Adding a bar magnet underneath a alnico sc

[stiffneck]

Adding a bar magnet underneath an alnico sc:

Has anyone tried this? (hahah, of course you have) After slaughtering a no name guitar, I removed the bar magnets, and now I'm thinking I can try putting them under different alnico rod pups (leaving the original alnico magnets in place). Will this ever yield good results? I tried, just for fun, to add it to crappy tele neck pup which I found way too weak and muddy. And well, no surprise really, it got stronger, but not really less muddy (though slightly more useful since the difference in volume wasn't as apparent)

Now I'm thinking about trying this on my APTL-1 and my neck/bridge tex-mex strat pups.

Any input? I'd hate to spend time doing this and trying to dial in a tone only to find it just sounds really bad.

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Adding a bar magnet underneath a alnico sc

It tried it once and it seemed to have no effect at all.

 

[Martian]

Re: Adding a bar magnet underneath a alnico sc

It tried it once and it seemed to have no effect at all.

Same here, same results.

 

[stiffneck]

Re: Adding a bar magnet underneath a alnico sc

Hmm, now I'm intrigued!

The pup I was referring to was actually a ceramic bar magnet pup, but all my other pups are alnico rods. Could it really be possible that the bar magnet has so little effect on a pole pup? For me, there was definitely an increase in output, especially bass/lower mids.