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deacci · October 2014

John,

sorry for the delay responding to your post, I really need to improve my social media invlovement skills

Yes they are like the P1's you have only better..... When your P1's were made, about 1 out of every 10 sets had something just that little bit special and I wanted to be able to reproduce that every single time. you will find some detail about how that was achieved on the website. Although I think you got one of the 10% anyway. Back in those days I might have wound 5 or 6 pickups to get a set I was happy selling. After 2 years of that I simply had to find another way !

The offer is now extended and prices reduced to levels that should have me locked up, if not in an asylum, then definately in the workshop making lots of pickups.

Declan
Deacci Guitar Pickups
www.deacci.com

Catthan · October 2014

Declan,

I really wish you good luck, I like it when builder's try to put some science behind the "mojo" and make it consistent.

From what I read it can be difficult for a new builder to prove that they have smth new, different and/ or improved to offer; specially with humbuckers.

Good luck with your patent application too, please post some info when smth is available online.

You can also try the les paul forums if you haven't already.

Just be careful of the passionate PAF purists...

Unfortunately I don't have anything that needs HBs atm but I'll keep you in mind for the future.

carlos · October 2014

Hi, what does the Macha sound like? Any equivalents from more famous pickup builders?

citizen68 · October 2014

I've only played the Vintage Reloaded range George so no personal experience with the Macha as yet - I'd imagine the Macha to have much more power & mids probably whilst retaining the clarity that Deacci is known for.

Hopefully Declan will be along soon to elaborate.

carlos · October 2014

Yes, that'd be great. Without sound samples it's hard to justify £100 (at 50%) on a pickup.

deacci · October 2014

Catthan, thanks for the comments, I pulled the patent application at the beginning of September.
Every time the lawyers had to write a letter it was another £1500 ..... so not for the faint hearted or the almost broke

If someone else wants to copy what I have done then good luck to them working it out, but I wont be feeding the lawyers and the patent office any more LOL !!!

The Macha is my attempt to put together a pickup with the most output I can possibly achieve while retaining a wire gauge of about 42.5 AWG.

George, the price is for a pair of pickups not a single one, and of all the sets I have available, this one is the least tested in the wild, so whoever wants to try them I will be more than happy to work with you and make sure you get something that works well on your guitar, in fact that applies to any pickup purchase

The more wire you put on a pickup the more difficult it becomes to retain clarity, the Macha in my opinion manages to do that, However it isnt designed to play the blues, it will hit the front of your amp pretty hard and will distort and saturate, Notes will sing and sustain forever, while at the same time maintaining a good degree of separation even when you play chords fully overdriven/distorted.

Its an all out hard rock pickup that wants to be played loud and overdriven without ever turning to mud. You will however need another guitar to play the blues.

Kieran, hows your schedule for doing a demo clip of the Macha ?

citizen68 · October 2014

Declan - give me the guitar with Macha's installed & it'll be no longer than a coupla days - will I need to dust off the old Metalzone?

Better still - break out the 'Wreck & I'll come up to you \m/

imalone · October 2014

deacci said:

Catthan, thanks for the comments, I pulled the patent application at the beginning of September.
Every time the lawyers had to write a letter it was another £1500 ..... so not for the faint hearted or the almost broke

If someone else wants to copy what I have done then good luck to them working it out, but I wont be feeding the lawyers and the patent office any more LOL !!!

That's a shame, though in theory you could just try and finish it off yourself, the actual patent office fees are much less than you'd spend on lawyers. The only downside would be if the application got granted (and therefore published) but turned out to be flawed later.

carlos · October 2014

Interesting, didn't know it was for a set, apologies.

deacci · October 2014

George, no apology required, in fact thank you, I need to fix the website, I had another look at the macha page and it clearly states one pickup, you were indeed correct !

http://deacci.com/product/pure-power-macha/

John_A · November 2014

Just ordered some, you're practically giving them away, I couldn't resist

citizen68 · November 2014

Which set did you go for John? I've a set of 1st generation 'Ones' & love them in my Edwards..the new ones are even better

John_A · November 2014

citizen68 said:

Which set did you go for John? I've a set of 1st generation 'Ones' & love them in my Edwards..the new ones are even better

Yes, I have a set of P1s in a les Paul, that are my all time favourites, I've tried loads of very expensive pickups, Lollars, Peter Florance, Bare Knuckle etc and the P1s are IMO better than them all. They clean up so sweetly and take on an almost single coil tone with the volume backed off, and controlled musical feedback is so easy with no whistling at all. This time I went for the LP59 2s as I wanted something a bit hotter for an old Ibanez Destroyer that isn't getting gigged a lot because the pickups in it are very microphonic, will let you know what I think when I get them;). For £100 a pair you can't fall off

citizen68 · November 2014

Cool - full report when you get em!

John_A · December 2014

Well, I got my LP59 2s and had a change of plan and I'm going to pop these in a PRS so they've gone back to Declan to get the baseplates changed, Declan offered to do this free of charge, which is well beyond what I would expect, exceptional customer service!

Anyway the other guitarist in the band got a set of LP59 1s for his Les Paul Studio, a fantastic guitar that he chooses to play live despite the fact he has a few posher models available. So with his new pickups in he is a very happy chap indeed, they really do sound pretty much the same as my older version P1s, how these pickups feedback so musically is amazing, no monophonic whistling, even using very high gain, and they totally nail the PAF style sound.

I'm not at all in to the technical details about what makes an authentic PAF pickup, but in terms of how they sound these really are as good as any I've tried, and better than most and that includes a lot of posh USA ones at three times the price.

In summary top pickups and top bloke

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