Wide range or humbucker

[teleme01]

I have a solid mahogany deluxe tele in route, never experienced wide range, if I go humbucker it will be either seth lover or pearly gates, how would i compare wr to the sl or pg?

 

[supertruper1988]

WRHB as a vintage repro is a cool sound the DCR measures hotter than vintage PAF but the different construction of them makes them sound brighter than a PAF of lesser DCR. They are an interesting sound if you dont have it in your collection they are worth trying IMO.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

WRHBs are their own thing. I love them, but they are quite distinct from PAF tones, as stated above. I captured clips of the Revel WRHBs in my Thinline Tele, they may give you an idea of what they are about:

Revel WRHB Sounds

(Gotta say I kind of miss the feature of the old Forum software that let you embed a SoundCloud player right in a post.)

 

[TBurst Std]

Yep. WRHBs sound NOTHING like a normal PAF style hb.

Think Filtertron minus chime and more Fender clean like.

Less chime, more bell.

 

[TBurst Std]

The driving reason for this is PAF HB style pup uses a bar magnet under the poles and slugs. A WRHB the poles are the actual magnets. Totally different construction. We have even brought the different magnet alloys used then vs largely now.

 

[teleme01]

Still watching the mail box, and thinking out loud, would Jimmy page wiring be usable with wrhb or mostly just a thing with darker hb, would I end up with too much jangle?

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Still watching the mail box, and thinking out loud, would Jimmy page wiring be usable with wrhb or mostly just a thing with darker hb, would I end up with too much jangle?

The phase and series aspects of the JP wiring would be valid, and you may or may not like the results. At a guess, I would expect two WRHBs in series to be more useful than two PAFs in series due to the WRHBs inherently brighter character. And you either like out-of-phase or you don’t… The coil splitting would probably not provide useful results due to the construction of the WRHBs: each coil “sees” all six strings but emphasizes three, so splitting them would probably result in a significant imbalance. My answer there is theoretical though, as I have not tried it…