pickup magnet materials/types

[walters]

Re: pickup magnet materials/types

Well thanks alot for helping me out instead of not helping me out
thats not very nice because people like me need help with information
i didn't do anything wrong so i u must have a problem and issues with people that have questions or maybe im to smart for u beyond the scope of your education but u really to get off your horse man and stop harassing me and my threads

 

[Rev Donzo]

Re: pickup magnet materials/types

repeatedly ask the same questions over and over, ignore all the advice given,

 

[Jester700]

Re: pickup magnet materials/types

Walters,
Wow. I'm not sure what happened here. But here's some basic advice:
Don't try to get all the answers in one place. There's a LOT of info and many people have typed it out at one time or another. But a month later, another new person comes & asks the same thing. So it helps if you do 2 things:
1) Be patient. You'll know a LOT in a short amount of time if you're interested, and
2) Become very good at forum and Google searches.

Before asking basic questions that have long answers, read ALL of Duncan's FAQ questions. Get a cup of tea (or a beer, or...), settle in, and just READ. Much of it will go over your head or be of no interest, but you can skip over that stuff. And you'll pick up a LOT. Search the old forum posts - that is a GREAT feature. Then go looking on Google. Learn about boolean search techniques. This will make your whole net experience better.

You'll learn a lot about magnets, and also that a lot of it isn't cut & dried. There is no "magnet EQ" - very different sounding pickups use the same magnets. It's really a mix of magnet, amount of coil wire, gauge of coil wire, type of wind, etc. On humbuckers that are even more variables, with the effects of uneven coils, etc. Then there are noiseless single coils.

Welcome to the world of pickups.

 

[Jester700]

Re: pickup magnet materials/types

So, some basic info.
Someone was right above - Fender used A5 in most of the Strat & Tele guitars from 1954-now. There are exceptions in the early ones and some later experiments, but pretty much "Fender=A5".

No magnet really is the sole cause for "twang". That word usually mean "telecaster clean bridge sound". Is that what YOU mean? If so, the tele is a strange bird and the sound comes from many things - a big single coil pickup with A5 magnet, a steel plate below it, mounted at an angle, inside a steel bridge. And perfectionists like it to be a swamp ash guitar with maple fretboard & brass saddles.