Spike Vincent Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Ermmm....What's a scatterwound pickup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Is this , by strange coincidence, anything to do with Norman Watt -Roy ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Vincent Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Vincent Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 It's more of a Death Metal thing.Long story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 (edited) I only mention it because I came across this today and wondered the very same thing : [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MvLXe2BfVA"]https://www.youtube....h?v=8MvLXe2BfVA[/url] New bass , apparently with scatterwound pickups, whatever they might be. Edited November 9, 2012 by Dingus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Vincent Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 Yes,mate of mine has just aquired some,and frankly I have no idea what the difference is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer of the Bass Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 In a lot of machine wound coils, the windings on each layer sit neatly side by side, with no variation or overlap. In a scatterwound coil, they're deliberately wound in a more random pattern, typically by guiding the wire by hand, though some of the more sophisticated winding machines can do it. How much difference this makes to the tone is up for debate, but it does make a difference to some measurable properties of the coil, so I can picture there being[i] some [/i]difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Vincent Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 Nice one.Cheers dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iiipopes Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 The supposed effect of a scatterwound coil is to lessen intra-coil capacitance, which supposedly results in a "clearer" pickup or, another way to say it, more top-end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 From the Bare Knuckle Pickup site .. [url="https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/faq.php"]Why do scatterwound pickups sound different to machine wound ones[/url] Scatterwinding by hand can be time consuming but it has many advantages over conventional machine winding, not least a far superior sound. When a coil is scatterwound, the wire isn't as close or even, layer on layer, as with a machine and this lowers the distributed capacitance that exists between the turns of the wire. Lower capacitance allows more top end through, the resonant peak increases slightly and the pickup has a flatter frequency response across its range. The result is a clearer, more open sound that has the impression of being louder purely by the amount of extra detail and dynamics present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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