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  • Ibanez JS1000/JS1200 Review

    This guitar was the white 540P featured on the covers of Satriani's first albums. Hardware Color: Cosmo Black (for JS1200: Chrome) Tuning Machines: Gotoh Nut Width: 42 mm Last Fret Width: 58

  • Dimarzio Air Norton DP193 as a Bridge Humbucker Review

    Try it with 500K pots for maximum treble and harmonic presence. Anyway, here comes the measurement part Dimarzio Air Norton (DP193) Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: Output: 270 Milivolts (advertised) EQ (B/M/T) – 6.5/7/5 (old catalogs) – 6/6/6/5.5 (official website I’ll list some of my favourite mid output birdge pickups; S.Duncan PATB-3 (w/ alnico 4 magnet) : 5.84H Dimarzio Virtual Hot PAF : 5.47H S.Duncan Seth Lover B: 5.66H Ibanez V7 (modded): 5.62H Air Norton:

  • Dimarzio LiquiFire Review (DP227)

    Jackson Floyd Rose tremolo with Japanese stainless steel saddles, 25,5” scale, nickel silver frets, Alpha 500K Dimarzio LiquiFire DP227 Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 10,75 K Ohm   (Series) Measured DCR: 10,87 K Ohm (Series) Measured DCR: 5,55 K Ohm (Screw Coil) Measured DCR: 5,29 K Ohm (Slug Coil) Inductance @100Hz : 2,71 H (Screw Coil) Inductance @100Hz : 2,71 H (Slug Coil) Measured C:  -27 nF (Series)/ -50nF ) – 5/6,5/6,5/4 (official website) Gauss: 220G slug, 200G screw (measured at top center of pole pieces

  • Dimarzio Norton Review DP160

    Let's read my measuremens here; Dimarzio Norton DP160 Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 12.62 K Ohm ( In my Custom 5 review, I mentioned that a reading of 400G was the highest I had measured so far. 5-loaded powerful humbuckers. For instance, in my opinion, the Custom 5 is much tighter. 2 Pro, Jazz or even alnico 4 modded ’59 from Seymour Duncan.

  • Dimarzio PAF Pro DP151 Review

    Let’s read the mambo jambo first; Dimarzio PAF Pro DP151 Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 8,4K Ohm (Screw Coil) / -59,4nF (Slug Coil) Output: 300 Milivolts (advertised) EQ (T/M/B) – 6/5/5 (old advertised Let’s saaay, hmm, Duncan ’59 is phenomenal humbucker but it picks guitars. tone pickups; german nickel silver base plate, plain enamel wire, buthyrate bobbins, vintage occurate alnico 5 alloys etc are all but a must.

  • Interview with Padraig Corrigan of Corrigan Pickups

    It’s an 18K AlNiCo 8 and Ceramic 8 powerhouse, and even though we market it as an extreme output monster was the first humbucker I had made that I was truly happy with and could easily replicate, I wanted a AlNiCo split, in a custom colour, and a myriad of other wild specs built in less than a month for less than $500

  • Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary Review DP223

    …And, my measuremens are here; Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 0.3967 Inductance @100Hz : 2.39 H (Screw Coil) Inductance @100Hz : 2.39 H (Slug Coil) Measured C:  157. 5 ) – 6/6.5/5 (old catalog data) 4/5.5/5.5/4 (official website) Gauss: 270G screw, 240G slug (measured Thanks to DiMarzio’s Airbucker technique, even though the pickup contains a long Alnico 5 magnet, the flux density I measured at the center of the pickup reads closer to Alnico 2 levels.

  • Dimarzio Al DiMeola Neck (DP201) Review

    Both pickups had lower windings, lower output, and alnico 5 magnets, but I’ll mention the nerdy stuff maple neck in a chunky Endur-Neck profile, a two-point steel tremolo, 25.5” scale, steel frets, Bourns 500K Dimarzio DP201 Al DiMeola Neck Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 10,87 K Ohm (Series) Measured DCR:

  • Seymour Duncan Parallel Axis Trembucker 3 (PATB-3) Review

    ; Blues Saraceno with his plaid guitar Seymour Duncan Parallel Axis Trembucker -3 (PATB-3) Magnet – Alnico 5 Advertised DCR: 9K Ohm (now- several years ago it was 9.8K Ohm) (Series) Measured DCR: 9.1160 K Ohm Series) Measured DCR: 4.47 K Ohm (Screw Coil) Measured DCR: 4.66 K Ohm (Slug Coil) Inductance@100Hz: 5.6602H Inductance@100Hz: 2.45H (Slug Coil) Resonance Peak : 6.00KHz (advertised) Calculated Self Resonance Peak: 5.2280 Basses are tight, clear and pronounced thanks to alnico 5.

  • Exclusive Interview with Seymour W. Duncan – Pickup Design, Tone Philosophy & Legacy

    It is a ’59, isn’t it? Player magazine, Joe recorded his great album Surfing with the Alien on a Kramer Pacer that had a ’59 You’ll get an alternative sound using other than standard magnets like Alnico 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, etc. I like using traditional Alnico magnets for the tone I enjoy. We do experimentation with all kinds of rare earth magnets and I always come back to the Alnico’s for

  • Seymour Duncan Full Shred Review – Specs, Tone & Custom 5 Comparison

    The shorter Allen head poles and Alnico 5 bar magnet bring a nice crisp clarity to the high end, while This pickup also uses an Alnico 5 bar magnet and short Allen screw poles to create a tighter, brighter Despite using an Alnico 5 magnet, I measured an average magnetic flux density of around 300 gauss on 5 implementation. A ~14 kΩ DC resistance, nearly 8 henries of inductance, and moderate Alnico 5 gauss readings are not

  • Harley Benton TE-62DB LPB Review

    rod Fretboard radius: 305 mm (12") Nut width: 42 mm Scale: 648 mm (25,5") 21 Frets Pickups: 2 Roswell Alnico 5 TEA-F-CR/TEA-B single coils 1 Volume and 1 tone control 3-Way switch 3-Ply white pickguard Hardtail Neck: DCR: 5,62K  L:1,28H   C: -32,3nF Bridge: DCR: 7,77K   L: 3,68H   C: -35,6nF Roswell is a company If I had a Lollar '52 T or Lindy Fralin Vintage Hot or Seymour Duncan Jerry Donahue Lead Tele, or at

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