The process for making a pickup is relatively simple. However, the devil is in the details!
How should the pickup sound? – Ha – first mistake! A pickup itself can´t sound no matter how complicated its structure may be, as Helmuth Lemme, a Munich “pickup guru” – electronics engineer, musician and author – never tires of emphasizing. The pickup as a sound transmitter is just one of many cogs for the specific sound of an instrument, albeit a not insignificant one. In the absence of better information, I have to agree with this opinion without comment. – so there´s no Voodoo!
Who doesn’t know the whirring sound – sometimes louder than the expected pure sound – that gets on your last nerve. Poorly shielded pickups might be responsible for this – this nerve-wracking situation is unlikely to occur with Bassrefiner pickups.
These are hand-wound, elaborately shielded (copper foil soldered to ground) and double-epoxed dual-coil humbuckers with matched magnets, either in Music Man (MM) or soapbar style.
In contrast to established manufacturers, this characterization of the Bassrefiner pickups does not require pages of esoteric stuff which is very enjoyable to read in Lemmes book Pickups, Potis & Co. You won´t find any “Geschwurbel” here on my website.
The secret of making great pickups? There´s none! People who hear the grass grow would be better off buying a lawnmower.
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