I am getting the GFS Dream 90s(HB-sized) for one of my guitar builds, and I was puzzled to see that the bridge PU has wide 2 1/8" spacing. So I wrote them and Jay answered that he has sold many to Gibson users, and that as long as the strings are inside the poles, not outside, things will be dandy. Is this true of most pickups? I'm trying to get the right bridge to handle my pickup swaps.
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RMosack |
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Posts: 3164 Sat, Jul 28, 2007 21:24:16 Contrib. Silver Charter Member |
I'm not sure if it's 100% true of most pickups, but it seems reasonable. I'm assuming his numbers are center to center for the poles. If your strings are about 2" apart (center to center), that's only .125" less. Cut that in half, and that means that the center of the string would be .0625" from the center of the pole piece (with everything aligned nice and straight).
That difference is very, very small. I would guess that much of the string will be over much of the pole, plus all of it is probably sitting easily within the effective magnetic field. Once it starts vibrating, it really moves in and out over the pole. Besides, even with a string perfecly aligned over the pole pieces, you don't notice a drop in volume when you bend a note. "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women." - The Governator
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PeteMK1 |
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Posts: 2080 Sun, Jul 29, 2007 18:27:19 Contributing Silver Member |
>"Besides, even with a string perfecly aligned over the pole pieces, you don't notice a drop in volume when you bend a note."
IME, that's not always true, but there's not much one can do about it. For bridge pickups, it's not a severe problem, but bending can cause a significant volume loss on the neck pickup. Most often, height adjustment can be tweaked such that the problem goes away. Another good solution are rail pickups. Anyways, my personal problem with misalignment is that it bothers me visually...I just don't like it.  Let the thunder roll and the lightning flash, I'm doing alright for country trash.
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Posts: 8 Sat, May 3, 2008 06:18:43 |
dawin12 wrote: I tend not to agree with Jay, but I do on that point. I'd go along with trying the pickups, and see what result you get. I've done a lot of
jockeying strings around on tele style barrel saddles, and the biggest of the big dropoffs were on those lipsticks that Jay sold so many of, where the string
was wide of the polepieces. Most MIM and MIA Strat neck pup polepieces are way too wide for even the vintage string array, and yet the result was very
satisfactory, so?
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Posts: 358 Tue, May 6, 2008 01:09:51 Silver Member |
Dunno about you guys but when I bend a low E I bend it towards the center of the fingerboard and I reckon the strings can sit outside that pole (the low E)
rather than inside. Really need some techno type here to map out the gauss strength around a typical pole piece set (I said set - these things interact and
reinforce) - my observations is that I can't tell the difference much unless we are falling offa the edge of the earth. Rusty.
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