Honestly this is simpler than most make it out to be. You adjust and you listen. When you like what you hear, you're good...

@aaronalcala4706

3 жыл бұрын

right, there really no need for correct adjustments, just do what sounds good😂

@paulchristian5375

2 жыл бұрын

Ayyy I set mine high cause I like the springy twang sound

@Xxmeca421xX

2 жыл бұрын

I'm always adjusting mine. I can't find perfect

@eagleeggs3862

2 жыл бұрын

This is how I do it

@heyjarrod

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but for a lot of guitar players, we enjoy learning the science behind the art. Just makes one that much better/more knowledgeable, creative, and saved a lot of time and money learning from others mistakes. Like someone wrote below, or above here now, we are always tinkering, a lifelong activity. Just getting that screenshot of some of SRV‘s adjustments, and what I gathered from this guy, I had a blast tinkering on my new Strat last night. And I’m looking forward to this winter break to really dialing in a couple of these newer fenders. 🤘🏻🇺🇸🎸

Funny, when you said it sounded muddy, I expected you to lower the bass side, but making it higher actually made it sound clearer. Good tips! Cheers

@RByrne

Жыл бұрын

That was the opposite of what I've been doing, too. I just swapped out my pickguard and didn't really consider pickup heights. Then I plugged it in, and it sounded terrible. Got it set nice now, though!

"They all have different pickup heights because they have different styles... and you're no different!" I thought about this for a while.

@gorcrow

3 жыл бұрын

I came for the tech tutorial, stayed for the philosophizing

@cardbored_

3 жыл бұрын

So if you’re a country boy, your pickup’s height is always much taller than a non country boy. Usually have bigger tires too.

@hellypalli

2 жыл бұрын

So what you thinking about nowwwwww?

@unabonger777

2 жыл бұрын

@@cardbored_ closer to god

I think it was very good that he pointed out that pickup height preferences are a personal thing. People get way to wrapped up In measurements when in reality you need to let your ear tell you when the pickup is the “correct” height.

@craigpimlott204

Жыл бұрын

Same with string heights ..I like a higher string height than fender spec on strats .I find fenders height way too low for me.

@prestige35able

10 ай бұрын

Ive never use any tools, except a tuner. I do everything by sound and feel.

Using a clean setting on the amp might have helped us hear the difference.

@srdjangavran979

3 жыл бұрын

Right...!!!

@EdwoodCA

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed re: doing it on a clean setting. But, I heard him say at 3:25 you should *"...have your amp setup the way you would normally have it"* . Perhaps, he should not have done this tutorial to his personal tastes/needs for his personal guitar, and more for teaching, by using a clean amp, clean setup. [Then, do his personal setup off camera, afterward.]

@dailybaglimit

3 жыл бұрын

@@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252 He is literally being paid to play his guitar in this video 🤦‍♂️ 😂

@dailybaglimit

3 жыл бұрын

@@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252 Clearly that is not the case, he is literally both getting paid, and playing his guitar, but I can see that opinions vary, and perhaps the accuracy of statements made in a troll post is not important to everyone, carry on. Your contribution to the video surely was more helpful in assisting others to adjust their pickups than the contribution of this man.

@trevorpeters4358

3 жыл бұрын

Id want it muddy..

This was an expensive video for me. I liked the sound of his Fernandes so much, I went out and bought one . . .

@auralfury

4 жыл бұрын

they are decent guitars for sure

@mikejamieson4252

4 жыл бұрын

They’re great with a pickup upgrade!!!!! JV guitars 👍👍 🎸

@rogermoore1233

4 жыл бұрын

I had a white one back in the day, awesome guitar !

@normc8169

3 жыл бұрын

I own a '90 Fernandes Strat and upgraded pups with Custom 69. Great guitars

@cardbored_

3 жыл бұрын

Really? It sounded ok at best.

*Come on man... These pickups have been set insanely high ...*

Thanks to your video on setting pickup height, this really has come in handy in getting the best sound from the electric cigar box guitars I build. It's a seeming small detail that can easily get overlooked by those of us who build CBG's, but pays off in huge dividends. Thanks again!

At first I was very puzzled because I was looking up on youtube how to achieve the 'right' height for the pickups not expecting to find all different kind of heights amongst other musicians. Finally I decided to stick to your measurements due to the fact you'r referring to Fender specs. That did it for me. Thx for sharing !

