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Seymour Duncan Vintage Flat (SSL-2) vs Seymour Duncan Vintage Staggered (SSL-1)

Seymour Duncan Vintage Flat (SSL-2) pickup
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Seymour Duncan Vintage Staggered (SSL-1) pickup
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Compared with the Seymour Duncan Vintage Flat (SSL-2), the Seymour Duncan Vintage Staggered (SSL-1) has a brighter top end.

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecSeymour Duncan Vintage Flat (SSL-2)Seymour Duncan Vintage Staggered (SSL-1)
DC resistancediffers6.6k6.5k
Inductancediffersnot measured2.63 H (measured, 1 reading)
MagnetAlnico 5Alnico 5
CoilSingle coilSingle coil
Resonant peakdiffers9 kHz (Seymour Duncan's own test load)10 kHz (Seymour Duncan's own test load)
Bass (tone chart)5 / 105 / 10
Mids (tone chart)3 / 103 / 10
Treble (tone chart)9 / 109 / 10
SlotStrat single-coilStrat single-coil
Traitsvintage output, bright, scooped midsvintage output, bright, scooped mids

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
98
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
100
both Alnico 5
Coil
100
same coil type
Brightness
70
tone charts on the same scale
Mids
100
tone charts on the same scale
Bass
100
tone charts on the same scale

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Seymour Duncan Vintage Flat (SSL-2)

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