Setting polepieces

LP82

LP82

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Guitar players with passive pickups - Do you adjust your polepieces for balanced volume on each string? I've seen two methods - One says to match the radius of the fingerboard, and the other advises staggering the polepieces so the Low E is highest, A is lower, D is lower, then G is high, B is lower, high E is lower. And I've seen some players leave them even across the pickup. What do you do, if anything? Just curious.
 
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That second method sounds silly.

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I generally leave them alone... no farther than you can honestly adjust them, can there really be that much of a difference? seriously I'm asking, cuz IDK????
 
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I radius to match the curvature of the bridge/neck. I haven't tried staggering them.
 
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Believe it or not, I saw a YouTube video of a luthier espousing the second method. I was bored and watching set up videos. I've always heard they should match the radius, or be even but not below the bobbin.
 
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I don't think there is any guideline that is any more than that. I can't tell you what my tone is like to your ears or how it sounds to me, not more that I could describe blue to a blind person. Screws, pickup height and action are all things that you adjust to taste, and will vary significantly even day to day on the same guitar.
 
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LP82 said:
Believe it or not, I saw a YouTube video of a luthier espousing the second method. I was bored and watching set up videos. I've always heard they should match the radius, or be even but not below the bobbin.
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Polepiece setting is used to minimize the inherent uneveness of volume between strings in a set, due mostly to the mass of the core.



This is a picture of how they look the polepieces once set in the neck p'up (the picture is actually a bridge p'up, I know) in my Epi ES-339 with a D'Addario 11-52 set.

In the bridge position is a lot less important to set the screws. But in the neck position I consider it paramount.

HTH,
 
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