"Pickup Break-in" Any truth here??

[hydro]

Re: "Pickup Break-in" Any truth here??

This.





Although I think it is possible to mildly degauss your magnets through playing- here's my suggestion for menga on how he could prove it conclusively to us all:
1) First of all, a regular gaussmeter won't be precise enough, so you'd do best to take the before-and-after readings using a hospital MRI machine.
2) String your guitar with extra heavy strings made of pure magnetite (and for Heaven's sake don't forget to make sure all your control knobs are old growth hardwood).
3) Choose a place where the ley lines cross and naturally amplify orgone energy and cosmic rays, like the center of Stonehenge or that spot twenty feet above the top of the Great Pyramid.
4) Carefully align your instrument perpendicular to magnetic North and be sure to hold it perfectly motionless within the Earth's field while you play.
5) Play heavy power chords 24 hours a day for six hundred and sixty six days, six hours, six minutes and seventeen seconds.
6) Be sure to report your test results here on the forum after you have measured them.

I tried all this stuff and I still can't hear a difference. Probably because I'm deaf as a post...

[GilmourD]

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Unfortunately for you we are well aware of the workings of the fender factory and just what goes on inside there. Many of us also make our own instruments from scratch, so are well aware of the time and effort it takes to get things 'just right'.
Maybe you should confine these sort of posts to Harmony Central, where your bluster might be believed rather than looked on with pitying sadness.

No, even at HC we knew that was total BS.

Yes, I'm a long time member of what was once HC and is now a graveyard.

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[AlexR]

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^ Really, so its not really going on there anymore?

What happened? Did people move onto other forums or did it get (gulp) trolled to death

[GilmourD]

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^ Really, so its not really going on there anymore?

What happened? Did people move onto other forums or did it get (gulp) trolled to death

You don't know?

HC management ran it into the ground by "upgrading" the forum with completely inappropriate forum software packages three times. It was so unworkable that everybody left.

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[hydro]

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I never joined HC but used to browse it often for gear reviews and technical info. At some point I noticed that search engine hits stopped taking me anywhere useful and then I just gave up on them.

[allbutromeo]

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They're both the same assembly line guitar made of the same cheapest, easily obtained hardwoods Leo Fender could obtain. There is no magic, no voodoo. It's a utilitarian design made for working musicians. There is no justification for a $3,000 mark up because a luthier hand filed the frets and signed the back of the headstock. But it's sure impressive hanging on the wall of the man cave. Do you guys frame the receipt?

[AlexR]

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You don't know?

HC management ran it into the ground by "upgrading" the forum with completely inappropriate forum software packages three times. It was so unworkable that everybody left.

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No, I was a bit like hydro, in the fact that I got sent there for searches for a while. After I got onto here, strat talk and MLP I essentially didn't visit HC as the folks in the new forums just seemed more knowledgeable on the whole

[GilmourD]

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No, I was a bit like hydro, in the fact that I got sent there for searches for a while. After I got onto here, strat talk and MLP I essentially didn't visit HC as the folks in the new forums just seemed more knowledgeable on the whole

I'll admit that I never really ventured outside of the Electric Guitar subforum much. HCEG, as an entity by itself, wasn't actually very different from this place. The rest of the forum could be a bit scary.

[Edgecrusher]

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I'll admit that I never really ventured outside of the Electric Guitar subforum much. HCEG, as an entity by itself, wasn't actually very different from this place. The rest of the forum could be a bit scary.

Hahahah I used to love the HCAF... I was well entrenched in that place pre moderation days....

[jtees4]

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Your original judgement was correct. Pure BS.

[treyhaislip]

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We're not talking about a brand new Hemi here. The only "break-in" that happens in gear that I know of are speakers, tubes and wood. Especially on acoustics for the wood but there is a good chance the wood of an electric gets broken in a bit too according to how you play. I certainly have one chambered black korina LP from Warmoth that has gained a warmer bottom end over the years as one example.

Pickups? No. Sure, the magnet changes over many, many, many years very slightly... that's about it. I have an old Alnico II Pro neck humbucker. There could be many reasons why it sounds smoother and slightly different than a brand new one but it is not so far off that you couldn't recognize that it is an A2P.

+1 to acoustics, with the small exception of Cedar which doesn't seem to "age" in that the tone is consistent from year 1 thru year whatever.

For pickups, I have heard a ton about it and how they get better with age but I don't have any experience with pickups getting better over time. Here are two articles (1) & (2) by Bill Lawrence on Magnets and Aging that I thought were some good reads.

[GilmourD]

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Hahahah I used to love the HCAF... I was well entrenched in that place pre moderation days....

Oh, there was always moderation... Just some subforums were better moderated than others. We had The Eristic, MaziBee, and Frets99 in HCEG. Now they've all basically disappeared, sadly... Frets was the king of getting nice guitars for almost no money and Mazi always had gorgeous pics of his guitars.

But, yeah, we HCEGers would have called BS on just about all the articles by the guy linked to in the OP. Snake oil didn't sit well with us.

[sosomething]

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If there's a particular number of times I can hit myself in the head with a hammer so that a Mexican Fender sounds and plays identical to me as a Masterbuilt 1-off, I wish somebody would tell me so I don't overshoot it.

[GilmourD]

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If there's a particular number of times I can hit myself in the head with a hammer so that a Mexican Fender sounds and plays identical to me as a Masterbuilt 1-off, I wish somebody would tell me so I don't overshoot it.

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In a row.

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[sosomething]

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In a row.

Ball peen or claw?