notthefish

You built a preamp this preamp of your own design ? It sounds good to me and the play is nice.

Has anyone compared the Turner pickups with the Herricks ? I visted the Herrick website https://www.herrickpickups.com/ and there is an interest blurb on what he does different: Practically ALL our Multi-coil pickups are built with an integral full Soft Steel or Wrought Iron chassis. This chassis ensures that the tone is true to the genuine, Multi-coil sound . The reason for using a chassis is not just so that the pole pieces are height adjustable to handle just about any radiused finger board, but more importantly to Ensure that the Tone is Un-Coloured & Un-affected by the magnets used in construction . The multi coils in Herrick Pickups are driven by the Magneto-Motive force passing through The Steel chassis & Pole pieces rather than the simple 1-magnet-per-coil set up used by other multi-coil pickup makers. A magnetised chassis makes the Tone experienced by the player as Transparent as possible to enhance the Natural tone of the actual woods used in your specific Instrument. This is an important factor when choosing a multi-coil pickup system in both a passive circuit or with an active pre-amp as the Tone focuses on the woods used in construction, which makes every Instrument's tone Unique. It's true that our multi-coil pickups are a little more expensive than other brands that lack a proper Steel or Wrought Iron chassis. But when the benefits of the superior build are considered, Herrick multi-coils represent unbeatable value for money & a sound Investment for our customers. Sure sounds interesting..

I see a big player in Nordstrand is now wading into the Wal tone pool with some new "kind of" multi coil pickups. https://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2024/03/new-gear-nordstrand-audio-polyvox-multi-coil-pickups/ It has just one coil per string with 2 pole pieces (effectively a splt P pickup per string on a staggered angle) Different to the Wal.. Should be popular though.