which is not its purpose. Too little power and it just won’t snarl.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Humbucker sized P90s are such a useful pickup. They sit tonally between a single coil and a humbucker (roughly speaking). and their physical size means they pop straight into any humbucker equipped guitar.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />The development of my “Black Sand” pickup was a bit backwards. Usually I make a bridge pickup first and work from there but with this one the neck pickup came first. I had a customer ask for a neck pickup for an es335 to sound clearer than his existing Gibson humbucker. I sold a few neck pickups before thinking it would be a good idea to have a set. So I started work on the bridge pickup.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />I wanted this bridge pickup to have clarity in the lower mids to stand out from humbuckers while having enough power to grit up nicely. I wanted it to be clean when tickled and to growl at you when you dig in. P90’s are all about dynamics. It had to match the existing neck pickup or work well as a stand alone in a HSS situation.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" />Of all the pickups in my range this one came together the quickest. There were only 4 or 5 prototypes and I was happy. Experience and intuition combined with a notebook where I’ve written down details of every experimental pickup I’ve made since 1995.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">There were a load of prototypes in and out of a Les Paul, Tele Delux and PRS, through different amps and in the hands of different players. I never trust just my own ears with my pickups. I like to get opinions and suggestions from a few players before making any final decisions. I listen to what players say and I adjust prototypes accordingly, but at the end of the day the final decision is mine. I’m always aware of the phrase “a camel is a horse designed by committee”.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">It took a while to get this one right. A pickup would sound great at workshop volume, them I’d play it in a band situation and it would be too boomy, too much like a humbucker. So I’d have a think and make another. In the end persistence paid off.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The pickups I finally settled on went into my Les Paul and off to a gig for the ultimate test, and that’s where they’re staying.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The neck “Black Sand” is a great match for either my “Integrity” or “Cloud Nine” bridge humbuckers or as a set with its equivalent “Black Sand” bridge humbucker sized P90.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I agonised over what to call this pickup set. I wanted a name that would reflect the apparent contradiction in P90’s. From the perspective of a humbucker player they are clear and chiming. From the viewpoint of a single coil player they are powerful and gritty. They’re one thing while looking like another. I wanted a oxymoron to reflect this contradiction, one that might include the unique magnetic structure that gives the P90 its character. So I went for a run along Muriwai beach to think. And there it was staring me in the face (literally). Muriwai has black volcanic sand due to its iron content and it’s magnetic. So I’ve called this set “Black Sand”.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’m very happy with this pickup – hopefully you will be too.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j8MEo7p4k5o/YPzbA3TfKGI/AAAAAAAAEt0/JxRUYkNcelMgVsLSbLM0WZ6WOuMEEsu9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1453/eZy%2BWatermark-21-03-2020-01-41-54PM.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Black Sand humbucker size P90 by Mr Glyns Pickups" border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1453" height="232" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j8MEo7p4k5o/YPzbA3TfKGI/AAAAAAAAEt0/JxRUYkNcelMgVsLSbLM0WZ6WOuMEEsu9ACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h232/eZy%2BWatermark-21-03-2020-01-41-54PM.JPG" title="Mr Glyns Pickups" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONIZiyhUUqM/X7WGeavkxMI/AAAAAAAAEnE/v3MWEELeZxM8ZfxUy_RfCx4Py9OQf2grACPcBGAYYCw/s1123/BFF30151-04A5-4873-A83B-B94F86C6800A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mr Glyns Pickups "Black Sand" humbucker size P90" border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="794" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONIZiyhUUqM/X7WGeavkxMI/AAAAAAAAEnE/v3MWEELeZxM8ZfxUy_RfCx4Py9OQf2grACPcBGAYYCw/w226-h320/BFF30151-04A5-4873-A83B-B94F86C6800A.jpeg" title="Humbucker Size P90" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://mrglynspickups.com/">https://mrglynspickups.com/</a><br /><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.885971-69.210792884802416 139.729718317791 -12.590321115197579 -149.95777631779094tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-50499905140406343512021-07-23T13:25:00.005+12:002021-07-23T13:31:01.882+12:00"Cloud Nine" humbucker demo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jGdgL_fVui4" width="501" youtube-src-id="jGdgL_fVui4"></iframe></div><br /><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks to Jonathan Ho for his "Cloud Nine" humbucker demo.
