Re: Staggering humbuckers?
Hi,
Not sure if this helps you. All of my humbucking pickups in the bridge I have turned around, however, this is the good part: I undid the slug coil screws, lifted the slug coil up and using hard pieces of cardboard of differing thicknesses, staggered the slugs (now closest to bridge) as I would if they were screws. High E flat to coil, B a touch higher, G noticeably higher all the way to the low E.
This way, by turning the screws (now closest to neck) I can add "mids" to strings that need it, like the high E, B, lower the screw for my G, as it is loud, and lower the D almost flat, giving it more treble, and for my low A,E, I have the screws lowered BELOW the coil (bobbin), all the way in the case of low E, as my string gauge is 9, 11, 16, 24, 36, 48.
So this helps keep a lot of high end on my thicker (long story) low strings and to be able to adjust the screw bobbin to balance high end: screws level w/slugs, or enhance highs, screws down toward bobbin and in my case, low E, A, screws into the bobbin and on the E, all the way into the bobbin.
This also is a good way to keep high end while not only altering the "mids" with the screws: up or down, but also allows me to keep my high end on the bridge while setting the overall loudness of each string so I get control of overall string to string balance, and now I can play a full chord without my bigger, louder strings from dominating the overall sound of the chord.
I hope you can follow me, but it worked so well I did it to all of my guitars (6) that all have bridge humbuckers. I hope this has some relevance to your post.
SJB
