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I’ve worked with '''Carvin''' for decades, actually. They’re a wonderful company. They branched into two parts now as '''Carvin''', which is the electronic stuff, and family name Kiesel, which is the guitar side now. And I have a wonderful relationship with them. Whenever I have a new idea or something I want to change on my instrument they’re always ready to help me out. | I’ve worked with '''Carvin''' for decades, actually. They’re a wonderful company. They branched into two parts now as '''Carvin''', which is the electronic stuff, and family name Kiesel, which is the guitar side now. And I have a wonderful relationship with them. Whenever I have a new idea or something I want to change on my instrument they’re always ready to help me out. | ||
==[[Interview_with_Allan_Holdsworth_(Jazz_Italia_2005)]]== | |||
ALEX: What's the difference between your Seymour Duncan and Carvin pickups? Which you prefer? | |||
ALLAN: Actually, the technical specifications are the same, but what's different is that ... well, they use the same winding, it's the old-fashioned enamel like the old PAF [“è quello smaltato in vecchio stile come il vecchio PAF”]. In the past an enamel cover was used on the winding [“In passato si utilizzava una copertura di smalto sull'avvolgimento”], so if you put something like 500 wraps around it takes up a certain space. Well, the new pickups use a plastic cover so that the 500 windings take up less space and the pickup's magnetic field is different. All the old pickups that had the wrapping covered with black enamel sounded really good. So the Seymour Duncan used the same winding. A couple of these pickups were built ... one was what I told you and the other is the one I use on my guitar. It has plastic wrapping ... if you look closely, you can see its pink color. If you look at the pickup on my guitar, it's black. They are both good, only different. The Carvin is a bit 'hotter' ... a little more full-bodied. In fact, on the Carvin, after making that pickup, everyone adopted it. [Machine back translated.] | |||
[[Category:Guitars]] | [[Category:Guitars]] | ||