Here's his channel - well worth a look:
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“Cloud Nine”-hot humbucker
The “Cloud Nine”-hot humbucker is a versatile ROCK pickup with plenty of mids, plenty of power but with enough clarity to help you stand out in the mix. A great pickup set for the Blues/Rock player but also well suited to heavier sounds , think Randy Rhodes or EVH. It with push the front end of an amp but will also clean up especially with a treble bleed.
Here’s the Cloud Nine story:
I am at heart a man of ROCK.
Since the advent of the DiMarzio Super Distortion players have been able to get some power out of their pickups, enough to really push an amp.
The neck pickup needed to be clear and present but with enough power for some of those sweet lead lines. I wanted the bridge pickup to have power to scream with the best of them while retaining enough clarity to have definition. When I play a 7th chord I want to hear it as a 7th and not sound mushy like a John Deere tractor at full throttle.
It’s a real danger with hot pickups that they lose character and tone.
I needed a crunchy rhythm with strong mids and an over the top lead sound. I want to get squawking pinched harmonics whenever I please.
Not only that but I need it it to clean up nicely and react well to a treble bleed circuit.
A humbucker for every situation, for players not afraid of a bit of gain.
Not much to ask, eh!
I got through a lot of wire and magnets experimenting over the years to get this set right. I suppose I worked on it for about 5 years, different magnets, winds, wire thickness, insulation, winds per layer – there are a lot of factors.
Whenever I felt I was close I used them at a gig to hear how they sat in the band.
Pickups can sound quite different next to a drummer or in a mix.
I tweaked and adjusted…Eventually I was happy with the design and I was lucky enough to have legendary Kiwi band ‘Head Like A Hole’ help out with road testing. I knew if they came back from tour happy then I was on to a winner.
They did.
When you get it right it feels so good, a sensitive pickup rich in harmonics is so much fun so I called it the “Cloud Nine” which how I felt at the end of it all.
This is the pickup set I gig with myself in my covers band now. I have them in an Epiphone Sheraton with treble bleeds on the volume pots. With this set up it works for everything from The Smiths to Metallica and all points in between.
I don’t feel the need to swap guitar – these pickups work for everything.
</span></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONIZiyhUUqM/X7WGeavkxMI/AAAAAAAAEnE/v3MWEELeZxM8ZfxUy_RfCx4Py9OQf2grACPcBGAYYCw/s1123/BFF30151-04A5-4873-A83B-B94F86C6800A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="794" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONIZiyhUUqM/X7WGeavkxMI/AAAAAAAAEnE/v3MWEELeZxM8ZfxUy_RfCx4Py9OQf2grACPcBGAYYCw/w226-h320/BFF30151-04A5-4873-A83B-B94F86C6800A.jpeg" width="226" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.885971-69.210790836178845 139.729721 -12.590323163821154 -149.95777899999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-63554612171843523212021-07-21T19:50:00.007+12:002021-07-21T19:54:36.922+12:00"Sassy" P90 set<p> <span face=""IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 20px;">The Mr Glyn’s “Sassy” P90 is a pickup set influenced by the Gibson P90’s of the late 50’s. The “Sassy” have a distinctive woody aggressive tone, full of character. The highs are smooth yet punchy, there’s a chiming bottom end and a very obvious mid range that pushes through the mix. If you tickle the strings they’re clean and clear but dig in and there’s no shortage of power to drive the front end of your amp.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;"><span face="IBM Plex Sans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" style="color: #181818;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eKuwd5UmyrQ" width="483" youtube-src-id="eKuwd5UmyrQ"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’ve grown to love P90’s over the years, it’s the sound of those early Gibson Les Paul Juniors. It’s a pickup that needs no extras, just straight into a good amp. They’re happy to power pedals but there’s a fullness and balance that seems to need nothing else.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I wanted the “Sassy” P90 set to live up to its name and have the dynamic range that I love about P90’s. The wide flat coil of a P90 gives a richer, less percussive tone than other single coil pickups and this is where the full tone comes from. I’ve sat both neck and bridge pickups on top of a pair of Alnico V magnets to give the power this pickup needs and help add that bit of grit when played hard.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’ve made the neck pickup smooth and fat but with clarity and chime enough for jazz. The bridge pickup has the dynamics, pushy mids and aggressive highs when pushed but cleans up when you ask it to.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">This is a pickup set that would be happy in almost any situation, blues, rock, punk, reggae… If it’s a full bodied, dynamic P90 you’re after look no further.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The Sassy is available in Dogear and Soapbar.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I’ve named this set the “Sassy” P90 set to reflect these pickup’s attitude, they’re bold, spicy, disrespectful and a bit cheeky.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K5_2ZXXj0o0/YPfRCSjNqxI/AAAAAAAAEtQ/Ed_ym6zyKTg7UN1ZGhg-O76QRE3yJcYJQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K5_2ZXXj0o0/YPfRCSjNqxI/AAAAAAAAEtQ/Ed_ym6zyKTg7UN1ZGhg-O76QRE3yJcYJQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.885971-69.210790836178845 139.729721 -12.590323163821154 -149.95777899999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-82941052879828512822021-07-04T19:31:00.000+12:002021-07-04T19:31:13.905+12:00“Cloud Nine”-hot humbucker<p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="422" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aRXJzUGyglY?