xmd5a
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About the claim that old pickups were good because they were microphonic. They could just add a microphone to pickups if they wanted. Why don't they?
About the claim that they sounded better because they were hand wound, the revered PAF has ALWAYS been machine wound. And no, the way the wire is laid onto the coil doesn't affect how the pickup sounds. We're talking about magnetic fields moving current through a wire, not fancy spices cultivated by monks.
All these explanations are "backsplanations", I like to call them. You start with your belief first, and then you back-fill the missing science with a bunch of mumbo jumbo. A charitable person would say it's just an innocent consequence of human psychology. A less charitable person would say that vintage peddlers are grifting guitarists deliberately.
About the claim that they sounded better because they were hand wound, the revered PAF has ALWAYS been machine wound. And no, the way the wire is laid onto the coil doesn't affect how the pickup sounds. We're talking about magnetic fields moving current through a wire, not fancy spices cultivated by monks.
All these explanations are "backsplanations", I like to call them. You start with your belief first, and then you back-fill the missing science with a bunch of mumbo jumbo. A charitable person would say it's just an innocent consequence of human psychology. A less charitable person would say that vintage peddlers are grifting guitarists deliberately.