Adding on magnets to a pickup?

[ParadoxV]

Re: Adding on magnets to a pickup?

Some good leads in this demo

This... That tone. Defo leaning towards the black winter but Am still open to more pups. They're still quite expensive in EU being £80-85 pounds. So any other reccs or do I fall back to the KVLT Black winter

Also wondering if anyone could chime in about the nazgul?

But DrNewcenstein, when i added the magnet onto the base-plate one of the coils got super magnetic and the other one was slightly less "magnetic"
Whats up with that?

 

[Gibson 1964]

Re: Adding on magnets to a pickup?

This... That tone. Defo leaning towards the black winter but Am still open to more pups. They're still quite expensive in EU being £80-85 pounds. So any other reccs or do I fall back to the KVLT Black winter

Also wondering if anyone could chime in about the nazgul?

But DrNewcenstein, when i added the magnet onto the base-plate one of the coils got super magnetic and the other one was slightly less "magnetic"
Whats up with that?

Nazgul sounds more aggressive all the time. The black winter is far more versatile. I have heard the BW is higher output, though back to back, the nazgul sounds a bit higher output because it is so aggressive. The Nazgul is a bit of a one trick pony, but it is one heck of a trick. The black winter is my personal favorite all around pickup I have ever used. I can say if you want the BW to be super aggressive, it will be. The nazgul just never quits on the aggression.

 

[ParadoxV]

Re: Adding on magnets to a pickup?

http://www.thomann.de/gb/seymour_duncan_black_winter_bridge_b_stock.htm

Anyone dealt with B-stock gear from Thomann? It has warranty and all. Safe bet or nah?

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Adding on magnets to a pickup?

But 'power' is more than just a strong magnet. All of the power in the world doesn't do anyone any good if the tone is terrible.

Exactly. Mr. Moar Power? Meet Mr. Law Of Diminishing Returns.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Adding on magnets to a pickup?

What does the addition of magnetic spacers do to the field?

Since you're increasing the magnetic field even using them as spacers, I'd say that unless the spacer magnets were actually touching the poles, you're still centering the field lower into the cavity, and not adding to the area the strings pass through. However, since the typical HB magnet is centered between the poles, and touching both on the inside, I'd say it's easy to make the spacer mags on the outside of the poles touch them, thus increasing the field overall, rather than pulling it down.

However, you may also increase string pull.

But DrNewcenstein, when i added the magnet onto the base-plate one of the coils got super magnetic and the other one was slightly less "magnetic"
Whats up with that?

Probably because it was touching the adjustable poles (screws), which are longer than the slugs, and thus the field envelopes them entirely. Even if it wasn't touching the screws directly, if the screws were touching the baseplate and not just passing through oversized holes (gap all around), then the magnet would "charge" the baseplate, and in turn add to the screws' "charge" from the inner magnet, thus amplifying the field only around them, and not affecting the slugs. If the slug coil sounded weaker than before, the baseplate magnet may have been cancelling out the inner magnet's field around the slugs, or shifting its center downward away from the strings.



One thing I wonder about is taking a double-slug HB and replacing the magnet and spacers with a baseplate-wide electro-magnet that was attached to a knob that could adjust the power of the magnet.