andy474x
Knows the Drill
...adjusted the pole pieces on my neck humbuckers. I know, crazy, right???
We always tell people to adjust their pole pieces first when they're not liking something about their pickups, and I was reminded this week of how true it is. I love the tone of most of my guitars enough that I don't want to swap their pickups, but sometimes the neck humbuckers can still be to wooly and bassy. I usually automatically adjust all humbucker pole pieces to roughly match the radius of the string arc, might deviate very slightly from that but not much.
A few days ago, I thought, what the heck, why not get weird with them? So I grabbed my Akesson and a screwdriver, and adjusted the G, B, e string pole pieces on the neck humbucker up a healthy dose. Liked it. Did it on my S2 Semi. Liked it. Did it on... everything. Liked it. It just gets the low strings "out of the way" so I can actually play them with some gain, and still have articulation.
Looks weird, sounds good. Adjust with your ears, not your eyes.
We always tell people to adjust their pole pieces first when they're not liking something about their pickups, and I was reminded this week of how true it is. I love the tone of most of my guitars enough that I don't want to swap their pickups, but sometimes the neck humbuckers can still be to wooly and bassy. I usually automatically adjust all humbucker pole pieces to roughly match the radius of the string arc, might deviate very slightly from that but not much.
A few days ago, I thought, what the heck, why not get weird with them? So I grabbed my Akesson and a screwdriver, and adjusted the G, B, e string pole pieces on the neck humbucker up a healthy dose. Liked it. Did it on my S2 Semi. Liked it. Did it on... everything. Liked it. It just gets the low strings "out of the way" so I can actually play them with some gain, and still have articulation.
Looks weird, sounds good. Adjust with your ears, not your eyes.
