Post by antigua on Sept 25, 2016 18:37:30 GMT -5
www.lollarguitars.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LGP&Product_Code=209
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These sound like a good cross between a hot and a vintage output pickup, to my ears. They're not quite as overbearing as some can be, but they're still pretty bold sounding for Strat pickups. IMO, pickups in this output range have great clean notch positions, but work better with overdrive otherwise. These would be my first choice for pickups in the output range, but I removed them because I'm going to lower output pickups, such as the Lollar Blondes and Tweeds, which I have in other guitars right now.
Lollar Black Face Bridge
DC R: 7.03K
L: 2.800 H
Q: 2.408
Peak: 9.26 kHz
Calculated C: 86pF (106-20)
Coil width: 0.61" (with cloth tape)
Lollar Black Face Middle
DC R: 7.00K
L: 2.650H
Q: 2.286
Peak: 9.16 kHz
Calculated C: 94pF (114-20)
Coil width: 0.61" (with cloth tape)
Lollar Black Face Neck
DC R: 6.70K
L: 2.532H
Q: 2.296
Peak: 9.37 kHz
Calculated C: 94pF (114-20)
Coil width: 0.595" (with cloth tape)
These pickups feature flat poles. Lollar prefers flat poles and upcharges $10 for staggered pole pieces. The gauss reads 900 - 1000, lower than usual for AlNiCo 5, partly due to their smaller overall size, seeing as there is no stagger. The shortest A5 pole typically reads 950-1000 gauss, while the tallest read 1050 - 1150, and these are a little weaker than the typical shortest pole pieces. IME, you don't really hear much of a difference unless the difference is fairly big, though.
The cloth tape appears to be about 0.0175 thick, and double layered all the way around, so I'd estimate with the cloth removed, the coils would closer to 0.52" - 0.54".
No load:
With load:
I was really curious to see how these compared to the ML Standards, and I did an analysis on those already www.strat-talk.com/threads/suhr-ml-standard-analysis-and-review.401092/ . There is an interesting difference in the specs; the ML Standards had a higher resonant peak without load, but a lower resonant peak with load. The ML standards also had a higher inductance, but a lower capacitance than the Lollar Blackfaces, though the difference is fairly small. Resonance is determined by inductance times capacitance, so the higher inductance of the ML Standards was apparently enough to cause the pickups to become darker with added parallel capacitance, which just goes to show, some pickups suffer from pairing with longer guitar cables more than others.
Thanks to Ken Willmott kenwillmott.com/ for designing the integrator used for the measurements.
These sound like a good cross between a hot and a vintage output pickup, to my ears. They're not quite as overbearing as some can be, but they're still pretty bold sounding for Strat pickups. IMO, pickups in this output range have great clean notch positions, but work better with overdrive otherwise. These would be my first choice for pickups in the output range, but I removed them because I'm going to lower output pickups, such as the Lollar Blondes and Tweeds, which I have in other guitars right now.
Lollar Black Face Bridge
DC R: 7.03K
L: 2.800 H
Q: 2.408
Peak: 9.26 kHz
Calculated C: 86pF (106-20)
Coil width: 0.61" (with cloth tape)
Lollar Black Face Middle
DC R: 7.00K
L: 2.650H
Q: 2.286
Peak: 9.16 kHz
Calculated C: 94pF (114-20)
Coil width: 0.61" (with cloth tape)
Lollar Black Face Neck
DC R: 6.70K
L: 2.532H
Q: 2.296
Peak: 9.37 kHz
Calculated C: 94pF (114-20)
Coil width: 0.595" (with cloth tape)
These pickups feature flat poles. Lollar prefers flat poles and upcharges $10 for staggered pole pieces. The gauss reads 900 - 1000, lower than usual for AlNiCo 5, partly due to their smaller overall size, seeing as there is no stagger. The shortest A5 pole typically reads 950-1000 gauss, while the tallest read 1050 - 1150, and these are a little weaker than the typical shortest pole pieces. IME, you don't really hear much of a difference unless the difference is fairly big, though.
The cloth tape appears to be about 0.0175 thick, and double layered all the way around, so I'd estimate with the cloth removed, the coils would closer to 0.52" - 0.54".
No load:
With load:
I was really curious to see how these compared to the ML Standards, and I did an analysis on those already www.strat-talk.com/threads/suhr-ml-standard-analysis-and-review.401092/ . There is an interesting difference in the specs; the ML Standards had a higher resonant peak without load, but a lower resonant peak with load. The ML standards also had a higher inductance, but a lower capacitance than the Lollar Blackfaces, though the difference is fairly small. Resonance is determined by inductance times capacitance, so the higher inductance of the ML Standards was apparently enough to cause the pickups to become darker with added parallel capacitance, which just goes to show, some pickups suffer from pairing with longer guitar cables more than others.
Thanks to Ken Willmott kenwillmott.com/ for designing the integrator used for the measurements.