How Does Pick-up Height Affect Your Tone? |
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Feb 3 2008, 02:57 PM
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It quite depends of what kind of tone/attack you want.
Higher the pickup the more aggressive and with attack sound will be, put it lower and you'll get smoother and softy sound. -------------------- Youtube
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Feb 3 2008, 03:02 PM
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It's a matter of balance. The lower yo get the less vibration of the string you get picked up form the magnet, and it sounds thin. If you go higher, the sound is more powerful, but if you go too high, again the thin sound appears, but this time different frequencies cutoff. The goal is to hit the sweet spot by trial and error, and to balance the output of all your pickups nicely.
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Feb 3 2008, 06:41 PM
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You're welcome.
 Just try few settings/combinations and see the results, may ears be your final judge. 
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Feb 3 2008, 06:42 PM
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bump
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Feb 3 2008, 07:28 PM
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This post has been edited by botoxfox: Apr 22 2011, 03:46 PM |
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Feb 3 2008, 11:18 PM
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supposed to get more sustain if u get the pickups further away from the strings?
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Feb 4 2008, 12:04 PM
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QUOTE (kevin-riff-after-riff @ Feb 3 2008, 11:18 PM)  supposed to get more sustain if u get the pickups further away from the strings? Opposite,to get more sustain you have to put it closer. You might get some frequencies too boosted so choice is yours. It's all compromise,sort of marriage. 
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Feb 4 2008, 12:25 PM
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I think what Kevin meant is that if you got the humbuckers to close to the strings you can suffer from string pull, which would cost you sustain. I don't know how big this effect really is though.
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Feb 4 2008, 12:28 PM
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QUOTE (Mr T @ Feb 4 2008, 12:25 PM) I think what Kevin meant is that if you got the humbuckers to close to the strings you can suffer from string pull, which would cost you sustain. I don't know how big this effect really is though. You mean if string touches pickups when ringing heavily? That'd cost you sustain,that's for sure. -------------------- Youtube
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Feb 4 2008, 12:35 PM
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It's about the magnetic force the pickups have on your strings, not the actual touching of the strings.
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Feb 4 2008, 12:37 PM
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QUOTE (Mr T @ Feb 4 2008, 12:35 PM) It's about the magnetic force the pickups have on your strings, not the actual touching of the strings. Oh yeah!! If pickup is some heavy humbucker then having it too close might affect the sustain. I didn't understand,my bad.
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Feb 4 2008, 12:45 PM
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No problem.
I don't really have any real experience with adjusting pickup heights myself though, so I don't really know how big the effect is. But I read somewhere that it will also affect how your string moves right above the pickup, which would result in another movement there then on other parts of the string. And that should sound pretty bad. -------------------- Roland Cube 30; Toneport GX; Cort kx1; Ibanez RG1570; Ibanez EW35ABE-NT http://www.last.fm/user/Mr_T83 |
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Feb 7 2008, 12:37 AM
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It is true that sustain of the strings is shortened with the smaller distance between the pickup and the strings, naturally, because of the string pull. But this difference in sustain is barely perceptual. With the guitar with one hum, it is too small to make a difference. On a guitars with 3 hums there is some audible string pull issues but that's small potatoes too. There's an old chinese one - The one who wants sustain - gets sustain.
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