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Stimer ST48 pickup specs
yves.b
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Hello
I am a pickup maker here in France, and I have a Stimer 48 pickup that needs a rewind job.
I came accross this forum and I was wondering if by any chance some of you may have the dc resistance value of such pickup so that I can better match the original unit.
Thank you in advance for any help
Yves.
I am a pickup maker here in France, and I have a Stimer 48 pickup that needs a rewind job.
I came accross this forum and I was wondering if by any chance some of you may have the dc resistance value of such pickup so that I can better match the original unit.
Thank you in advance for any help
Yves.
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I suggest you to contact Maurice Dupont for this he copied the Stimers after he bought the trademark and tools from Guen owner of Stimer in France.
Maurice will for sure answer such a question with no problem
thanks for the replies and advices, friendly place this seems to be.
As a matter of fact, I've sent an email to Maurice Dupont in the first place but haven't had answer yet.
FWIW, his fist name is Michel and Nicolas Mercadal took over him since 1996 - from what I am aware of - and has been the person who has run Benedetti pickups business ever since.
Interesting point to know the reissues are completly different kind of thing.
Anyway, at the end of the day, I can do this rewind by matching the wire gauge and coil size, though having had some kind of figure would have helped.
Thanks again.
Yves.
I just measured my reissue version of the ST48 and got 9.77k. Hope that helps
-Jason
definitely, this is the kind of info that I was looking for.
Cheers Jason.
This plus keeping in mind what TedGottsegen mentionned about reissue being different, will help me narrowing the winding specs I need to meet.
Thanks !
yves.
I've done the rewind, my customer is pleased with the result.
I've had Maurice on the phone as well who confirmed the info I gathered here and found out with the shape and wire specs of the bobbin.
Anyway, thanks for your help here.
I thought this might be of interest to some of you to see what it looks like inside, so here are some pics. (soory for the french comments, but basically before/after/outside view).
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 779&type=1
Yves.
Old thread, but maybe still read.
Any comments on signal level out of a vintage Stimer 48, compared to say, a magnetic pickup?
I know they are considered by some to be a hi-Z microphone, but they are magnetic and have a volume...
& they plug into most guitar amp input stages...so I am convincing myself of the above.
A friend bought one & uses it with an AER amp & felt like it wasn't waking the amp up enough.
Thank you
Not a Stimer, but I do have and gig with a Kleio, also using an AER. Does the magnetic pickup sound as good through the AER as my little Fender Blues Jr? I think it depends on the tone you're after. I did add an EQ pedal and a Flint reverb, which helped a lot. I also recently purchased a Fairfield Barbershop, thinking it might give the AER a bit more of a tube feel, but it didn't. It did really add a lot withe the Fender (getting that really good electric Django tone at lower volume), but for gigs and going DI, the AER is just too convenient.
I don't think there is such a thing as waking up a solid state amp in the same way we think about tube amps (happy to be corrected and learn something). Totally different.
Yeah there is really no "waking up" a solid state amp like an AER. They're meant to be transparent and just amplify whatever they're fed. It's very different from using tube amps that, intentional or not, impart their own characteristics to the overall sound, especially when pushed hard.
Personally I overwhelmingly prefer using tube amps with GJ guitars when using magnetic pickups. That's the sound. Amps like the AER excel when using piezo systems and microphones though, I really don't like using magnetic pickups into that style of amp.
It's a shame that FB video of the inside of a Stimer by Yves no longer works. That's the geekery stuff I like to look at.