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://mrglynspickups.com" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="BETTER Than A FENDER CUSTOMSHOP Stratocaster??" width="750"></iframe></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pi8szTOQAL0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="750"></iframe></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; max-width: unset;">“Cloud Nine”-hot humbucker</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The “Cloud Nine”-hot humbucker is a versatile ROCK pickup with plenty of mids, plenty of power but with enough clarity to help you stand out in the mix.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I am at heart a man of ROCK.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Since the advent of the DiMarzio Super Distortion players have been able to get some power out of their pickups, enough to really push an amp.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The neck pickup needed to be clear and present but with enough power for some of those sweet lead lines. I wanted the bridge pickup to have power to scream with the best of them while retaining enough clarity to have definition. When I play a 7th chord I want to hear it as a 7th and not sound mushy like a John Deere tractor at full throttle. It’s a real danger with hot pickups that they lose character and tone. I needed a crunchy rhythm with strong mids and an over the top lead sound. I want to get squawking pinched harmonics whenever I please. Not only that but I need it it to clean up nicely and react well to a treble bleed circuit. A humbucker for every situation, for players not afraid of a bit of gain.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Not much to ask, eh!</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I got through a lot of wire and magnets experimenting over the years to get this set right. I suppose I worked on it for about 5 years, different magnets, winds, wire thickness, insulation, winds per layer – there are a lot of factors. Whenever I felt I was close I used them at a gig to hear how they sat in the band. Pickups can sound quite different next to a drummer or in a mix. I tweaked and adjusted…</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Eventually I was happy with the design and I was lucky enough to have legendary Kiwi band ‘Head Like A Hole’ help out with road testing. I knew if they came back from tour happy then I was on to a winner. They did.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">When you get it right it feels so good, a sensitive pickup rich in harmonics is so much fun so I called it the “Cloud Nine” which how I felt at the end of it all.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">This is the pickup set I gig with myself in my covers band now. I have them in an Epiphone Sheraton with treble bleeds on the volume pots. With this set up it works for everything from The Smiths to Metallica and all points in between. I don’t feel the need to swap guitar – these pickups work for everything.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Here are some sound samples recorded clean through a Fender Princeton Reverb-Amp. The overdrive sounds are using an Electroharmonix Soul Food. The guitar is a ’98 Les Paul Std with D’Addario 10-52’s. All of them with the same guitar, same amp, same settings, no reverb or eq added later.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cloudnine-neck-clean-1.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Neck Pickup Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cloudnine-bridge-clean.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Bridge Pickup Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cloudenine-mid-clean.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Middle Position Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cloudnine-neck-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Neck Pickup with Overdrive<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cloudnine-bridge-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Bridge Pickup with Overdrive<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cloudnine-mid-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Middle Position with Overdrive</figcaption></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Mr Glyn's Cloud Nine humbucker" class="wp-image-159" data-attachment-id="159" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPad Air","caption":"Processed with Focos","created_timestamp":"1582462325","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.3","iso":"160","shutter_speed":"0.04","title":"Processed with Focos","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Attitude 6 string" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/553be30d-7e6e-4bf8-8a56-dfd295ecbeef.jpeg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/553be30d-7e6e-4bf8-8a56-dfd295ecbeef.jpeg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/553be30d-7e6e-4bf8-8a56-dfd295ecbeef.jpeg" data-orig-size="1600,1115" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/processed-with-focos-8/" height="1115" loading="lazy" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/553be30d-7e6e-4bf8-8a56-dfd295ecbeef.jpeg?w=1024" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1600" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; font-size: 0.69444rem; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: calc(8px); max-width: unset;">Cloud Nine humbucker</figcaption></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MrGlynsPickups/videos" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;">https://www.youtube.com/c/MrGlynsPickups/videos</a></p>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.885971-69.210790836178845 139.729721 -12.590323163821154 -149.95777899999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-1228208210319947082021-07-04T19:06:00.000+12:002021-07-04T19:06:06.254+12:00“Cruel Mistress” -hot Tele Pickup set<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Here’s a great demo from Brett Kingman.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pnzVJurz7Pk?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="750"></iframe></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bl-0aeHbauk?