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Topic: Tilting the Pickup |
Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 1:57 pm |
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With a humbucking pickup, such as a BL-710, there are two rows of magnets. If you adjust the pickup, so that it is tilted back toward the changer, does that move the entire magnetic field that direction, thereby making the tone, or timbre, more treble in nature? Or, does that pull the magnets on that side of the pickup further away from the strings and reduce the treble?
Lee, from South Texas |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 5:11 pm
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Get yourself a Tonealigner and a decent malt! 
Arch.
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I'm well behaved, so there! |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 7:14 pm
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| Arch - I tried, but Bob doesn't make tonealigners for narrow-mount Mullen guitars. I haven't tried the malt yet, though! |
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Brick Spieth
From:
San Jose, California, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 7:50 pm
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Archie, I just got my Tonealigner in the mail today and was wondering just what my approach should be on my first PSG pickup swap. Thanks for the advise. Now should it be Mccallans, Glenlivit, or Laphrough?
Or maybe cause it is an all American endeavor, I should just go Wild Turkey. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 4 Mar 2009 12:30 am
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| Lee, it really won't make much difference. The spacing between the rows of magnets is so close that it's a moot point as to whether the pickup is tilted or not. Also, the differences in signal strength (between each coil) would be pretty small too, so that's another thing negating any noticeable change. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 4 Mar 2009 7:20 am
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| Donny, I figured that was the case. I'm curious to know what the magnetic field above a pickup "looks" like. Is it wide enough that tilting the pickup makes little or no difference, or could it be narrow and focused enough that it could be "pointed" at a particular area of the strings? |
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