Jalen Pickups
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Re: Jalen Pickups
So, I rummaged through my box of pickups and I have a collection of A5 magnets, Ceramic, A2, but no A8.
A2 have a blue dot painted on one end
A3 have a green dot painted on one end
A4 have a yellow dot painted on one end
A5 have a red dot painted on one end
A8 have a white dot painted on one end
A2 have a blue dot painted on one end
A3 have a green dot painted on one end
A4 have a yellow dot painted on one end
A5 have a red dot painted on one end
A8 have a white dot painted on one end
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Re: Jalen Pickups
Ordered a rough-cast Alnico 8 magnet to swap out the Alnico 2 in my Floyd equipped guitar with asymmetric-wind humbucker.
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That's cool pay attention to the ploarity of the old one to make sure you have the new magnet oriented with the N/S plority is the same. Usually they mark new magnets but you need to know how the old one has been oriented. You can ask the High Order guy since you have a good relationship with him. I'm sure there are some vids on YT somewhere explaining this.
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Yeah, he said the polarity can be sensed by a compass, which I have.harddriver wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 3:29 pm That's cool pay attention to the ploarity of the old one to make sure you have the new magnet oriented with the N/S plority is the same. Usually they mark new magnets but you need to know how the old one has been oriented. You can ask the High Order guy since you have a good relationship with him. I'm sure there are some vids on YT somewhere explaining this.
Jeff is on all the gear forums (including this one ) as "Winder".
The A8 magnet was $10 shipped, so it's an inexpensive experiment. I have a theory that it's less about the DC resistance of the pickup and more about the balance (or imbalance) of the coils and the resonant peak as far as the "character" of the pickup.
Example: my Super 70 measures 8.1kΩ, and the pickup I'm doing the magnet swap in measures 8.7kΩ ..
The difference between the two, plugged into the exact same signal chain is like night and day.
Jeff told me that swapping in an A8 mag will probably result in a slightly higher output than my Super 70 pickup.
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Jeff was on our old, small Google group called the ABC List (amp board conservatives) back in the day.
Jeff wound me a pair of "Lizardbuckers" which were excellent
You should invite him over here if he's interested.
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BTW, if you VH heads haven't tried the SH-5 Custom for 1st album tones, do so now before trying anything else.
SH-5 = "PAF on steroids" as the old ad said.
I bought the 1979 October edition of Guitar Player with the infamous Seymour Duncan Research Laboratory ad that Ed got pissed off about.
This pickup has actual provenance - it was tied to Van Halen's name, if only briefly:
Jeff wound me a pair of "Lizardbuckers" which were excellent
You should invite him over here if he's interested.
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BTW, if you VH heads haven't tried the SH-5 Custom for 1st album tones, do so now before trying anything else.
SH-5 = "PAF on steroids" as the old ad said.
I bought the 1979 October edition of Guitar Player with the infamous Seymour Duncan Research Laboratory ad that Ed got pissed off about.
This pickup has actual provenance - it was tied to Van Halen's name, if only briefly:
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Yeah, I just looked and you're correct.lll wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 3:42 pm Jeff was on our old, small Google group called the ABC List (amp board conservatives) back in the day.
Jeff wound me a pair of "Lizardbuckers" which were excellent
You should invite him over here if he's interested.
BTW, if you VH heads haven't tried the SH-5 Custom for 1st album tones, do so now before trying anything else.
I thought he was on here.
What's the LizardBucker ?
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Clone set of the SD Seth Lover set. A2 PAFsPLX wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 3:52 pmYeah, I just looked and you're correct.lll wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 3:42 pm Jeff was on our old, small Google group called the ABC List (amp board conservatives) back in the day.
Jeff wound me a pair of "Lizardbuckers" which were excellent
You should invite him over here if he's interested.
BTW, if you VH heads haven't tried the SH-5 Custom for 1st album tones, do so now before trying anything else.
I thought he was on here.
What's the LizardBucker ?
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Re: Jalen Pickups
Ahh, ok.
Yeah I have tried (and still have):
Duncan '59
Duncan Custom-Custom
Duncan Custom
and I built the "Hybrid" by taking apart and re-assembling a coil from the Custom and a coil from the '59
Was looking at all of those yesterday while rummaging through my box of old pickups.
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PLX if you didn't like that pickup with an A-5 you probably won't like it with the A-8 but it's worth the experiment if you want to hear it.
I just noticed in that ad that Seymour already had a Duncan Distortion pickup at that time. What's the year on that ad? 1979/1980?
I always heard the JB was his first high output offering then the Seymourizer then the Seymourizer II then the Custom and Distortion followed.
OH I see the date October 1979 for that ad...........
I just noticed in that ad that Seymour already had a Duncan Distortion pickup at that time. What's the year on that ad? 1979/1980?
I always heard the JB was his first high output offering then the Seymourizer then the Seymourizer II then the Custom and Distortion followed.
OH I see the date October 1979 for that ad...........
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I love this pickupharddriver wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 4:03 pm PLX if you didn't like that pickup with an A-5 you probably won't like it with the A-8 but it's worth the experiment if you want to hear it.
I played the Duncan "hybrid" pcikup for years when I was playing in my old cover band "Five And A Half Inch Nails"
After that, I had Jeff build me one of his "brownsound' pickups, and I asked for the A2 magnet because I was playing thru a modeling amp back then.
It just sounds weak now compared to the Super 70.. not to mention I'm now playing thru a whole different rig.
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