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Way off base and out of control, Skinny.
There really are no butts to kiss here. This is supposed to be meeting ground for peers, or do I assume to much? My opinions stand, and since you hide behind a handle, I cannot give you either respect nor the disrespect I might choose if you were person enough to be known.
It's really easy for those of you who hide behind false personas to spout off, rant, insult, and otherwise behave in a manner you'd not have the guts to do either in person or if you took your masks off.
I stand behind my statement that the most important elements of guitar or bass tone are the fingers on the strings. We do not make the musician's sound, we can merely help shape it a bit. The best guitar players I know are unmistakably themselves no matter what instrument they pick up. 300 turns of 43 ga. wire plus or minus doesn't change that. Neither does more or less carbon in the pole pieces. Nor Alnico 2 vs. aged 5. Nor, for that matter does it seem to change whether they're playing a Les Paul or a Strat, given that some here have thought that Lindsey Buckingham played mostly on his Les Paul on Rumours...(reality: NOT!).
It's digital tone controls, baby, five digits on each hand unless you're Django Reinhardt or Jerry Garcia. Then subtract a few...
At our best as pickup makers, we can free up our musician clients to best express themselves, and we can maybe pat ourselves on the back for helping that to happen, but pickups are but one element of a winning combination of instrument, musician, and amplifier. To think that we are the most important part of that is like thinking that your carburetor was the most important element of winning a Formula 1 race, completely ignoring the driver, the tire makers, or the suspension tuner.
There really are no butts to kiss here. This is supposed to be meeting ground for peers, or do I assume to much? My opinions stand, and since you hide behind a handle, I cannot give you either respect nor the disrespect I might choose if you were person enough to be known.
It's really easy for those of you who hide behind false personas to spout off, rant, insult, and otherwise behave in a manner you'd not have the guts to do either in person or if you took your masks off.
I stand behind my statement that the most important elements of guitar or bass tone are the fingers on the strings. We do not make the musician's sound, we can merely help shape it a bit. The best guitar players I know are unmistakably themselves no matter what instrument they pick up. 300 turns of 43 ga. wire plus or minus doesn't change that. Neither does more or less carbon in the pole pieces. Nor Alnico 2 vs. aged 5. Nor, for that matter does it seem to change whether they're playing a Les Paul or a Strat, given that some here have thought that Lindsey Buckingham played mostly on his Les Paul on Rumours...(reality: NOT!).
It's digital tone controls, baby, five digits on each hand unless you're Django Reinhardt or Jerry Garcia. Then subtract a few...
At our best as pickup makers, we can free up our musician clients to best express themselves, and we can maybe pat ourselves on the back for helping that to happen, but pickups are but one element of a winning combination of instrument, musician, and amplifier. To think that we are the most important part of that is like thinking that your carburetor was the most important element of winning a Formula 1 race, completely ignoring the driver, the tire makers, or the suspension tuner.
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