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If you did a course on building a pickup from beginning to end I'd be interested in paying for that.

Colin, what was that you were winding that looked like 2 halves of a single coil? Looked interesting.

This was wicked

"The physical relationship between the magnetism and electricity" is by far the deepest nerdic erotic trigger I've experienced in YT and some other tubes combined.

For the love of God - timestamps please

I'll gladly accept any donations. Thanks for the kind words.

Dude he has a Patreon

@@JuveriSetila yeah video is still free i would give him some cash if i had any tho :d

An ill eagle is a sick bird!

It is. You're under arrest.

Can you fississists please change that eternal fississist into a proper English word? Fississist is just white noise, I can't stand that word.

He got the whole stacking of the windings wrong though about causing the sounding different in the magnetic field. As an EE with an emphasis in electromagnetics, I can tell you that it's the distributed capacitance that effects the sound of the pickup with short vs tall wound bobbins, esp into higher impedance amplifier input stages.

Why am I tempted to see if I can build an electric forge, heater or motor using guitar pickups after watching this video?

@@voornaam3191 what is proper English though? Each English speaking country has different spelling.

​@@indridcold4210 Thanks, now I'm completely confused about everything again, good job.

Such people are "guitarded".

Actually, most people who obsess over the construction of the guitar are just as obsessive about their pickups. I have no idea where you get the oppinion that they ignore what's generating the signal at all never mind completely.

@@Relayer6a I'm talking about people who think tonewood is a thing, not the craftsmanship.

@@joshuabarron8535 I know what you meant. And those people most assuredly care about the pups, nut, bridge, etc... They probably care more than the people who don't think the guitar itself matters. Besides, if it doesn't matter to you that's ok. But people telling others that it only matters if they think it does, is just self righteousness.

@@Relayer6a whatever

Thank you!

@@ScienceofLoud 🤘🤘💪💪👏👏👏YES INDEED YOU ARE A TRUE RU-vid TREASURE !!! AND.... I AM SUBSCRIBED SINCE MANY YEARS AND THE RU-vid ALGORITHM DOES NOT HELP YOU AT ALL ! SHAME ON YOU "SO CALLED" RU-vid !!! OMG ! You just answered a question I have made to various RU-vid guitar luthier/players like you and nobody never ever cared to read nor answered it !!! I was going to start writing the same question to you having a weird Double Note that happened everytime I hammer-on any strings on some of my guitars specially when practicing WITHOUT an AMPLIFIER. ( BTW, I do not remember if it was more pronounce on the High non wound strings ) So, I happen to have a cheap practice Strat with NO pickups and I just tested it to hear if it has this Double Note problem and .....NOPE ....it does not happen on any string ! I should had noticed this did not happened on my Martín guitar, but I never did !!! Shame on me !!! Duhhhh.... I also called some excellent USA premier luthiers and ALL to my surprise, they said that my problem was " STRATITIS " , which is a different problem for what I have read. So now I ask you .....What is the diference between Stratitis versus Double note problem ? And what if some of my Humbucker guitars also the Double note ISSUE ? What should I do ? Lower all the pickups on the problem Double Note guitars ! Please BE THE ONE THAT DOES A EXPLICIT VIDEO ON THIS ISSUE WITH NO AMP AUDIO EXAMPLES including the STRATITIS ISSUE TOO !!! I am so happy now because of you !!! You are my MASTER LUTHIER FROM NOW ON ! PERIOD !!! THANK YOU AND MANY BLESSINGS TO ALL ps. I hope you get to read my video suggestion ! And sorry for the length of the text !!!

That is a really good request/question. I'd like to know too.

@@timmotel5804 I'm a little late, but fundamentally they have a similar sound because their transfer function is similar, much more similar than between transistors and tubes. From an engineering standpoint, germanium transistors may have an elusive quality to their sound due to their inconsistency. The properties of germanium transistors are much less consistent than modern silicon transistors, and their properties change much more with temperature, so devices built with them were temperamental and not two would sound exactly alike - I speak in past tense because they're no longer manufactured and any germanium effects you find now use new old stock parts, so they'll be gone soon. When using germanium, the same unit which sounds great in the summer might be unusable in the winter. Jimi Hendrix was known to keep several fuzz pedals with him to resolve this issue. Fuzz pedals built with germanium also have a lower maximum gain available for the most part because the majority of silicon transistors have higher gain factors than germanium transistors. It's important to remember that the differences between different types of transistors and tubes is only really audible when they're operating nonlinearly (distorting), especially if not using negative feedback in the circuit, otherwise circuits sound the way they do because of how they're designed. People will sell you on all sorts of hocus pocus, but there's nothing magical about germanium transistors - tubes on the other hand offer an appreciable difference in distortion characteristics. If you want to build a silicon fuzz that sounds closer to germanium fuzz circuits try a low gain transistor like 2N4123. You can't directly substitute an NPN transistor like that in a germanium circuit though and would need to find a PNP equivalent.

@@maudiojunky Thank You. Very informative. Best Regards

Nice comment, part of the charm of his videos. Somehow makes them more interesting, I certainly have to listen a little closer.

It reminds me of Mr. Scott on Star Trek. "The engines canna take much more of this, Captain! Ach, my poor wee bairns!"

@@JohnShalamskas This was a beautifully done video. But only understood/deciphered about 80-85% of his plethora of valuable information, due to my hearing issues(I'm almost deaf), and Colin's really thick Scottish/Irish Brogue, my problem, not his. There was a lot of info here to assimilate!! Great video!!

"peckup", "sund", "defferent"... I've never heard this accent before and I really got curious where it comes from. I couldn't identify at all.

Wee Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿....... hearts desire💜

Yes! DC resistance is only a first order approximation of what's going on. In a coil, the resistance to current flow increases as the frequency rises. The AC equivalent of resistance is called "impedance" and is also measured in ohms. There is a reactive component to impedance, either inductive or capacitive, which means the voltage and current are out of phase. A stronger magnet increases the impedance. More coil turns increases the impedance and the DC resistance. Smaller wire increases DC resistance.

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No. It’s a wallet thing!

..Wondered the same as well..

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. Can you detail your question a bit further for me?

@@ScienceofLoud yeah, I've seen some pickups that have alnico pole pieces with a ceramic bar below, and others marketed as hybrid pickups with both magnets in?

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U pun'ce of shit