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Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Pearly Gates for Strat vs Seymour Duncan Vintage Hot Stack Plus (STK-S7)
Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Pearly Gates for Strat
bridge Strat single-coil
74 match
low confidence
Seymour Duncan Vintage Hot Stack Plus (STK-S7)
bridge Strat single-coil
Compared with the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Pearly Gates for Strat, the Seymour Duncan Vintage Hot Stack Plus (STK-S7) has an Alnico V magnet (punchier, more aggressive).
Specs side by side
differs marks specs where they part ways| Spec | Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Pearly Gates for Strat | Seymour Duncan Vintage Hot Stack Plus (STK-S7) |
|---|---|---|
| DC resistancediffers | 11.4k | 11.97k |
| Inductancediffers | not measured | 5.21 H (compiled) |
| Magnetdiffers | Alnico 2 | Alnico 5 |
| Coil | Hum-cancelling | Hum-cancelling |
| Resonant peakdiffers | — | 4.5 kHz (Seymour Duncan's own test load) |
| Bass (tone chart)differs | no chart | 7 / 10 |
| Mids (tone chart)differs | no chart | 5 / 10 |
| Treble (tone chart)differs | no chart | 5 / 10 |
| Slot | bridge Strat single-coil | bridge Strat single-coil |
| Traits | high output, soft & warm, noiseless | high output, dark, big low end, noiseless |
How close on each spec
100 means identical on that spec. The score weighs these, and counts anything we couldn't compare as a typical difference. How scoring works
Output
93
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
55
Alnico 2 vs Alnico 5
Coil
100
same coil type
Not compared: brightness, mids, bass (a spec is missing for at least one of them).
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