| Author | Message | ||
| Hidehiro Tsubakihara (bassstar)
New Username: bassstar Post Number: 8 Registered: 6-2002 |
What difference these have, AXY pickup ,MXY pickups and SC pickup ? There are all single coil? There are noe same sound? Please let me know. | ||
| Mica Wickersham (mica)
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 101 Registered: 6-2000 |
SC is the single coil pickup found in the Series I and Series II basses and guitars. These only work with the Series I and II electronics. The AXY came next. This was made in the same potting shell as the SC pickups, even though the magnetic core of these humcancelling pickups is half the size of the SC magnetic core. The MXY was made to fit the coil from an AXY in the smallest possible casing. Since many of our bass designs were smaller and smaller, the big AXY pickups didn't look right, and they didn't have to be that big. Imagine an Essence with AXY pickups! The FatBoy pickup we use on the Excel bass (and on custom orders) uses the SC magnetic core wound as a self humcancelling pickup. A regular AXY and MXY will have no sonic difference. The wider aperture FatBoy AXY will have a bigger, broader sound due to the fact that the magnetic core is wider and looks at a bigger portion of the string. The SC pickups sound, well, the best, what can I say? They are our top of the line, and they sound like it. | ||
| Michael Walker (rockandroller)
New Username: rockandroller Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2002 |
here's another pickup question... I have plans to order a bass next year, but dont have a clue what the different electronics actualy sound like to play through (SERIES vs the humbuck type, for example). (I have no way of trying any Alembics out in person before I buy, so you will probably be hearing lots of questions from me over the next month or two.) Anyway, yesterday I saw an Alembic pickup on eBay and bought it. I think its an older aftermarket one, maybe late 80s?? Since I will get to experiment with this pickup soon, (hopefully in a few different instruments if I can swing it) I was wondering if you can tell me if its essentially "the same" pickup or preamp as any of the ones I will have available to choose from next spring. I am guessing its a high impedance humbucker with a volume control, and a "filter" control? here is a picture, i'd be very pleased if you can ID it for me, THANKS!!    |
