Introducing the Zexcoil Juicy Bucker with the Silent Split

[ScottB]

Scott Lawing here again.

We're rolling out our Zexcoil® Juicy Bucker™ with the Silent Split™ option.



The Juicy Bucker has been available for a while, and people have been frankly amazed at the humbucker tones coming out of this little single-coil-sized package. Here's a sampling of what they're saying:


“The (Juicy Bucker) rages, sounding like a big full-size humbucker, great for metal and hard rock. It has the sound of a bigger pickup, as opposed to the "hot but narrow" overwound hot-rails pickup type thing.”

“The Juicy bucker is my new fav pickup!"

"Those bucker sounds are legit! Much cooler than any stacked or rails designs that purport to give up the bucker tone.”

“They do not sound like a single coil sized humbucker. They sound like an awesome humbucker.”

“The clarity and string separation of this pickup really is a God send. It is still full and warm sounding and out "PAF's" all of my other PAF's...and I have several. Good work! Now I'm thinking about replacing the other 2 pickups in this Strat.”


And now, we've developed the Silent Split option, that enables a great, hum-canceling, single coil tone as well! Plus, it's the same price so you effectively get two fantastic, noise canceling pickups in one!!

The Juicy Bucker with the Silent Split option comes configured with 4-conductor wiring and all you need to enable the split feature is a switch or push pull pot (not included).

We are also offering our Signature Set, featuring the Silent Split Juicy Bucker in the bridge, with a controls kit (500 k volume pot, 500 k push pull tone pot, and your choice of blender - not pre-wired) for a special low introductory price. Or you can build your own set featuring any two of our pickups and a Juicy Bucker in the bridge for the same introductory price.

Here's a couple of videos featuring the Silent Split Juicy Bucker:

[fyrwyr]

Sounds as good as I expected Scott, great job!!!!!!

[thesjkexperienc]

A set of Zexcoils will be mine soon!

[starjag]

Looking forward info about your Tele pickups!

[ScottB]

Originally Posted by starjag

Looking forward info about your Tele pickups!

We just announced that they are available:

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/sho...hlight=zexcoil

A couple of really nice comments on the YouTube video of the Silent Split Juicy Bucker, people are declaring that this pickup nails both humbucker and single coil tones!

I'd have to say I agree.

[ScottB]

Bump, because this is a pickup you want!

[Pyrrhic Victory]

Anybody have any experience with using just one, not a whole set?
I'm considering mixing a bridge juicy with two true singles... any thoughts?
They sure sound like great pups.

[ScottB]

Originally Posted by Pyrrhic Victory

Anybody have any experience with using just one, not a whole set?
I'm considering mixing a bridge juicy with two true singles... any thoughts?
They sure sound like great pups.

Well, here's a perspective (requoted from the OP):

“The clarity and string separation of this pickup really is a God send. It is still full and warm sounding and out "PAF's" all of my other PAF's...and I have several. Good work! Now I'm thinking about replacing the other 2 pickups in this Strat.”

This was recent feedback from a satisfied customer.

I think it'll work well. I would recommend just dropping it in, and if you think it is too dark with 250 k pots, you could swap out the volume for a 500 k and wire up resistors to the two singles so they "see" effectively 250 k still.

[V]

How would you do that? Wouldn't putting two in parallel if they have a 500k resistor each on them then lower the effective resistance they see to 166k (500 from the pot and 500 for each pickup all in parallel)? Of course, in parallel that might not be the worst as the frequency response is higher anyway.

Hmm...food for thought.

[ScottB]

Originally Posted by V

How would you do that? Wouldn't putting two in parallel if they have a 500k resistor each on them then lower the effective resistance they see to 166k (500 from the pot and 500 for each pickup all in parallel)? Of course, in parallel that might not be the worst as the frequency response is higher anyway.

Hmm...food for thought.

With a standard switch you'd have a low value in parallel, yes, my mistake.

You could do it with a superswitch and keep them discrete.

I'm pretty sure the people that have been doing the Juicy Bucker only have been running 250 k and are happy with it. I'll check in with some of them and find out.

[V]

I've run the two zexes I have with 250k and 1M, actually. I think I prefer the 1M but they were also nice with 250k. Then again, I like a fair bit of high end for my style of playing.

Great pickups. They're completely silent even with my souped up JCM800/Hiwatt hybrid that has a whole extra preamp tube on the high channel! The only noise I get is from the amp itself.

[Pyrrhic Victory]

V: Which zexes do you run?

I'm definitely leaning toward a juicybucker myself.

It's just that if I've got to wire up a bunch of resistors and a new superswitch and new pots, I might just go with a traditional humbucker.

But if one zex is a plug and play solution, I'd be thrilled.

[ScottB]

Originally Posted by Pyrrhic Victory

V: Which zexes do you run?

I'm definitely leaning toward a juicybucker myself.

It's just that if I've got to wire up a bunch of resistors and a new superswitch and new pots, I might just go with a traditional humbucker.

But if one zex is a plug and play solution, I'd be thrilled.

I'll put one in a rig with two conventional singles and 250 k pots in the next few days and let you know how it performs.

[Pyrrhic Victory]

That would be awesome.

[pipedwho]

Originally Posted by Pyrrhic Victory

V: Which zexes do you run?

I'm definitely leaning toward a juicybucker myself.

It's just that if I've got to wire up a bunch of resistors and a new superswitch and new pots, I might just go with a traditional humbucker.

But if one zex is a plug and play solution, I'd be thrilled.

It depends on what you mean by plug and play, and how much compromise you're willing to make to do things the easy way.

The 250k/500k issue will exist with a traditional humbucker also. That being said, in the bridge position with full sized humbuckers and the natural brightness, it's usually less of an issue than you'd think. I expect the same to apply to the Juicy Bucker. Obviously, it's more 'ideal' to have a 500k load on a high inductance humbucking pickup, but some people actually prefer the sound of a 250k load anyway. So I wouldn't worry too much.

The juicy would definitely be plug and play. If you're guitar isn't already wired to split the bridge pickup, you'd probably want to consider a push-pull pot for selecting between split and full.