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magillver
Tone Member
- Jun 2020
- 164
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Quarter Pounder Humbucker?
Hi there! The title pretty much says it all, is there such a beast as a Quarter Pounder humbucker? I was looking at a Taylor solid body at my local guitar shop, with an HSS configuration, and all 3 pickups looked a lot like quarter pounders:
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They do look like Quarter Pounds, but they are actually Taylor made pups. From Taylor: "The humbucker is the High Gain (HG) version, which is slightly darker-sounding with a crunchier tone."
Cool guitar though. It's the SB-1X HSS.
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Mincer
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- Tampa Bay area, Florida, USA
- Mar 2004
- 40330
#3
It certainly looks like they took the look of the Quarter Pounder from Seymour Duncan. I think I remember reading about a stacked Quarter Pound from the Custom Shop.
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PicoRiveraTele
Ultimate Tone Member
- Mar 2017
- 404
#4
Quarter Pounds don't have machining holes on the sides.
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superpete
Toneologist
- May 2004
- 962
#5
Some Anderson humbuckers have that look as well
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Clint 55
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- Santa Fe
- Aug 2016
- 17916
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Yes. Stick 2 QPs in a hum slot and wire them in series. It's a waste of string pull in the bridge position imo tho. I do use a myth set in series in the neck in a mustang as a mustang humbucker because Duncan would NOT wind me a real one. I've had a homemade strat stag mag that I want to revisit and want to try a jaguar one.
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PicoRiveraTele
Ultimate Tone Member
- Mar 2017
- 404
#7
Originally posted by Clint 55View Post
Yes. Stick 2 QPs in a hum slot and wire them in series. It's a waste of string pull in the bridge position imo tho. I do use a myth set in series in the neck in a mustang as a mustang humbucker because Duncan would NOT wind me a real one. I've had a homemade strat stag mag that I want to revisit and want to try a jaguar one.
Wiring them in series would make a muddy pickup, parallel would be more usable. Even better yet, re-magnetize the poles pieces of one of the pickups in reverse polarity so that it can humbuck.
String pull isn't much of an issue in the bridge position, it has a lot more consequence the further the pickup is towards the center of the strings, because the strings are stiffer at the ends.
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Mincer
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- Tampa Bay area, Florida, USA
- Mar 2004
- 40330
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I couldn't speculate how such a pickup would sound, but if someone has 2 QPs, I'd love to hear about the experiment. I would suspect series would be unusable and thick, but parallel could work well.
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beaubrummels
Mojo's Minions
- The dude abides
- Jul 2012
- 15097
#9
Just have Custom Shop make a Trembucker Stag Mag out of QP coils, but wind them so series coils isn't worse than the Invader.
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Clint 55
OH THE DOUBLE THICK GLAZE!
- Santa Fe
- Aug 2016
- 17916
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Originally posted by MincerView Post
I couldn't speculate how such a pickup would sound, but if someone has 2 QPs, I'd love to hear about the experiment. I would suspect series would be unusable and thick, but parallel could work well.
It actually works lol! To be fair it was a qp and custom strat I used but it was still a beastly 26k worth of pickup. The benefit is you still hear the qualities of the parent pups such as the qp's characteristic metallic mids which I love. It's just boosted like crazy and more compressed. Still plenty usable tho and even sounds good imo if you like hot pickups.
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eclecticsynergy
Mojo's Minions
- NY
- Jun 2014
- 6927
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Originally posted by superpeteView Post
Some Anderson humbuckers have that look as well
Yah, the Anderson humbuckers are like that and I believe they use actual rod mags like a QP - great definition and they split famously well.
The H2+ is pretty popular as a medium-hot bridge pickup and the H3 is even stronger. I have an H2 which is more of a vintage-plus output.I've seen cheap Chinese pickups that have a similar look, but using steel slugs with a ceramic magnet underneath.
Dragonfire Phat Screamers are like that.Also have a RioGrande "Tallbreed" dual-Strat-coil hybrid: one Tallboy and one Halfbreed together on a baseplate.
Fairly nice pickup - big, punchy and loud. In series it isn't as dark as you might expect.
I think the tightly focused field of the magpoles helps keep it detailed, though it can get a bit mushy with tons of gain.
(These not the quarter-inch rod mags; they're extra long but standard diameter.).
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