Re: Long vs Short pokepieces
Thanks, good input
Just an hour ago, I pulled a long polished A2 magnet from a humbucker and replaced it with a short, rough A5. Besides the fact that this humbucker now sounds awesome (which was the sole purpose of the operation) I'm surprised it doesn't require nearly as much staggering as before...
Same guitar, same coils, same pickup height (meaning about the same output), same everything including the pole screws. The only difference is the magnet. Go figure.
Sure the pickup now has a different frequency response, but remember that each pole screw, each string covers up to 2 octaves, hereby overlapping the adjacent strings. So pole screw adjustment is first and foremost about compensating the difference in magnetic pull.
(I don't mind adjusting pole screws, that's the reason they exist...in most buckers..., I just like to better understand why some pickups behave the way they do and what can be done to tune them when required.)
Originally posted by freefrog
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Just an hour ago, I pulled a long polished A2 magnet from a humbucker and replaced it with a short, rough A5. Besides the fact that this humbucker now sounds awesome (which was the sole purpose of the operation) I'm surprised it doesn't require nearly as much staggering as before...
Same guitar, same coils, same pickup height (meaning about the same output), same everything including the pole screws. The only difference is the magnet. Go figure.
Sure the pickup now has a different frequency response, but remember that each pole screw, each string covers up to 2 octaves, hereby overlapping the adjacent strings. So pole screw adjustment is first and foremost about compensating the difference in magnetic pull.
(I don't mind adjusting pole screws, that's the reason they exist...in most buckers..., I just like to better understand why some pickups behave the way they do and what can be done to tune them when required.)
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