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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: 36th Anniversary PAF Bridge

« Last post by gregr on Today at 03:36:40 PM »

Anything that gets them farther away from the older pickups can’t be a bad thing.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / 1/2 aired Tone Zone mod

« Last post by LPBII on Today at 01:14:00 PM »

Forgive me if this has already been addressed. (I don't have a seven string TZ, so I can't answer that question in the context of 7 string operation.)

This mod is super easy and reversable. You just remove the metal spacer from around the pole screws of the screw coil and slide the magnet over against the screw poles, leaving a tiny gap between the slug coil slug poles and the magnet.

Clears up much of the lower mid congestion and overly present low end that can be present.

To go further, lower the bass side of the pickup a bit further, and put the adjustment screws flush with the bobbin on the bass side, while raising the B&E screws to taste.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: The Tone Zone

« Last post by nienturi on October 16, 2026, 03:29:21 AM »

So, the Tone Zone and the Air Zone have their coil specs reversed to each other. The screw coil of the TZ is like the slug coil on the AZ, and the slug coil on the TZ is like the screw coil on the AZ. Interesting. Also makes fine tuning the adjustable screws probably different between the two.

I think so. Because since than i have bought another TZ and here i write the measurements of it;
Measured DCR: 17,529 K Ohm (Series)
Measured DCR: 8,223 K Ohm (Slug Coil)
Measured DCR: 9,24 K Ohm (Screw Coil)
Inductance @100Hz: 8,79H (Series)
Inductance @100Hz: 3,8649H (Slug Coil)
Inductance @100Hz: 4,1907H (Screw Coil)

I still have that Air Zone in my inventory and this TZ, too. I can re-check.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: 36th Anniversary PAF Bridge

« Last post by nienturi on October 16, 2026, 03:21:08 AM »

I couldn’t find the original webpage but there is plenty of marketing info here:
https://www.epiphonetalk.com/threads/epiphone-pickup-information.198/

Thanks. I think the old manufacturer is different than the one builds todays pickups. There are many visible improvements on them. As far as i remember, now, G&B manufactures the pickups of Epis.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: The Tone Zone

« Last post by LPBII on October 15, 2026, 03:55:54 PM »

Thanks to nienturi's excellent review of the Air Zone (thanks for posting this on here), we have 8.3k for the screw coil and 9k for the slug coil, assuming the coils of Air Zone and Tone Zone are identical.

Cheers Stephan

I also have Tone Zone measurements
Thanks BTW.

Dimarzio DP155 Tone Zone
Magnet – Alnico 5
Advertised DCR: 17,31K Ohm (Series)
Measured DCR: 17,45 K Ohm (Series)
Measured DCR: 8,25 K Ohm (Slug Coil)
Measured DCR: 9,29 K Ohm (Screw Coil)
Inductance @100Hz: 8,79H (Series)
Inductance @100Hz: 3,77H (Slug Coil)
Inductance @100Hz: 4,03H (Screw Coil)
Gauss: 340G Screw, 375G Slug
https://www.tonejourney.com/post/dimarzio-tone-zone-dp155-review

So, the Tone Zone and the Air Zone have their coil specs reversed to each other. The screw coil of the TZ is like the slug coil on the AZ, and the slug coil on the TZ is like the screw coil on the AZ. Interesting. Also makes fine tuning the adjustable screws probably different between the two.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: 36th Anniversary PAF Bridge

« Last post by gregr on October 15, 2026, 10:02:56 AM »

I couldn’t find the original webpage but there is plenty of marketing info here:
https://www.epiphonetalk.com/threads/epiphone-pickup-information.198/

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: 36th Anniversary PAF Bridge

« Last post by nienturi on October 15, 2026, 01:56:55 AM »

Just to annoy all the cork sniffers who hear with their wallets, the Epiphone Alnico Classic Pro is a damn good pickup which I will gladly listen to from someone who can play well than from someone who spends $200 on a pickup that can’t.

Older Epiphone pickups were so terrible that I haven't even been curious about the relatively newer Epi pickups of the kind you're talking about

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: 36th Anniversary PAF Bridge

« Last post by gregr on October 13, 2026, 02:55:54 PM »

Just to annoy all the cork sniffers who hear with their wallets, the Epiphone Alnico Classic Pro is a damn good pickup which I will gladly listen to from someone who can play well than from someone who spends $200 on a pickup that can’t.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: 36th Anniversary PAF Bridge

« Last post by LPBII on October 13, 2026, 11:33:36 AM »

There's really not much not to like about this pickup. Some would would say the only thing not to like about it it that it's not a VHPAF, but I missed out on that, so I don't know.

It's like a real good vintage PAF clone but with output approaching that of the PAF Pro.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: The AT-1

« Last post by corypheus on October 11, 2026, 01:51:34 PM »

1mohm vol pot really in my experience likes a treble bleed, even a simple one, since as the volume goes down the sound turns darker at a higher rate than with lower resistance volume pots.

I’ll take this a step further and say that if you’re interested in preserving top-end chime with a treble bleed cap (say ~180pF with a 500k control), you may be better off with a 1M pot (with 100pF). The reason being is you increase the high frequency load on the pickup as you decrease the volume.

Pretty much fully agreed on that, as it mimics my experience as well.