No, I'm using an analogy to indicate that I think you are both missing the point. ALL those things matter, inductance, capacitance, resistance, etc.
Actually my point was more about context lol! And regarding specifically the resonance frequency. Luijo was absolutely right about capacitance being neglegable but only on a conditional basis - when discussing how a pickup acts as a first approximation of transferring energy from the strings and producing an alternating voltage across a resistive load, but its a very wrong statement if you are making a blanket statement, especially considering a second approximation about its significance to the eq of the pickup, and where the energy gets focused, in which winding capacitance is extremely significant, as inductance as a calculated value by itself can't make the pickup sound like anything. That article he posted does do a very good job of explaining this though.
What would a pickup sound like with a 9h inductance and a 0.1pf winding capacitance? That being a scenario where winding capacitance is truley neglegible. Just what would that sound like?
I mod tube amp circuits. I have thousands and thousands of hours actually in the circuit learning what the affect of this or that is. Everything matters.
Me too! Wanna share some build porn?
As for capacitance, I've had EEs swear to my face that you can't hear a 100pf cap. My response is always the same, which is to pull the largest bill in my wallet out and put it on the table, and say, "wanna bet?". Of course you can hear 100pf, and feel it, easily. Thats the difference between thousands of hours actually doing it, and "I think based on what i read in a book and by best guess that.......".
Well You have to Establish a context for that too to be honest, and not even with just the obvious. The obvious being Say you have a source impedance of 500k (the junction of a two 1M voltage divider with have about this) and you place a 100pf capacitor from that junction to the return (because I hate the term ground) 100pf is very significant, because not withstanding any other phase shifts you get a first order lowpass filter that is -3db at 3.2k. but say you are talking 100 ohms, 100pf won't be "directly" audible in the same context because the filter produced is outside the range of human hearing, and an engineer will take that as a "must be Inaudible" gospel, but psycoacoustics are a bitch that way, and not everything is as cut and dry - switch mode power supplies, although the junk they kick up is at very high frequencies will have an audible effect on a guitar tube amp say which often operates at a pretty narrow frequency range. One thing I do agree with though is that if the effect is real, it can be measured.
