tri-sonic pickups in marquee

[Bill Bowley]

'Roach,

Aha, so therin lies my misguidance regarding Trisonics - I saw a few early Burns around with Trisonics in the early days (Vista-Sonics)but never heard them really until I played a 'sample' build BURNS Brian May Red thing three years ago, but it was through a Traynor amp.

[geoff1711]

I'm not sure about this, and somebody will probably put me right but.........

I think the magnetic field runs in a different direction on these pickups, unless the magnets are made in a long bar with it's polarity running from one end to the other about 3" X 1/2" and slices of about 1/4" cut off then the field runs horizontally under the strings rather than vertically.

Now given that different magnetic materials in regular single coils give different sounds, turning the field through 90 degrees and enclosing it in a metal case will certainly make a difference, and the wider the pickup will make it's sound more rounded.

A P90 is a single coil pickup but it's characteristics in build design and sound is completely different and the TriSonics are more like narrow P90s than the single coil pickups originally designed by Fender.

Geoff