DiMarzio Tone Zone in #37.
I don't know if you can tell, but I used non-magnetic brass screws. Standard head, unfortunately. Couldn't find any Phillips head locally. Still, better than steel.
BTW, Wikipedia calls me frequently. Henry F. Phillips, of Portland Oregon, who we all associate with the Phillips head screwdriver, did not invent the standard. He bought the design from John P. Thompson, who hadn't been able to successfully market it. So it shoulda been the "Thompson head screwdriver," but Johnny lost his legacy to a guy with a lot of money. Then Hank Phillips got Cadillac to start using them on their assembly line and the Fat Lady Sang.
Anyway...Tone Zone. Greatest humbucker of all time? I've gotta say it's a contender, at the very least. Normally you trade output for bandwidth. Like, Fender single coils have a relatively low output, but tons of high end. Bright shimmery goodness, but not very high output. Which is the active thing. Low output pickups with preamps can have a ton of bandwidth...too much, sometimes. Most of the time, really. Tone Zone, though...mismatched coils. Different gauge of wire on each one. So they don't really cancel hum as well as a normal humbucker, but they're still essentially silent in the audible frequency range, while retaining some of the character of single coil pickups. They have a DC resistance of 17K or so and an output of 375 mV, which would normally mean reduced bandwidth or strange emphasis on parts of the bandwidth, but not the case. It's got a kind of open sound you'd associate with a pickup more like 11K and 225 mV. I mean, it's not trebly, but it's very warm and open. And there's some kind of freaky notch-filter-y thing going on because of the coils being mismatched that just seems to scream with a tiny bit of distortion. My favorite bridge pickup by far. Staten Island represent!
DiMarzio Tone Zone in #37.
I don't know if you can tell, but I used non-magnetic brass screws. Standard head, unfortunately. Couldn't find any Phillips head locally. Still, better than steel.
BTW, Wikipedia calls me frequently. Henry F. Phillips, of Portland Oregon, who we all associate with the Phillips head screwdriver, did not invent the standard. He bought the design from John P. Thompson, who hadn't been able to successfully market it. So it shoulda been the "Thompson head screwdriver," but Johnny lost his legacy to a guy with a lot of money. Then Hank Phillips got Cadillac to start using them on their assembly line and the Fat Lady Sang.
Anyway...Tone Zone. Greatest humbucker of all time? I've gotta say it's a contender, at the very least. Normally you trade output for bandwidth. Like, Fender single coils have a relatively low output, but tons of high end. Bright shimmery goodness, but not very high output. Which is the active thing. Low output pickups with preamps can have a ton of bandwidth...too much, sometimes. Most of the time, really. Tone Zone, though...mismatched coils. Different gauge of wire on each one. So they don't really cancel hum as well as a normal humbucker, but they're still essentially silent in the audible frequency range, while retaining some of the character of single coil pickups. They have a DC resistance of 17K or so and an output of 375 mV, which would normally mean reduced bandwidth or strange emphasis on parts of the bandwidth, but not the case. It's got a kind of open sound you'd associate with a pickup more like 11K and 225 mV. I mean, it's not trebly, but it's very warm and open. And there's some kind of freaky notch-filter-y thing going on because of the coils being mismatched that just seems to scream with a tiny bit of distortion. My favorite bridge pickup by far. Staten Island represent!