I just bought a set of Seymour Duncan pearly gates humbuckers for my Explorer, Im in the middle of wiring it using their schematic ; 2 push pull volumes/1 tone/3 way toggle. "series/parallel" instead of a coil cut. But even with a coil cut would it make a difference soldering on the nickle covers as there are only holes for the adjustable screw side of the P/U. the slug side would be covered. I dont want to buy covers /solder them on and all that just to find it dosen't work as intended. I,m using CTS ,DP/DT pot switches and soldering on all those tiny wires into all those tiny terminals in the confines of that tiny Explorer control cavity. This is hands down the most difficult wiring job I've ever attempted and I,ve done countless guitar wiring jobs. just wondering if anyone has done the coil cut type of wiring and ran covers on the P/U's and if it's a waste of time if covers are going to be installed.
Do covers make a difference with optional wiring?
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DavidRavenMoon
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Re: Do covers make a difference with optional wiring?
That’s how traditional covers have always been. Only the adjustable screw side has holes.
Seth Lover, who designed the Gibson humbucker didn’t want any holes at all!
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That’s how traditional covers have always been. Only the adjustable screw side has holes.
Seth Lover, who designed the Gibson humbucker didn’t want any holes at all!
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Re: Do covers make a difference with optional wiring?
Covers should make a much of a difference in what a pickup 'hears', holes or not. Some say that without covers, it is a little brighter, but I've split lots of pickups with covers to the slug side, and it works fine.
Covers should make a much of a difference in what a pickup 'hears', holes or not. Some say that without covers, it is a little brighter, but I've split lots of pickups with covers to the slug side, and it works fine.
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Re: Do covers make a difference with optional wiring?
The covers do knock a little high end off due to eddy currents. It doesn’t matter if there are holes or not.
The covers are magnetically transparent, but because they are conductive the magnetic field causes small currents to flow on the cover. These eddy currents produce their own small magnetic fields that oppose the field from the magnet.
That causes a reduction of high frequencies and a flattening of the pickup’s resonant peak.
It’s a small difference, but it was the reason players started taking the covers off starting in the 60s. They look cool but most of the classic humbucker tones came from pickups without the covers.
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The covers do knock a little high end off due to eddy currents. It doesn’t matter if there are holes or not.
The covers are magnetically transparent, but because they are conductive the magnetic field causes small currents to flow on the cover. These eddy currents produce their own small magnetic fields that oppose the field from the magnet.
That causes a reduction of high frequencies and a flattening of the pickup’s resonant peak.
It’s a small difference, but it was the reason players started taking the covers off starting in the 60s. They look cool but most of the classic humbucker tones came from pickups without the covers.
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Re: Do covers make a difference with optional wiring?
My guess is tradition. And you can't get plastic covers to look just like chrome or gold covers.
My guess is tradition. And you can't get plastic covers to look just like chrome or gold covers.
DavidRavenMoon
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Re: Do covers make a difference with optional wiring?
Schaller sells plastic covers. You can find them around.
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Schaller sells plastic covers. You can find them around.
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