vinnie1971
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Is fretboard radius important when buying new pickups?
Slightly off topic, I have Oil City brass knuckle humbucker in an HSH strat. These have 12 individual alnico 5 pole magnets and they are flat. In the middle I have a vintage stagger single coil. The humbuckers when split work just as well as the staggered single coil on my modern radius neck. I would have expected the staggered poles to work better.
My Telecaster has a flatter radius as do my other 2 strats, the tele has flat poles and the other 2 strats staggered poles.
All my strats have had the push the G down and raise high E and B treatment which sorted out the imbalance issues of operpowering G and weak B and high E. apart from that I don't have a preference tone wise but as a finger style player the flat pickups work better. Never knock the poles with my fingers on those.
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Slightly off topic, I have Oil City brass knuckle humbucker in an HSH strat. These have 12 individual alnico 5 pole magnets and they are flat. In the middle I have a vintage stagger single coil. The humbuckers when split work just as well as the staggered single coil on my modern radius neck. I would have expected the staggered poles to work better.
My Telecaster has a flatter radius as do my other 2 strats, the tele has flat poles and the other 2 strats staggered poles.
All my strats have had the push the G down and raise high E and B treatment which sorted out the imbalance issues of operpowering G and weak B and high E. apart from that I don't have a preference tone wise but as a finger style player the flat pickups work better. Never knock the poles with my fingers on those.
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