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Filterton with rails for the wound strings: no more sacrificing the wound string response to get those sparkly trebles!
http://www.tvjones.com/paul-yandell-duo-tron-pickups.html
It seems obvious to me that the problem with filtertrons is the lack of both treble and dynamic response on the wound strings compared to the luminous treble strings. Putting the rails to the wound strings could give something like a cross between a P90 and a Filtertron, which would be about as good as a pickup could be IMO.
He used a hammer and chisel to make the middle hole big enough!
Not the effect I am thinking of
What would be really important to achieve with these, if I can start producing such a thing, in your views?
A "rails" type humbucking jazz bass pickup
A single-coil sized humbucker with the tone of a Firebird pickup.
You'd probably want alnico bar magnets for the rails to make it similar to a normal jazz bass tonally.
The second would be virtually impossible. Single coil sized humbuckers typically use really thin wire to get enough turns on to get a reasonable output. That makes them quite bassy - definitely not what I'd consider to be firebird like. Add to that that they have alnico bars inside the coils - I can't think of any way I could approximate it. I think your closest would be a stacked single - not that that is close.
I can get my hands on a rail humbucker for a Tele bridge which has pretty large bobbins, I'd say tentatively they're large enough to accommodate a Fiiltertron wind. Stick a small alnico magnet underneath between the rails and I reckon you're in the filtertron ballpark.
Z coils are very niche, unfortunately I don't think there's enough interest out there to justify the R&D that would go into making a production model.
I've discovered my supplier actually sells more or less everything required for PAF sized Filtertrons (under completely wrong names), so I've ordered in some supplies for those, so I should begin prototyping in the next week or so.
I've decided so make a very basic staple design to begin with. I'm going to make some custom flatwork to install the staples in like alnico pole pieces of Fender pickups. I've found the staples to be more or less half the length of a standard bar magnet, so I'll pick up some unorientated pieces to cut in half and remagnetise the correct way. This means they won't have adjustable poles, but if they turn out nicely and are highly demanded that can be sorted in the future.
In addition to this, I'll make them coverless by making the flatwork outside dimensions those of a P90 cover. This makes them able to accommodate a higher number of winds, meaning I have more room to play around with winds.
Your murky horizon bridge and cirrostratus get their first gig outings with me tonight and tomorrow, will be very interesting to put them through their paces; so far from what I've heard without the band these are some lovely pickups.
Actually I'd start with a perfectly symmetrical wind if I were to design such a thing. They'll be pretty scooped as they are before being asymmetrically wound, so doing so would likely be overkill.