Thank you! This helped me so much! I thought they were fine, and was trying to use eq to shape my sound - but I did a fresh tune up on both my Jaguar and Les Paul and then ran them DI thru an interface, to a pair of studio headphones, and followed this procedure. Ended up putting the very hot pickups in both WAY lower than I ever would have otherwise and wow do they sound good and clean! My Les Paul I never turned up past half volume, and never used both pickups at the same time and now it just sounds good all over (to me).

Actually, due to the way a Fender style single coil pickup is constructed, if the pole pieces, which are the magnets in this style of pickup, are too close to the strings the magnetic field can adversely affect intonation. So going by ear you might think, "hey this sounds great" and then get frustrated when you notice later on a string sounds off on part of the fretboard and you can't seem to get the saddle in a spot where the intonation is right. Lower those suckers, and like magic, you can now intonate your string again.

I'm glad I'm not the only one looking at this and feeling like those pickups are higher than I would ever go for.

@martynsparkes7118

5 ай бұрын

Yeah thats right...best advice ive ever gotten is the Dan Platansky method,as found on youtube,lower them right down and you will find the giutar actually plays better,now aint that funny,then you just tweak your amp/pedals to make up for any volume loss...which will be minimal because the strings can now ring more because the pickup magnets are not interfering with them.

This is such a great tutorial! Good audio, good video, good explanation!

Damned stewmac; measure also in metric !!

@taquito2606

3 жыл бұрын

Just convert it or learn a bit of imperial, it's honestly great for certain situations. Coming from a no-bullshit Canadian

@taquito2606

3 жыл бұрын

Orpheas Malliamanis In all honesty, it's probably because their tools are measured in imperial. I see it all the time with woodworking

@ethanbarclay6292

3 жыл бұрын

imperial and metric have their own benefits

@denniscraven8438

3 жыл бұрын

Amen. Just give me a number. I switched over 3 yrs ago. Never looked back!

@gereonH

3 жыл бұрын

@@redbeardedberserker I guess the "argh" and facepalm sound of 193 Countries using the metric system is louder than the laughing of the imperial countries of Burma, Liberia and... what was it... oh, wait... the US of A...

Thank you very much for taking the time to record this video. Very informative and helpful.

My humbuckers sit lowest than the single coils on my SSH Strat, since the HB's are naturally louder. So sinking them more balances the volume so it doesnt surprise u when you switch pickups live. And my singles sits low than this demo to begin with. Its all in your preferences.

Thanks very much. I have a very old Vox spitfire. It’s been sitting in the gig bag for at least 30 years. I recently decided to get back into it and noticed that the bridge pickup (on the treble side) is all the way down ! Even below the body of the guitar! Now, I have a good idea how to adjust it . THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!

Thanks. This tutorial woke me up on how I never gave a second thought to the height of my pups. Now I'm gonna take the chance to have a look and tweak around 👏 👏

@Rickkelley365

4 жыл бұрын

xperia9x My dad has been a touring musician for 30+ years. I started playing around 1993. I started purposefully adjusting pickup height in 2019. And only then because I had a neck pup fall into the cavity and I had to pull everything apart and reset it. And I was like, “I don’t know where this thing is supposed to sit.” Here I sat, with 25 years of playing, my father gigging all my life, plus the interwebs, and I never once gave a thought to where my pickups sat in relation to the strings. Better late than never I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️😂😂

@ramencurry6672

2 ай бұрын

It’s possible that the factory specs are fine. I have adjusted my pickups on some of my guitars but I’ve also left some to the factory specs

Great vid. There are as many different preferences for height and how to set it as there are Strat players. I favor the bridge pickup as well, but my methodology has always been to put everything at about 1/8" to start (eyeballed). Then I dial the bridge pickup till I like it, though as a recording engineer, I usually lower what I don't like rather than raise to get more of what I do like. Once I've got the bridge pickup where I like it, I get the tonal balance of the neck pickup as I like it, then compare the volume of the neck and bridge, and then usually lower the neck pickup equally on both sides to even out volume with the bridge pickup. Lastly, I adjust the middle pickup. I never use it by itself, so I usually just adjust it so positions 2 and 4 on the 5-way sound as quacky as I like. Keeping this pickup lower, and lowering rather than raising generally, helps keep me from getting things too close and causing weird magnetic overtones.

