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Old 08-09-2008, 12:46 AM
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D sonic = Single Coil + "Lipstick" pickup?


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 .
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Old 08-09-2008, 12:57 AM
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Re: D sonic = Single Coil + "Lipstick" pickup?


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.
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Old 08-09-2008, 01:15 AM
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Re: D sonic = Single Coil + "Lipstick" pickup?


Can you give me any more details on this? I like knowing things ^_^.
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Old 08-09-2008, 01:31 AM
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Re: D sonic = Single Coil + "Lipstick" pickup?


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.

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