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="750"></iframe></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0eGg-VHZf1M?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="750"></iframe></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DP8LCIczGys?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="750"></iframe></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">There is nothing like the high end snarl of a good Tele bridge pickup. However, Tele Pickups are complicated. It’s a sound that needs to be just right – too much treble and it can sound grating and obnoxious, too little and it just isn’t a Tele. The treble needs warmth while still cutting through a mix like a zombie banjo.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">With the “Cruel Mistress” -hot Tele wanted to make a pickup with a bit more power to drive an amp harder while keeping the Tele character. My biggest concern was not losing what a Tele is all about. In my repair work I come across quite a few replacement Tele pickups that just don’t sound like Teles. Bridge pickups need grit and the neck a chimey clarity and together they should be full and open and matched well enough to create almost a reverb sound with the switch in the middle position.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The “Cruel Mistress” -hot Tele uses AlnicoV magnets to help with the attack and AWG43 wire to help with the snarl.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The neck pickup on a Tele needs to be smooth and warm and have a great balance with the bridge pickup so that the middle position rings with an almost reverb-like tone. The difficulty with Telecaster neck pickups is there just isn’t much space under that cover. As a result it can be a hard pickup to get right and there were a lot of experiments and disappointments on the way. Eventually I came on a design that has enough bottom end to sound full but not so much to sound boomy. And the final pickup was a great match to the bridge.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I had help from the ears of a couple of my regular customers who were generous enough to let me load their guitars with prototypes. The whole process takes time and only after many road tests and versions did I fix on a design. As a result, each of my designs have been developed over many years of subtle changes and road tests. Having help like this means my pickups are trialed through many different amps and playing styles. The neck/bridge balance as well as dynamics/compression need to be tested in as many situations as possible to find a pickup that will work for most players.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">So if you need some grit and aggression from your Tele this is the set for you.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Here are some sound samples recorded clean through a Fender Princeton Reverb-Amp with a swamp ash body, maple neck Tele with D’Addario 10-52’s.The overdrive is an Elecroharmonix Soul Food pedal. All of them with the same guitar, same amp, same settings, no reverb or eq added later.</p><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cruel-mistress-neck-clean-1.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Cruel Mistress Neck Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cruel-mistress-bridge-clean-1.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Cruel Mistress Bridge Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cruel-mistress-mid-clean-1.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Cruel Mistress Middle Position Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cruel-mistress-neck-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Cruel Mistress Neck Pickup with Overdrive<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cruel-mistress-bridge-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Cruel Mistress Bridge Pickup with Overdrive<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cruel-mistress-mid-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Cruel Mistress Middle Position with Overdrive<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Mr Glyns “Cruel Mistress” -hot Tele neck pickup
" class="wp-image-180" data-attachment-id="180" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPad Air","caption":"Processed with Focos","created_timestamp":"1584795677","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.3","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.04","title":"Processed with Focos","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Processed with Focos" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bc9ad191-5b4d-40ed-afc6-98e90d39541e.jpeg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bc9ad191-5b4d-40ed-afc6-98e90d39541e.jpeg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bc9ad191-5b4d-40ed-afc6-98e90d39541e.jpeg" data-orig-size="1444,871" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/processed-with-focos-16/" height="871" loading="lazy" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bc9ad191-5b4d-40ed-afc6-98e90d39541e.jpeg" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1444" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; font-size: 0.69444rem; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: calc(8px); max-width: unset;">“Cruel Mistress” -hot Tele</figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Mr Glyns “Cruel Mistress” -hot Tele bridge pickup
