guitar pickup impedence question

[loctal]

I have many input transformers in my junk box and would like to try one in an amp build. Does anyone know what impedence load a single coil from a strat or P-90 would like to see? Thanks for any help or ideas.

[jjman]

A typical Fender tube amp would present about 1 meg on a "#1" input and 68k on a "#2" input if I understand correctly. The guitar prefers the 1meg.

What would it do in your case? (I use one to flip phase in an effects loop.)

[Structo]

What is an input transformer?

[David Root]

Single coils before they go thru a 250K pot are lowish impedance, but the output impedance of a magnetic pickup is frequency dependent and the math gets pretty complex.

[benoit]

Single coils before they go thru a 250K pot are lowish impedance, but the output impedance of a magnetic pickup is frequency dependent and the math gets pretty complex.

But the complex math only makes life simpler

As to the question about input transformers, we don't use them in guitar amps (at least I've never seen it) but they're used a lot in microphone preamps, DIs, compressors, and the like.