2/5/2023 0 Comments Duncan ssl6 reviewThe cause is obvious, but I would have never imagined the capacitive coupling would be so dramatic. That's roughly equivalent to a 20 foot long guitar cable's worth of capacitance. The measured results show a very surprising thing, a wildly large amount of unwanted capacitance when tapped, around 600pF capacitance when tapped. It's safe to assume that this was the design goal of this pickup. The very low loaded Q factor and resonant peak makes the SSL-4 similar to hot PAF type humbucker, from an electrical standpoint, although this pickup gets there with a higher wind count, rather than steel core components. Pole pieces: 0.2525" diameter (typically 0.18"), Flux density at top center: 600G to 1000G. Strat pickups this hot should be thought of more as humbuckers, and paired with 500k, or even 1meg pots. It was actually a very versatile setup, and the tapped tone was nice, but ultimately I felt it just looked too ugly, and so I tried the same thing again with tapped SSL-5's, and it's pretty much the same equation, but with a stock Strat appearance. I had loaded a Strat with three SSL-4's, each one with a little tap dip switch, with the idea that the neck and middle would be tapped most of the time.
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