Thanks, this will help immensely with a project I'm doing, replacing pickups for the first time.

Thanks for sharing; I hope this is as simple as you make it look. Power to the players!

How many of us in our youth bought replacement pickups, thinking the ones in the guitar sounded like crap? Never occurred to me then that maybe they just needed to be adjusted to find the sweet spot. I even returned boutique pickups I didn’t like, saying the “sound was no better!” Now I’m obsessive about dialing in the perfect tone. I also use my volume and tone controls like never before to fine tune things further with different amp settings. It’s very subjective from the comments I’ve read here. Thanks StewMac.

@carlc2597

5 жыл бұрын

Well said David, I agree completely!

@Rickkelley365

4 жыл бұрын

David Smith you are so right. Confession: I played for 20 years before I knew how important pickup adjustment was to my tone. I picked up a $50 Squier bullet recently on a used guitar site. It was the first adjustment I made. Even this little cheap thing sounds pretty good simply because I dialed in the pickups. Crazy

My advice is to measure your starting point. Then you won't be afraid to try out different heights. When calibrating two/three pickups to each other I listen to their characteristics. Neither of the pickups should be dominant when being switched together.

Whatever works. Depends on string gauge and desired effect. The lace sensors allow a setup closer to the strings at the neck.

6:10 EHHHH

@yboy898

4 жыл бұрын

Damn you beat me to it 😂 Funny af *Eihh*

@raysaade

4 жыл бұрын

@@yboy898 Hahahahahaha dead

0:49 Hair went from passionate Erick to cool Erick

I like my single coils low end 5/32 and the high end 3/32. It makes a strat much more articulate.I can always kick on my overdrive if I need more sound.

@2204JCM

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, 3/64 is too close. Fuzz city

Tks for those specs. I also own a Fernandes like yours and God I love it more than almost every Strats I've tried.

I keep my strat pickups very low for more sustain and even tone and using booster to bring it up, works well ;)

@91sandman19

4 жыл бұрын

I did, but i think you loss a little of body.

@Manu-xk1ub

3 жыл бұрын

@@91sandman19 put them a little higher

@TheBoomtown4

3 жыл бұрын

@@Manu-xk1ub haha

That explains my horrible tone during my garage bad days. I had the pickups as high as I could get them on my flying V, because it made more volume, but I could never figure out why my sustain was nonexistent, so I compensated that with a compression pedal, dialed up to max. That of course caused all kinds of weird issues with noise and unwanted overtones, so I had to have a noise gate, which of course was dialed up as high a threshold as I could get and still have something come out the speakers. Then of course I had to have all the modulation effects that everyone else was using like delay, flanger, and phaser before at the front of my signal, so you can imagine the mess that came out in the end with the gain turned up full. It's a wonder anyone could tell the difference between different songs. It's also why I kept my day job. At least my tone is good these days, lol.

Doing this with distortion on seems strange to me..

Thanks for sharing a fine tutorial. However it would be interesting to have a clean tone section too.

When i played strat i had them waaay lower than that. With the treble side slightly raised. We all play so differently lmao.

Thanks for the vid , it really helped me , before my guitar tone was doing some sort of "glitches" by not going in a straight line ... anyways .. after tho it really sounds great by strumming soft or hard . In both ways it sounds good and the "glitches" are no more :) Apreciate the help !

I just play a telecaster jammed on the bridge pickup. It came well set up out of the box, I'm pretty sure I've tweaked everything else but the height of that pickup. Just make sure it all sounds good to you!

Great tips. I have an early 2000's Fernandes AFR-55 in my collection. Very underrated Japaneese guitars in my opinion.

I appreciate this heads up, I'll put this to good use when adjusting my DiMazio pick ups when I get them

Gracious. Everybody has their preferences, and what's right for you, is right! As a Stratocaster player of 57 years, I dunk the neck PUP nearly down to the pickguard; set the middle a bit higher, and the bridge higher still, keeping it away from the playing hand. The biggest problem, is that consarned raised third polepiece, hovering underneath an unwound 3rd string. Cannot for the life of me figure out why Fender keeps making a wound polepiece in an unwound world ...

Great tutorial. Thanks for stressing the personal dynamics rather than making it a cookie cutter lesson based on Fender specs.

It's funny how Fender specs them so high. I watched a post by Dan Patlansky a few years back and he lowers his Strat pickups as low as they'll go (his were almost level with the pickguard). I did it with my Texas Specials and, while they're no longer as hot, the sustain and tone both increased.

