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Post subject: What kind of pickups are good for screaming feedback
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 11:51 am
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I'm looking for some single coil pickups that are good for producing high squeals for making crazy sounds. any suggestions

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Post subject: Re: What kind of pickups are good for screaming feedback
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:17 pm
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DEAD ZeBRA wrote:
I'm looking for some single coil pickups that are good for producing high squeals for making crazy sounds. any suggestions


The word for this is, microphonic.

You'd have to find ones where the coil wasn't wax saturated. Or, some that were lightly dipped in wax but not saturated. Nowadays, most pickups' coils are wax saturated or at least, dipped. Years ago, this was not always the case. So, you either have to start looking for older pickups or certain vintage reissue pickups where the specs do not call for the wax. As a last resort, you can try installing some seriously abused pickups and hope that the wax was disturbed somehow to where the coil and/or some of the pickup's components were worked loose.

See, wax saturation solidifies the coil and if done with the rest of the pickup, it will solidify the pickup's components as a whole too. If especially the coil isn't solidified, it can easily vibrate which in turn produces all those whacky sounds you're after (aka a monophonic pickup). Loose components to a lesser extent can contribute to these sounds too.

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Post subject: Re: What kind of pickups are good for screaming feedback
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 1:17 pm
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Martian wrote:
DEAD ZeBRA wrote:
I'm looking for some single coil pickups that are good for producing high squeals for making crazy sounds. any suggestions


The word for this is, monophonic.

You'd have to find ones where the coil wasn't wax saturated.


I believe the word you wanted was "microphonic" not "monophonic."

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Post subject: Re: What kind of pickups are good for screaming feedback
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 1:48 pm
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orvilleowner wrote:
Martian wrote:
DEAD ZeBRA wrote:
I'm looking for some single coil pickups that are good for producing high squeals for making crazy sounds. any suggestions


The word for this is, monophonic.

You'd have to find ones where the coil wasn't wax saturated.


I believe the word you wanted was "microphonic" not "monophonic."


Wow, talk about a, "brain fart"! Thank you for catching that!

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Post subject: Re: What kind of pickups are good for screaming feedback
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 3:34 pm
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Martian wrote:
orvilleowner wrote:
I believe the word you wanted was "microphonic" not "monophonic."


Wow, talk about a, "brain fart"! Thank you for catching that!


I do that too. :lol:

Sometimes it's hard to knock the right word out of the old brain.

Still, I wouldn't recommend microphonic pickups on my worst enemy! :lol:

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Post subject: Re: What kind of pickups are good for screaming feedback
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:41 am
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I'm looking for some single coil pickups that are good for producing high squeals for making crazy sounds. any suggestions


Fender Hot Noiseless (like Jeff Beck uses). 8)

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I always thought that noiseless pickups were designed to reduce or eliminate screaming feedback.

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I saw an old guitar in a pawn shop recently that looked like it could have been home-made... the pickup selectors for the two pickups were rocker switches labeled "microphone one" and "microphone two"...I'd like to think there was some squawking garage proto-punk in its past somewhere...


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