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Seymour Duncan Vintage Staggered (SSL-1) vs Tone Hatch Texas Spirit

Seymour Duncan Vintage Staggered (SSL-1) pickup
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medium confidence
Tone Hatch Texas Spirit pickup
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Tone Hatch Texas Spirit
middle Strat single-coil

We found no spec differences between them worth calling out.

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecSeymour Duncan Vintage Staggered (SSL-1)Tone Hatch Texas Spirit
DC resistancediffers6.5k6.25k
Inductancediffers2.63 H (measured, 1 reading)2.75 H (compiled)
MagnetAlnico 5Alnico 5
CoilSingle coilSingle coil
Resonant peakdiffers10 kHz (Seymour Duncan's own test load)—
Bass (tone chart)differs5 / 10no chart
Mids (tone chart)differs3 / 10no chart
Treble (tone chart)differs9 / 10no chart
SlotdiffersStrat single-coilmiddle Strat single-coil
Traitsvintage output, bright, scooped midsvintage output

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
94
measured inductance
Magnet
100
both 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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Tone Hatch Texas Spirit

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