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Hi
can anyone tell me what the difference is between Rez o matik pickups in the Marvin ,and the Marquee club series,that I have,mine dates back before Barry took over.
Regards
John H

Rez-o-Matik pickups as fitted to original Burns guitars in the 60s were rather like Fender Stratocaster pickups, with a bobbin formed by two fibre boards enclosing and limiting a coil wound around six Alnico magnets acting as polepieces. My understanding is that modern Rez-o-Matiks are made in the same way (though they just don't sound the same - that's a fact).

The cheaper pickups fitted to Marquees use ceramic magnets instead of Alnico. I've played enough guitars to know that pickups powered by ceramic magnets* tend to sound more treble and less warm, with perhaps just little harshness to the tone.

JN

[*Ceramic isn't a total disaster: even some Gibson humbucker models use ceramic magnets. But not the top models such as the Les Paul, 335, etc. It tended to be cheaper things like the Marauder and some of those hideous Gibson solids from the mid-80s.]

Cheers Jim ,I will check next time I put new strings on.

John H

"mine dates back before Barry took over"
John just on question......
The Marvin or the Marquee???

HI Rob
Mine Is the Marquee Club Series, Black, gold fittings and Maple neck, brand new when I bought it last year.
I understand that it had been in the shops warehouse a few years.
John H

Hi John,

Thanks for the swift reply!

Great guitars for the money those Marquees I've two, a greenburst rosewood neck one and a Marquee S in transulant green.
The"before Barry took over"remark,intriges me....to be honest...
Because it was Barry Gibson, who got Burns back from the dead in 92 and that was long before he give us the Marquee.