Learned some good stuff from this video!

Excellent! I really appreciate these videos. Thank you!

@stewmac

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank you a lot , have pickups in the mail coming my way soon and it’s my 1st time replacing pickups on my Strat , I’ve got my fingers cross 🤞🤞it’ll be fine...

I used to have a tuning device called a Strobopick by Planet Wave that projected strobed led light on the string and if you had the pickups too close you can visually see the stratiitis on the on the strings. The frequency would wobble back and forth (this was with alnico 2). I found that putting pickups lower than what you're showing gives a purer tone, if that's what you're looking for.

@joeltunnah

8 ай бұрын

How would he even know, he's got so much distortion on the guitar?

Excellent info, alot of players/beginners don't know this! Thanks, an we'll be see'n ya again! Tahuya Shawn.

Since I’m very confused I just set it to be as high output as possible without playing issues, then balanced it between the pickup that was outputting the least so I didn’t have one pickup louder than the other. The higher the output the less gain I need to use and therefore, less hum/noise. I did not balance the output of the low strings with the high strings, low strings are louder than high ones, I figured this was fine because I’ll need less gain to chug, and the high strings still come through with chords and leads. I’m a more dynamic player anyway, so it fits. Also I like the sound of somewhat muddy chords. I don’t how anyone else does this, I wish there were more guidelines lol.

Jimi was very particular about his guitar setups, though he did experiment a lot, thank goodness!

Yes after a long time it finally released thx

Oh man. It depends all on your ears. Just play with the pickup height and give it a listen.

I find that lowering my pickups gives me more dynamics between amp and guitar. Sounds more expressive...

@john564holloway

5 жыл бұрын

Good tip! I understand that farther away from the pups you may have less volume but more sustain since the magnets are farther from the strings.

@aserta

5 жыл бұрын

Same except mid, i keep it half way. Prolly related to where i swing my pick tho.

@antilitarded4142

5 жыл бұрын

same here......I can get far more quality and distinct overtones with the pickups far lower than factory specs

@john564holloway

5 жыл бұрын

I've taken close looks at guitarist's pups whether humbuckers or SC & probably 90% have them really low, barely above the pickguard or frames of the humbuckers. Their sound still is awsum.

@kommi1974

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't disagree more. The further away the pups are, the more muddy and undefined they become, taking away ALL of the characteristics which make those particular pups special.

After adjusting the pickups to the high E string, check the pickup height at the low E again. It will have risen, too, because the pivot is further away at the adjustment screw!

My pick hand improved so much when i got rid of my strat and its volume knob early on as a beginner

great vid. simple and straight to the point.

Those pickups sound fantastic! 👍🏻

Helpful info and great video. Thank you.

I love that copper pick guard

I run mine high on the bridge (Hotrail pickup) low in the middle and medium-high at the neck. With the way I've wired the pickups it allows the middle to blend and supplement the bridge but for the neck and bridge to give my tone the full Monty. It's wired to allow neck and bridge to be used together (aiming for a kinda Tele tone).

This is very helpful. Thanks!

Thanks man , brilliant playing!!!!

Thanks for the added information ..that was well explained...thank you.......now this is leading me to another question ?? What would accurately measure the difference between staggered poles and flat poles ....would a common string tuner measure pitchyness (could all the strings be in tune but pitchy)......between the level poles and staggered poles ..or what accurate measuring instrument could be used.....

I like the pick ups set higher and closer to the strings. The signal seems more powerful & stronger going into the amp. Seems to sound like I'm getting more dynamically from the Bass, Middle & Treble EQ on the amp. The Echo/Reverb length & depth is what it is for the amp. The amp I have is an open back amp and it doesn't seem to have the bass that a closed cabinet puts out. With the warmer tone from a higher pickup, that bass is more present. I also have a closed back amp and that really has a deeper thump at max settings. But that's what the EQ knobs on the amp & tone knobs on the guitar are for. The volume also has more effect with EQ & tone settings with a stronger signal. Too far away for the pickups, the bridge only pickup setting sounds too nasally treble on that open back amp. Now it sounds more powerful and stronger with the bridge only pickup setting. The rest of the pickup combinations are not too strong or too weak as well. It definitely is a preference. My Bullet SSS HT is never going to have the tone of my Epiphone LP, but with warmer tone than the Bullet strat had, it's as close as it's ever been now. I don't want it to sound the same, but it was too weak before.

