No,this ;
What part? This?
"The recipe for this pickup set begins with a rough cast alnico 5 magnet, plain enamel wire, and Seymour’s unique winding pattern. The bridge is a vintage-hot 8.78k DC resistance and the neck is similarly beefy at 8.20k. The rough cast magnets add warmth and balance so everything sounds bigger. What is sonically unique about the Whole Lotta Humbucker pickups is the way that they push your amp and add a very slight natural compression and sustain to your sound."
That doesn't seem at all like nonsense to me. They're telling you the magnet time, wire type, and that they've got some "unique winding pattern" (ok so a machine spits wire around in a coil in a certain way). Then they go into the specs. Other sections of the page have that bass/mid/treble response chart which at least provides some idea as to what you're getting.
I dunno...I don't find any marketing on that page particularly over the top or nonsensical at all. Have you seen the pickups that are getting made using the actual original PAF winding machine and selling for stupid money (talking over $700 per pair)? Those feel much worse to me.
https://www.throbak.com/
“Seymour’s early 70s London P.A.F. rewind recipe that graced the guitars of some of the most important British artists of the time.”
Plus the name of the Humbucker .
Plus the guy in the video playing something akin to Achilles Last Stand by Led Zeppelin.
Plus the Union Jack flag in the video.
It’s pretty much saying ‘put this pickup in your guitar and you will sound like your guitar hero Jimmy Page - because Seymour Duncan made a pickup in the early 70s that was so good it ‘graced’ jimmys guitar and was involved in Jimmy Page getting his amazing guitar sounds. this pickup will nail that tone.’ Pretty much.
Which is complete bullshit.
It’s all hyperbole with pickups.
This excerpt: “The rough cast magnets add warmth and balance so everything sounds bigger. What is sonically unique about the Whole Lotta Humbucker pickups is the way that they push your amp and add a very slight natural compression and sustain to your sound."
What does “warmth” or “balance” really mean?
They are just words , vague subjective and unquantifiable really.
And why do they somehow make ‘everything sound bigger’ ? And how do “rough cast magnets ‘ do this exactly?
That last sentence re ‘sonic uniqueness’ - ALL Humbuckers push your amp. It’s the nature of a humbucker !
I gotta lol at the “very slight” descriptor .
Very slight natural compression and sustain. So slight you may only slightly hear it .. or you may not, but trust us it’s there.
It’s all just vague words that add mojo but they don’t really make any sense / highly subjective/ vague/ meaningless.
There is no measure of “warmness” in sound. No scale. The same with “balance” . Wtf does that even mean? And what is ‘natural’ compression? Is there ‘artificial’ or ‘unnatural’ compression?
What about organic and gluten free compression maybe.
It’s almost Fortune Teller bullshit this kind of talk.
Statistics: Posted by Naillerz78 — Fri Jul 26, 2024 1:44 pm