" class="wp-image-179" data-attachment-id="179" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPad Air","caption":"Processed with Focos","created_timestamp":"1584795763","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.3","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.03030303030303","title":"Processed with Focos","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Processed with Focos" data-large-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/95e58325-d1a4-411f-9a81-29be661c6d6e.jpeg" data-medium-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/95e58325-d1a4-411f-9a81-29be661c6d6e.jpeg" data-orig-file="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/95e58325-d1a4-411f-9a81-29be661c6d6e.jpeg" data-orig-size="1421,940" data-permalink="https://mrglynspickups.com/processed-with-focos-15/" height="940" loading="lazy" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/95e58325-d1a4-411f-9a81-29be661c6d6e.jpeg" style="border-radius: inherit; border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1421" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; font-size: 0.69444rem; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: calc(8px); max-width: unset;">Tele Pickups – Cruel Mistress Bridge</figcaption></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDggiRTQyFec5KAVHsC2xA" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #897248; cursor: pointer; max-width: unset;">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDggiRTQyFec5KAVHsC2xA</a></p>Glyn Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13068796328878961627noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.885971-69.210790836178845 139.729721 -12.590323163821154 -149.95777899999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431032825363058484.post-67827725572729818602021-06-29T20:09:00.002+12:002021-06-29T20:12:32.537+12:00Integrity vintage humbucker set - Mr Glyns Pickups<p> </p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; max-width: unset; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" height="422" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jG9PZuoNqNE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="750"></iframe></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; max-width: unset;">“Integrity”-vintage humbucker</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The “Integrity”-vintage humbucker is a low powered Alnico II humbucker in the style of the early PAF’s.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Every pickup manufacturer makes a “Vintage” humbucker based on the Gibson PAF, of course they do – old Gibsons sound so good.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">So how come they all sound so different? Well, the simple answer is that PAF’s were all different. I’ve been a full time luthier since 1995, whenever I come across an old humbucker I test the ohms and the gause and have a good listen. They’re all different. My conclusion is that pickup manufacturers have taken the PAF they like and based their own version on that. Old PAF’s vary so much so modern ones do as well.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I like my own version to be clear sounding, have obvious string separation and definition and to keep clarity no matter how much gain. The mids must be strong and woody, this is not a “scooped” pickup. The clean sound needs to be chimey and clear with no mush; through a valve amp I want clarity. When I tickle it I want clean and vocal sounding when it clips. The bridge pickup needs to be well behaved with high gain and clear with enough cut through so the drummer knows you’re there. The neck smooth, clear and articulate. Warm but with none of the boom you get with a more powerful pickup.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I don’t want much do I.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">My “Vintage” Humbucker has an Alnico II magnet and I’ve used plain enamel insulated magnet wire with asymmetric coils to open up the mids. The very first pickup I ever made back in 1995 was a PAF style and I’ve been tweaking the recipe ever since. Like all my pickups I’ve used a number of test pilot players in its development as well as gigging it myself. It wasn’t until around 2015 that I settled on this particular design. I did a gig with a set in a PRS SE series only last weekend – sounded great to me.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The full and honest sound of this pickup along with it’s timeless tone inspired the name “Integrity”.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Is pickup was originally called the “Blue Sky”.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Here are some sound samples recorded clean through a Fender Princeton Reverb-Amp. The overdrive sounds are using an Electroharmonix Soul Food. The guitar is a ’98 Les Paul Std with D’Addario 10-52’s. All of them with the same guitar, same amp, same settings, no reverb or eq added later.</p><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bluesky-neck-clean.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Neck Pickup Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bluesky-bridge-clean.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Bridge Pickup Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bluesky-mid-clean.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Middle Position Clean<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bluesky-neck-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Neck Pickup with Overdrive<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bluesky-bridge-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Bridge Pickup with Overdrive<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-audio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); min-width: inherit; padding: 0px;"><audio controls="" src="https://mrglynspickups.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bluesky-mid-od.wav" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset; min-width: 300px; width: 750px;"></audio><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; max-width: unset; text-align: center;">Middle Position with Overdrive<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: unset;" /></figcaption></figure><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The ‘Integrity’ used to be called the ‘Blue Sky’</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181818; font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 32px auto; max-width: calc(750px); padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-163" data-attachment-id="163" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="<p>A vintage voiced humbucker based on the best of the early PAF’s</p>
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