Yep good info. Sweet simple and easy. Sharing is caring!

i set mine to factory specs and i will observe. great video

I use my Allen keys - one is marked 3/32 and is perfect for setting the gap - slide it between the pickup and string - viola.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

8 ай бұрын

Use wood. Not steel--it's magnetic.

Nice video explaination. I went thought lots of experimentation it almost drove me nuts! I have noise cancelling stacked humbuckers on one guitar and mini rail humbuckers on another. Are are single coil style size. Is your action kinda high?

In his setup video, Joe Walsh mentions adjusting the height of the bottom of the pickup (first string end) and top of the pickup (6th string end) independently, if necessary, to make sure the volume is consistent between the first and 6th strings.

Revisiting this video, I have a method to get to Fender specs for Standard Single coil (5/64 Bass, 4/64 Treble) & Humbuckers (4/64 for both bass & Treble) for Fender guitars. Since 5/64 & 4/64 inch are their manual specs for Bass & Treble sides, a popsicle stick is 1/16 inch thickness (measure to make sure any popsicle sticks are that thickness that you may use), that's the same as 2/32 & 4/64 inch measures. These are the dimensions of the popsicle stick(s) that I use, true measurements with a standard tape measure, 4-1/2" Long x 1/16" Thick. Laying the guitar flat on it's back, one can use 2 of the 3 pickup poles at a time, starting with the neck & middle pickups, lay the popsicle stick flat on the 2 poles, then raise or lower while fretting the last fret so that there is no gap on each side. The repeat that process for the neck & bridge pickups for Bass & Treble. With the guitar pickup heights at Fender specs, it is now ready to tweak in the playing position for more or less pickup height gap as fretted on the last fret.

@jovesheerwater

4 жыл бұрын

Erudite!

Eric you rock buddy.

He has a single ply pickguard, which is thinner than a 3 ply and makes the pickups look adjusted higher. But it is the distance between the bottom of the E and e strings and the top of their pickup pole pieces that count.

Thank you! I learned a lot.

Thanks buddy, that helped a lot!

great advice. thank you

Excellent video.

Awesome guitar dude. Would love a Fernandes

I was changing, and measuring heights, and chasing sound forever, Now I have my pickups all the way down that the pickup covers are flush flat with the pick guard now, and it’s giving off serious tone and harmonics that it never did before. - 2008 American Olympic Strat w/factory pickups.

Love the doodling

Thank you for The Cramps sticker ~ I always do it by ear (who cares what F recommends?)

@rimmersbryggeri

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly they still make pickups with staggered pole pieces so what do they know.. :P

Great tips👍🏻

Very helpful. Thanks!

Very useful, thanx. Ps your Fernandes is wonderful

I’ve spent the past week messing with extremes at both ends of the height spectrum and have found I like the stats lower. Pretty much flush with the tops of the set screws at the neck, very slightly above that at middle and slightly higher yet at bridge a little tilt for even volume string to string. Warm but dynamic and harmonic. My teles like the single nickel at the high e. Two nickels on the low E,spacing,neck and bridge. I Usually back them off another 1/4-1/2 turn after that.

Thanks for the tips. What about installing pu's too close together, does it affect tone of one or the other pickup? Will be putting a P90 (HB version) between a HB bridge and a Tele neck and am wondering if the middle pu will affect the tone of other two pu's? To put it differently, how close is too close?

Yes, it's a matter of taste. I prefer the pickups on the Strat at a distance of at least 5 mm from the strings.

Thank you for an informative video on adjusting strat pickups!

It would be great if you guys put the measurements in millimeters on the screen

@MrVirgilVox

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah for the rest (95%) of worlds population.

@raymondortizrivera4368

4 жыл бұрын

Use your calculator on your phone or computer it should have the difference in measurements

@MrVirgilVox

4 жыл бұрын

Raymond ORTIZ RIVERA oh rly?!

@Throckmorton_the_great

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrVirgilVox Why the sarcasm? Hes not wrong?

