Leaderboard

I used to have a set of "hot" humbuckers in my SG...not bad for coaxing more distortion out, but the clean tones never sounded quite right! A producer once told me that overwound pickups seemed a bit of a waste of time to him, "when there are so many easy ways to hit a preamp harder these days." I could have gone on about how the higher impedance changes the centre frequency of the circuit and therefore the overall tone, but I thought [a] he had a fair point, and [b] the people enthusiastically refitting their guitars with hot pickups probably weren't thinking about the nuances of LRC circuits...