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ainaudioCarvin M22SD
Published on 11/09/24 at 19:56The previous review was perfect. The only I can add is a powerful thick Alnico 5 magnet blade, and the possibility to use 2, 3 or 4 height adjustment screws. 4 wire + shield cabling for flexible commutation. Pickups are coming with preliminary balanced string volumes (pole screws) from the factory (for the right-hand users). The only I can suggest is foil shielding of the pickup coils (grounding, but not shorting the foil loop), it reduces EMI/RFI noise and adds some shunting capacitance - a little bit lowering resonance peak's frequency (provides even fatter tone).00
Diary Of An AxemanCarvin M22SD Review.
Published on 11/08/24 at 01:27These pickups are very hard to find now, since Carvin (now called Keisel) stop making them a few years back, but you can find some (rarely) used on Ebay or Reverb, but at a much higher price, these days .
The pickup is wax potted to surpress microphones/ feedback (squeal) and solidly made to deliver great tone. This pickup was made for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal.
What visually stands out about the M22SD pickup, is that instead of the typical 12 pole pieces, the M22SD has 22 hex pole pieces, that easily adjusts with an allen wrench.
My M22SD was rated at 14.06k ohms, with an Alnico 5 magnet.
Tone wise, this pickup has the treble response of a Bill Lawrence XL-500, especially when …Read moreThese pickups are very hard to find now, since Carvin (now called Keisel) stop making them a few years back, but you can find some (rarely) used on Ebay or Reverb, but at a much higher price, these days .
The pickup is wax potted to surpress microphones/ feedback (squeal) and solidly made to deliver great tone. This pickup was made for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal.
What visually stands out about the M22SD pickup, is that instead of the typical 12 pole pieces, the M22SD has 22 hex pole pieces, that easily adjusts with an allen wrench.
My M22SD was rated at 14.06k ohms, with an Alnico 5 magnet.
Tone wise, this pickup has the treble response of a Bill Lawrence XL-500, especially when you raise the pole pieces close to the strings.
If you lower the pole pieces and raise the entire pickup, the pickup transforms sound similar to a Dimarzio Evolution pickup.
The difference between the Dimarzio Evolution and the Carvin M22SD, is that the M22SD has more defined bass frequencies, cleaner lower mids with more upper mids and more treble than the Evo.
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