i was looking at getting some noiseless to replace the SCN's in my new strat, but i really much prefer Vanzandts to anything i've used and have always been happy with them. But after the SCN experience i'm really lusting after the noiseless aspect. So nice.......but just can't deal with losing that tone i love. So this has me really excited. Please make it happen before the man upstairs calls me or decides to shut down all fine motor movment in my hands via arthritis or the like.
Because this system utilizes regular/traditional single-coil pickups. Stacked pickups are just vertical humbuckers.....they will inherently sound "different" than single-coil pickups.
That's what I'm thinking too. Being primarily a Strat player I've tried a few of the stacked singles and just wasn't happy with the tone, especially with fuzz pedals and such. But there are times when you play places where singles hum so bad you can't use them.
John mentioned on the phone that Scott Henderson has the golden ears for hearing differences such as this in a A/B test. As picky as Scott is about tone, I'm sure Scotts positive comments reassured John that indeed he was on to something big. I heard from a Surh dealer yesterday that Mike Landau was getting this mod on his guitar this week sometime. Sounds like Mikey is sold also! The hum will no longer have to be part of that vintage single coil sound! My new classic on order will have this circuit installed, even if I have to have my Suhr dealer bump the order a month or two. Can't wait!!Originally posted by fjs1962
Of course I'm sure there will be someone who tries John's system and says it doesn't sound as good because "the hum is a part of whole single coil sound"
