What Bill has been working on these days

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editorjuno	What Bill has been working on these days		Lead	[-]
Posts: 197 Wed, Jun 18, 2008 18:54:11 FIB Torero Humilde	Tags : None Bill has been in an r&d frenzy so intense that there are days I can't even get him to talk on the phone -- but it's been worth it, because his "mini-coil" single coil project is nearing completion, and our good friend Arlo West has posted video demo featuring the Tele prototypes: Bill Lawrence "MINI COIL" NAMM 2008 by Arlo West Arlo will bring his beautiful "Dalmore" Tele with the "mini-coil" prototypes installed when he joins Bill and Becky at the upcoming NAMM show in Nashville. Enjoy!
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handsplayingbutterfly		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 168 Thu, Jun 19, 2008 01:05:27 Bronze Member	Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, and to Arlo for playing. I thought he was going to implement this concept into current designs, not make new ones. Very cool - low inductance, (virtually) no noise, predictably tunable with capacitors, immune to guitar cables' capacitance, "loud", etc etc. Part 2 (distortion): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17YQk9mLTM I'm sure we'll hear more about these before too long edit: Also, I'm surprised to see the adjustable pieces. Will these be under the Keystone brand? Last Edited By: handsplayingbutterfly Thu, Jun 19, 2008 03:34:32. Edited 1 time.
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nocaster		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 18574 Thu, Jun 19, 2008 12:26:00 The Big FIBer	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17YQk9mLTM i feel the weight of the world on my shoulder; as i'm gettin older ya'll people gets colder most of us only care about money-makin; selfishness got us followin the wrong direction wrong information always shown by the media; negative images is the main criteria infecting the [people's] minds faster than bacteria; [peeps] wanna act like what they see in the cinema
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editorjuno	It should be noted...	#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 198 Thu, Jun 19, 2008 20:33:51 FIB Torero Humilde	...that the circuit Arlo is using is tuned very bright -- one of the great virtues of these new pickups is that depending on the circuit (especially cap values) they can be tuned to an extremely wide variety of tones, which is barely even hinted at when Arlo brings in the Q-Filter. Bill will post another demo after he returns from NAMM.
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fuzzy beard		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1602 Thu, Jun 19, 2008 23:29:43 Contrib. Gold Charter Member Wilde Tech	This is just brilliant!
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handsplayingbutterfly		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 174 Thu, Jun 19, 2008 23:39:56 Bronze Member	I've noticed Arlo tends to keep his guitar sounds bright in general, when I've heard him. Nothing wrong with that! I'm wondering what speakers he's using. editorjuno, can you tell us anything else about this design?
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editorjuno		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 200 Fri, Jun 20, 2008 21:10:47 FIB Torero Humilde	I'm sure Bill and I will be working on a technical description after NAMM, but here's a photo of Arlo's prototype bridge pickup which nicely shows the very narrow winding space and unusual multi-component magnetic structure. The magnet wire is extremely fine and magnetism is provided by two neodymium bars. All this will be well hidden in the production model(s), of course.
