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Is there a difference between using a bar magnet with ferrous metal pole pieces and using magnetic pole pieces?
Magnetic poles vs Bar magnets?
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Re: Magnetic poles vs Bar magnets?
Indeed.
Polepiece magnets are quite biting in tone.....they have a sizzle or sting you just cannot get from a bar mag + polepieces. The Wide Range humbucker like on original 70's Teles is a prime example of a humbucker like that. Then take a p90 and change it to pole mags and you have a tonal shift to something like an overwound strat pickup.
Indeed.
Polepiece magnets are quite biting in tone.....they have a sizzle or sting you just cannot get from a bar mag + polepieces. The Wide Range humbucker like on original 70's Teles is a prime example of a humbucker like that. Then take a p90 and change it to pole mags and you have a tonal shift to something like an overwound strat pickup.
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Re: Magnetic poles vs Bar magnets?
Oh yeah! The Stag Mag is a humbucker designed like 2 singles slammed together. It splits wonderfully, but when both coils are on, it doesn't sound like a traditional humbucker. Either does the WRHs out there. Everything, and I mean everything, in a pickup affects the sound. Change one thing and everything changes. Changing the magnet from bar to poles is about as radical as you can get.
Oh yeah! The Stag Mag is a humbucker designed like 2 singles slammed together. It splits wonderfully, but when both coils are on, it doesn't sound like a traditional humbucker. Either does the WRHs out there. Everything, and I mean everything, in a pickup affects the sound. Change one thing and everything changes. Changing the magnet from bar to poles is about as radical as you can get.
