I'll ask before I bother(JB with 2 ceramics?)

[jeffb1979]

Did a couple sample recordings to compare and pretty close to a distortion, but the distortion has a bit more low end. Anyone ever add a 2nd ceramic magnet?

 

[Mincer]

I think a few people here have experimented with thicker ceramic mags, but I don't know if anyone has tried 2 of them.

 

[jeremy]

are you talking about adding side magnets?

 

[Masta' C]

Yeah, do you mind providing a little more detail about what you've tried already and what you're thinking about doing next? Your post isn't exactly clear and I don't want to make assumptions...

 

[jeffb1979]

are you talking about adding side magnets?

I think so, I ended up stacking two ceramics and sounded like ass. Is this what they do for 3 ceramics in an invader and bw?

 

[Seashore]

The Distortion has one double thickness center magnet. The triple magnet pickups have one center mag, and two smaller spacer magnets on the sides that are oriented to repel the center. I saw an illustration a while ago of how that directs the magnetic field up and out towards the strings, if I can find it again I will post it. But it's all about that magnetic field. If you had them set up to attract one another, the field would be more compact and wouldn't magnetize the strings as much.

I would guess that two stacked magnets would also create a different field than one double-thickness magnet. And remember that the poles of a pickup magnet are the long edges, so if you're stacking the flat sides in a way that sticks them together, what you've actually got is a N-S magnet laying alongside a S-N magnet, not two magnets stacked end to end.

 

[jeffb1979]

The Distortion has one double thickness center magnet. The triple magnet pickups have one center mag, and two smaller spacer magnets on the sides that are oriented to repel the center. I saw an illustration a while ago of how that directs the magnetic field up and out towards the strings, if I can find it again I will post it. But it's all about that magnetic field. If you had them set up to attract one another, the field would be more compact and wouldn't magnetize the strings as much.

I would guess that two stacked magnets would also create a different field than one double-thickness magnet. And remember that the poles of a pickup magnet are the long edges, so if you're stacking the flat sides in a way that sticks them together, what you've actually got is a N-S magnet laying alongside a S-N magnet, not two magnets stacked end to end.

I see, so they have to repeal, I just thew together a mess of 3 neodymium which is 2 on the sides and 1 underneath a ceramic manet in the center. the neodymium aren't wide enough on their own, I already tried that. But the guitar is in C , the pickup is a random artec I started using to experiment with this stuff. The thing was too big I had to tape the whole thing plus with the magnets repealing lol but turned out actually pretty good for drop tuning but I'd have to mess with this stuff some more.