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nocaster		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 18592 Fri, Jun 20, 2008 23:34:07 The Big FIBer	> "I'm sure Bill and I will be working on a technical description after NAMM" It's the non-technical description I'm after, ie, What's the point? What's the advantage? What's the benefit? For as you say, all the pretty wire and ugly magnets will be covered in the production example, so they'll look like a regular pickup to the untrained eye. Something like this, which is based wholly on assumption: Announcing Mini-Coil Guitar Pickups by Legendary designer, Bill Lawrence... The argument over whether noiseless single coils sound like true single coils is relegated to the past... Our new noiseless single coils are true single coils... Our revolutionary Mini-Coil design is as a resistant to hum as Seth Lover's dual-coil humbuckers, but there's only one coil [so, the first benefit is obvious: a true single coil that bucks the hum] Not only that, they have the widest dynamic range of any pickup on the market, which means x... They can be readily tweaked to the customer's preferences... And the detrimental effects of regular instrument cables is minimised... You can also see that they have adjustable pole pieces, which enables the pickups to match the fretboard radius of any guitar, and be fine-tuned to suit the player's string choice... etc i feel the weight of the world on my shoulder; as i'm gettin older ya'll people gets colder most of us only care about money-makin; selfishness got us followin the wrong direction wrong information always shown by the media; negative images is the main criteria infecting the [people's] minds faster than bacteria; [peeps] wanna act like what they see in the cinema
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Posts: 18593 Fri, Jun 20, 2008 23:48:24 The Big FIBer	And if my assumptions are correct, with regard to resistance to hum, and based on the fact that the internals will be covered up, I wonder about the name. Yes, the coils are smaller than normal, but smaller coils will be naturally interpreted as lower output/power, which I know is not the case here, but that would be something potentially negative that the Mini name invokes that requires explaining away. So, if they are humbucking, why not have a name that makes you think about that? I'm thinking, "Mono-Coil", because someone's going to wonder what's different about a mono coil and a single coil, to which the answer would simply be that the mono-coils are true single coils that are as hum-resistant as regular dual-coil humbuckers. The name is vanilla, but doesn't invoke something potentially negative for most players, like Mini-Coil might, even though Mini-Coil more accurately describes the most obvious (unseen) design feature. Anyway, that's just how I see it. i feel the weight of the world on my shoulder; as i'm gettin older ya'll people gets colder most of us only care about money-makin; selfishness got us followin the wrong direction wrong information always shown by the media; negative images is the main criteria infecting the [people's] minds faster than bacteria; [peeps] wanna act like what they see in the cinema
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nocaster		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 18594 Fri, Jun 20, 2008 23:52:18 The Big FIBer	Oh, and I don't think Arlo's Freudian (?) slip of calling them micro coils helped my perceptions, either. Smaller isn't always best. i feel the weight of the world on my shoulder; as i'm gettin older ya'll people gets colder most of us only care about money-makin; selfishness got us followin the wrong direction wrong information always shown by the media; negative images is the main criteria infecting the [people's] minds faster than bacteria; [peeps] wanna act like what they see in the cinema
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George Jetson.telrayoilcanadd...	What's in a name?	#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 10 Sat, Jul 12, 2008 12:15:14	I'll throw in my 2¢. When I first saw "mini-coil" I was excited that Bill was working on a new mini-humbucker design. This is a very underserved market, but that's another story. Mono-coil sounds too much like "monocle" and I think of Mr. Peanut or the inspector from Young Frankenstein.. I'm no marketing guru, but how about "slim coil" as in the slim coil for a fat sound. People might just start calling them "slims", easier than the mouthful of mono-coil or the confusing mini-coil. "Keystone Slim", sounds like a desperado... Whatever you call them, the sounds on those demo videos are impressive. I'd even consider pulling out the broadcaster/twisted tele combo in my Baja for those. I think you should also point people there when they want to know "what exactly does the Q filter do?" So many choices, so many guitars... wait, reverse that. Last Edited By: George Jetson Sat, Jul 12, 2008 12:30:29. Edited 1 time.
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fuzzy beard		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1648 Wed, Jul 16, 2008 00:36:05 Contrib. Gold Charter Member Wilde Tech	George Jetson wrote: "Keystone Slim", sounds like a desperado... Why not Wilde Slim .....I'd very much like to get my hands on a strat set, whatever the name will be!
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Posts: 18776 Wed, Jul 16, 2008 02:49:28 The Big FIBer	Fatboy Slims i feel the weight of the world on my shoulder; as i'm gettin older ya'll people gets colder most of us only care about money-makin; selfishness got us followin the wrong direction wrong information always shown by the media; negative images is the main criteria infecting the [people's] minds faster than bacteria; [peeps] wanna act like what they see in the cinema
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