Finding The "Sweet Spot"

[gemil]

Hi Room

Can you please help me, how do you find the sweet spot on the pickup?

Ive set my bridge pickup to the advised height 3/32" do you adjust the pickup higher until you hear "Wolftones" and then lower them until the wolftone goes?

Is wolftones when the pickup Warbles?

Also is it best to adjust your pickup using a distortion effect and have all the volume / tone full on guitar?

I appreciate any help cause this is the last thing that I need to do to my guitar after giving it a complete overhaul and rewiring it....


Cheers

Gemil

 

[Low_fidelity2100]

Re: Finding The "Sweet Spot"

Its all about preferance. Just tweak it until you find a place where you like it the best. Its different for everyone, and every guitar. So just have at it.

And also, You should adjust the pickup height with distortion Off, and the volume and tone full on.

Just play around with it and you'll find the perfect spot for YOU eventully. It might take awhile though.

good luck
-edward

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Finding The "Sweet Spot"

Its all about preferance. Just tweak it until you find a place where you like it the best. Its different for everyone, and every guitar. So just have at it.

And also, You should adjust the pickup height with distortion Off, and the volume and tone full on.

Just play around with it and you'll find the perfect spot for YOU eventully. It might take awhile though.

good luck
-edward

+1 to all of that... whenever tewaking with ur tone make sure u have turned off all effects so u get the clean sound and adjust the tone with the clean sound. Fine tuning tweaks can be done later if req and wanted,

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: Finding The "Sweet Spot"

With strat pickups I Like them lower...Away a bit from the strings...I feel there's more overall area for string vibration and less chances of "stratitis".

 

[WICKED LESTER]

Re: Finding The "Sweet Spot"

here is the best bet
set the pup real close(1/16th at both the bass and treble sides)
then make small reductions of height and play on each
when YOU hear the tone you like that is the sweet spot
everyone is different so i cant say to you set it to so and so and you will love it
YOU must find that sweet spot since tone is so personal:beerchug:

 

[dd12939]

Re: Finding The "Sweet Spot"

Don't forget you can play with the screw pole heights too, assuming it's a humbucker. I neglected this fact for a long time and was missing out on some better tone.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Finding The "Sweet Spot"

+1 to everyone who says adjust until you are happy
-1 To Lester's "Set it close" philosophy

While the spot varies based on both your ears and the pup - The "sweet spot" is more likely to be slightly farther- not closer. The only reason for going maximum closeness is to push every bit of output possible into a preamp tube. Which seems kinda silly these days- with mondo gain amps, turbo charged pups, and nuclear stompboxes. I call sweet the point where I get maximum full TONE without losing output or sustain. And anyone who's opinion I have ever respcted in thismatter has said the same thing. Too close sucks for both tone and sustain! But try try it for yourself - it only takes a few minutes with a screwdriver

Damn you Lester! Stop steering the kiddies down the path of the dark side - meaning actives like EMG with black covers - where any signal gets pre-processed into tonal white-bread:joke:

 

[WICKED LESTER]

Re: Finding The "Sweet Spot"

+1 to everyone who says adjust until you are happy
-1 To Lester's "Set it close" philosophy
Damn you Lester! Stop steering the kiddies down the path of the dark side - meaning actives like EMG with black covers - where any signal gets pre-processed into tonal white-bread:joke:

:wave: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

actually i love the duncan distortion right now more than anything:smack:
the emgs are only in that one guitar cause i needs to keep her stock
i prefer the DD to the 81 overall:bigeyes:

yeah i agree you should probably set it far from the strings then gradually bring it up but my way it starts mean then tames as you lower it:laugh2: :beerchug:

 

[frehley]

Re: Finding The "Sweet Spot"

:laugh2: I agree with Wicked Lester about the DD sounding better than the EMG 81.
I put my Full Shred in the neck and my Distortion in the bridge of my Les Paul custom again and removed the 81/60 EMG's I had in there and now it sounds like a Les Paul again. Imagine that.