D sonic = Single Coil + "Lipstick" pickup?

[Mr.WizardNeck]

I showed my roomie the D sonic and he says its basically that. Having never heard a "lipstick" pickup, I would never know. Any thoughts on it. Also, single coil humbuckers are garbage (according to him). Any comments would be lovely for my next little tech debate with him . I've never heard a D Sonic in person unfortunately .

[Lefty Robb]

Please tell your friend to stop smoking very large amounts of Crack Cocaine and Meth with cough syrup.

A lipstick pickup is a very low output pickup with a completely different magnetic structure and tone.

[Mr.WizardNeck]

Can you give me any more details on this? I like knowing things ^_^.

[Lefty Robb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_pickup

They are like a complete 360 from normal pickups, they have a unique tone and look all to there own. You really only see them in Danelectro's. They are really not meant to be played with any real amounts of distortion. I also vaugly remember that pedal steel players used to take these out of danelectros and put them on there pedal steels because they have a very clear and twangy almost metallic sound sound quality to them.