@stevee7774

3 жыл бұрын

It would be even better if you metric loving pansies would quit crying about it and just Google the damn conversion already but I guess that would take the satisfaction of bitching about something so trivial away from you so carry on with your crying. 😢

Mi experiencia me ha llevado a hacer el ajuste de la altura de los pickup no con medida sino a lo que mi oído me dice. Debe existir una altura tal de la pickup en las strings 6, 5 y 4 hasta que el sonido esté claro (no stratitis) y las strings 1, 2 y 3 si puede estar más alta la pickup hasta que el sonido esté claro y brillante

Great video. I need to experiment with my hss strat. Bridge pickup is way too loud compared to others.

hello StewMac!! A wonderful video right here. I actually had a problems with my guitar though, for each string, there are certain frets (which means not all the fret) had buzzing and only make a little sound... For example, my D-string sound great at all of the fret except the 3rd and the 5th fret which is bad... what should I do or adjust to make sure that they wont buzz anymore? THANK YOUU!!

Hey if he likes it then that is good enough for him, it is a very subjective thing. I personally would have gone for the cleanest sound I could get (no electronics/distortion) but that is my subjectivity. Very nice presentation, I like it

This guy is a genius!

With vintage stagger pole pieces, I find flipping the PU around keeps the "A" string from being over bearing on chords, and aids in the clarity of the high strings. Note that I have my PUs set lower into the pickguard. Strings sustain better this way too!

@58BURST

2 жыл бұрын

You can actually tap the poles down deeper or up higher individually. I've known players who would make staggered poles flat all across.

@antoniojimenezperez50

Жыл бұрын

@@58BURST do you know why do they flatten the poles?

@58BURST

Жыл бұрын

@@antoniojimenezperez50 it's really all personal preference, to what the ear likes. 🎸

@antoniojimenezperez50

Жыл бұрын

@@58BURST ok thanks🤠

I just raise them till they make wolftones, then drop them down to the point where the wolftones disappear.

@cardbored_

3 жыл бұрын

I just raise them until they make wolftones and then leave them because Wolves deserve tones too.

@mindcontrol67

3 жыл бұрын

I'll raise mine if I want to play werewolves of london.

I always put the pickups so that the top of the pole pieces are dead center between the body/pickguard and the outer strings. Afterwards I fine tune the hight to get the preferred balance between sustain and output. Oh yeah, and I always put the middle pickup level with the pickguard (or as low as it'll go) as to not have it get in the way of my picking

Awesome wisdom ❤ Thank you Masters.

If you put the PU to close: Stratitis, to far away: get thin, in between: there is enough space to adjust volume. Farther away typically means more dynamics and sustain. With a little lower thus softer and thinner mid PU, positions 2 and 4 get better, in my opinion. I start with the mid PU but coming from low, until it is not to thin. Next is the neck, which needs to be hearable louder. Than I test the mid/neck to get the balance right. Last is the bridge, same level as neck. Always try soloing across all strings and strumming with patterns typical for this position.

@Adveniotu

2 жыл бұрын

This is great.

@MrSlimfinger

Жыл бұрын

What’s “stratisis” supposed to mean?

@moskitoh2651

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSlimfinger Stratitis is a wrong sound, which you most commonly get from strats. It happens when the magnet field influences how the strings are moving. This causes dissonant overtones. There is many example videos about this.

@MrSlimfinger

Жыл бұрын

@@moskitoh2651 very interesting, thanks for the explanation. I’ll have to look that up!

@moskitoh2651

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSlimfinger Welcome! PU height is a very important topic for a good sound. Hope you get that fixed nicely.

Awesome awesome video.. Thank you!

Many thanks, very clear tutorial, an I found it very helpful! I jus been doin mine by ear fer like 45 years, but mebbe gittin out my machinist's ruler will facilitate reproducibility, an save me some time, when I tear down one of my axes...

@Ndlanding

3 жыл бұрын

And maybe it won't. Stick to what you know (if you like it)!

Hi, I look for the fatest warm pickups for my strat ! Which model would you recommend me , sounding straty but very fat with enhance bass ? Thanks a lot for you answer, best regards from France

Factory specs are a good starting point and adjust from there for your own style and preference. Personally, I don't want even sound between positions. I lower the bridge for a softer rhythm sound, rasie the middle for lead or a perceived boost in postitions 2 and 4, and set the neck (where I spend most of my time) somewhere inbetween. Unconventional, but it works for me. Like he said, dial in your own guitar for your own sound...

Wait since the higher strings are less loud than the lower ones, can I balance this by putting the side of the pickup which is near the high strings a bit higher so these strings get louder?