Seymour Duncan Seth Lovers vs PAFs - A scam, joke, or delusion?

[ruger9]

So I'm watching the movie, and you guys were definitely right about the guitars! Gorgeous! So, early in the movie, the Hank Garland character is standing on the side of the stage waiting to go on for the first time, and a skinny dude in a awful outfit walks up and chats him up a bit, and tells him he needs to "play fast", and I had to laugh out loud Because as much as I like Tony McAlpine, I love Steve Vai and seeing him there in that ridiculous getup telling Hank Garland to play fast was just too much .

He does kind of look like Hank!

[Cunamara]

Benedettos use high-output pickups, designed to be played with the volume rolled back by at least 50%. That changes the resonance peak, and thus the sound. An A6 fully open doesn't sound that great to me, but at ~50% it is a great pickup, perhaps the best I've heard. Changing the volume changes the sound, and makes it easier to get the sound you want. A weaker pickup gives pretty much one sound, and you like it or you don't. The difference in tone from an A6 with volume changes isn't dramatic, but it's enough to be heard, at least by me. If I wanted to change humbuckers, an A6 would almost always be my first choice.

my Ibanez GB10 (1981) has a similar dynamic to it. With the knobs up at 10, it is incontrovertibly a George Bensonish sounding guitar. With the volume knob at 4–5, it sounds much like a regular arch top. The resonant peak has shifted, as you say, the pickup is so hot that the guitar is as loud as my others are on 9–10.

[entresz]

my Ibanez GB10 (1981) has a similar dynamic to it. With the knobs up at 10, it is incontrovertibly a George Bensonish sounding guitar. With the volume knob at 4–5, it sounds much like a regular arch top. The resonant peak has shifted, as you say, the pickup is so hot that the guitar is as loud as my others are on 9–10.

I have Dynasonics in my main guitar and they're just like this. With everything on 10 there's simply too much of everything. They're incredibly 'rude' sounding. But with the tone and vol backed off, they are heavenly.

[ruger9]

my Ibanez GB10 (1981) has a similar dynamic to it. With the knobs up at 10, it is incontrovertibly a George Bensonish sounding guitar. With the volume knob at 4–5, it sounds much like a regular arch top. The resonant peak has shifted, as you say, the pickup is so hot that the guitar is as loud as my others are on 9–10.

I have a GUITAR (not pickups) that is like this. No matter what pickups are in it: Filtertrons, P90s, Dynasonics... it's loud. I have to turn it down to "9" to match my other guitars. And even lowering the volume 1 notch does change the resonant frequency, just a little (I have a high-pass filter, so-called "treble bleed" on the volume pot).