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Some of you know me as Declan from Japanaxe, now also Declan from RD Pickups. apologies for jumping on the thread, this was not the way I had intended to let the tokai forum know about our new business. (Ned you have an email re advertising)
Firstly we do not do DRY Z Clones. Yes... the VR-P1, and indeed our whole approach to developing our pickups was "initially based on" the DRY Z's in my EGF 1200. This was our yard stick, our marker of quality to meet and beat if you will.
We didn't have a bucket of PAF's to analyse and take apart.. We went for the crazy and somewhat more affordable approach of using our ears, and some back to basics science.
Our intention was to wind some pickups for personal use until we found a formula that really worked.
So, definately NOT a DRY-Z "Clone"...... HOWEVER!!!!
The P1's are in the same ballpark, they differ in that the P1's are naturally a little brighter, this can be EQ'ed back a little to match if thats what you want. The P1's react to your playing in a similar way to the DRY-Zs, notes bloom and sustain in a similar way and they both have a vintage vibe and clarity, .... even on the neck with the tone rolled back.
They share traits, but they have a different charachter.In fact every P1 we wind is a little bit different than the last one we wound as bobbin tension and pattern are delivered by hand. To the best of my knowledge, some of the materials we are using, were never used in DRY-Z or PAF's for that matter.
John, you mentioned publishing specs, we have decided not to do that for various reasons, but mainly as they are meaningless unless we told you the whole complete story, unfortunately that would involve revealing way too much. I will give one example, we don't use 42AWG, we use something very close as it compensates for other non-standard materials we use.
Happy to answer any questions, and as with all our pickups, but judge them on their own merit, not a DRY-Z or PAF reproduction, I am not playing the quality down either..... For anyone that buys a set, If they don't absolutely knock your socks off, then I want you to send them back to me and I will happily refund you, .... no-one has asked for a refund yet!
Thanks for reading folks.
Declan
RD Pickups
Firstly we do not do DRY Z Clones. Yes... the VR-P1, and indeed our whole approach to developing our pickups was "initially based on" the DRY Z's in my EGF 1200. This was our yard stick, our marker of quality to meet and beat if you will.
We didn't have a bucket of PAF's to analyse and take apart.. We went for the crazy and somewhat more affordable approach of using our ears, and some back to basics science.
Our intention was to wind some pickups for personal use until we found a formula that really worked.
So, definately NOT a DRY-Z "Clone"...... HOWEVER!!!!
The P1's are in the same ballpark, they differ in that the P1's are naturally a little brighter, this can be EQ'ed back a little to match if thats what you want. The P1's react to your playing in a similar way to the DRY-Zs, notes bloom and sustain in a similar way and they both have a vintage vibe and clarity, .... even on the neck with the tone rolled back.
They share traits, but they have a different charachter.In fact every P1 we wind is a little bit different than the last one we wound as bobbin tension and pattern are delivered by hand. To the best of my knowledge, some of the materials we are using, were never used in DRY-Z or PAF's for that matter.
John, you mentioned publishing specs, we have decided not to do that for various reasons, but mainly as they are meaningless unless we told you the whole complete story, unfortunately that would involve revealing way too much. I will give one example, we don't use 42AWG, we use something very close as it compensates for other non-standard materials we use.
Happy to answer any questions, and as with all our pickups, but judge them on their own merit, not a DRY-Z or PAF reproduction, I am not playing the quality down either..... For anyone that buys a set, If they don't absolutely knock your socks off, then I want you to send them back to me and I will happily refund you, .... no-one has asked for a refund yet!
Thanks for reading folks.
Declan
RD Pickups