Well I dont know the first thing about making pickups from scratch other than it involves winding wire around a magnet.
Pretty funny.
But I've driven cars my whole life and never built an engine.
I've met quite a few pick-up builders and hung out with them, talked about it. Intersting people, as a group. It seems to be a rather mysterious and inexact science done to exacting standards by some, and with a lot of mojo and luck by others. Depends on who you talk to. For me, I'm a player. If I plug in and like the tone, its a good pickup. Simple?
Muddy played a tele late in his carreer when he went electric. I think they were regular tele single coils.
Kirk is a strat guy. I find his tones very similar to Ry Cooders. I'm pretty certain Ry was a big influence, but I leave that for Kirk to say- I hear a lot of Ry and Lowell George influence on his Cd.
Ry uses alot of off-beat stuff for his tones. Not your typical humbucker or single-coils. Also a lot of studio compression. Ry is much more the studio guy it seems to me. I find his tonal palette is very diverse depending on what era and CDs you are listening to.
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