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Old 10-19-2013, 09:50 PM
zabdart zabdart is offline
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Boy, you'd really need an electrician or somebody well-versed in circuit design (which I'm not) to explain this all to you. Basically, neither are all amps created equal (an obvious statement), nor are all guitar pickups. The circuit design of your specific amp is going to effect how the amp handles the signal your guitar's pickups generate, and the variables are as numerous as they are great. The design of your well-known Fender combo amps went through any number of changes through the "tweed" years, the "blackface" years, the "silverface" years and the current years, and this went way beyond how many watts they could produce and handle. On the Fender Twin, for example, the circuit itself was redesigned at least three times to my knowledge.
Likewise, there are all kinds of variables regarding pickups -- not just the obvious single-coil vs. double-coil design, including the number of turns of wire around the coil, the type of magnets used and high-output vs. low-output design. Gibson, for example, has used at least three different designs of mini-humbucking pickups on its guitars, and each design produces subtly different sonic effects.
So, the answer to your question is a long and complicated one.
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