uncovered pickups paired with covered pickups?

[revolution]

Re: uncovered pickups paired with covered pickups?

Old Ibanez Super 70s NEED the brass covers to tone down that piercing high end. I learned the hard way by popping off a cover and putting it in the bridge position of an LP...screeeech!

 

[allbutromeo]

Re: uncovered pickups paired with covered pickups?

If this was anymore zombie, it'd be on The Walking Dead. I did chuckle a bit though when I read the second post. Around that time I was some kid in a punk band playing an Epiphone SG with an uncovered SD in the bridge (either a 59b or possibly after I put the Demon in) and a stock neck pickup. And while I'm sure it wasn't me it made me wonder. As far as why I did it, I was told when I bought the guitar from a high school friend that the bridge pickup was dead, so I pulled the stock one and put in the 59b that I had pulled out of a different guitar a year or so earlier to make room for actives. Turned out that the stock pup was fine, but the switch needed repaired. I didn't really use the neck pup and didn't have the spare money to buy one so I left the stocker there, and it kind of reminded me of the Mark Tremonti PRS

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: uncovered pickups paired with covered pickups?

All of my guitars with humbuckers have nickel covers.

My two Custom 22's have nickel covered Dragon II's.

My two SE Singlecuts have nickel covered Pearly Gates.

And my ES-335 has nickel covered Tom Holmes humbuckers.

My tastes have changed since 1970 when I used to always remove the covers on my Gibson guitars to get more drive and prescence.

At the time there were no uncovered replacement pickups. That industry was still a few years off.

Anyway, "why" they sound different isn't really important.

The only proof needed is the experience of trying a pickup both ways and seeing for yourself.

Even then, there will probably be some who for whatever reasons don't hear that difference.

But I can and I believe most of us can.

 

[Mincer]

Re: uncovered pickups paired with covered pickups?

Wow, this is really old!

Id say it probably started because someone, somewhere saw Mr Famous Rock Star with that, and thought that was the key to their sound, and it started. To be fair, there is a difference, but it is slight- so slight that many people might forget by the time they put everything back together and string it up.