Pickup ohms relation to output level

[gearhed289]

I wonder if anyone might have some insight into this. Just some minor obsessing... With Alembic pickups, does a higher reading yield more output volume? I recently sold a handful of pickups, and had measured them all to illustrate what the purchaser would be receiving, so that got me thinking...

[adriaan]

The pickups are low impedance, so the ohm readings should be lower than those of most regular pickups. Higher ohmage is usually associated with hotter pickips. Besides that, and going by demos i've heard from people who bypassed the preamp, running the Alembic pickups as a passive system, it is better to stick with the intended setup with an onboard preamp, because without one they will sound pretty anaemic.

[gearhed289]

Yeah, I definitely wouldn't try to run them without a proper preamp. My assumption has been that differences in meter readings between Alembic pickups would have far less effect on output level than those in a passive system.