My first guitar is an 🇺🇸 strat and still have BUT I bought a 2018 butterscotch Fender player telecaster this summer and I got teleitis ‼️😂🤣 I just got a Squire affinity FMT telecaster and it's a good guitar for the money ‼️
This is great! For years, I've known that higher isn't always better. Plus magnet type has a little influence. In my Yamaha, they're ceramic. I've set my pickups to "the middle ground," and they've done well. I've also tried the "raising higher strings vs lower strings" comparison. This starts to get nit-picky, but I always want to see what my gear is and isn't capable of. For the record, it gets interesting results, and is totally a "taste" thing - but it's well worth trying.
I remember Joe Walsh saying, he would crank them up so close, just at the point of not buzzing as he's playing. He didnt care about sustain, just noise.
I've read magnetic field strength varies by cube of distance. So a very small change in distance will be a very large change in magnetic field strength.
It happens anyway. It’s just that you can hear it louder with the pickup higher. Try it. You will see. I wish you showed how it “ disappears “ by lowering the pickup. It doesn’t happen and you probably know it.
You've definitely got it backwards. Its more dynamic and less compressed with the pickups lower/further away from the strings, and less dynamic/more compressed when higher/closer to the strings. Your demonstration kinda sucked because you started off picking fairly hard in the beginning of both examples, which didnt leave much room to show the difference in dynamics. But despite that, it still is pretty audible that it was more dynamic with the pickups lower/further from string. I even grabbed a good pair of headphones and re-listened to make sure. Then i was curious if maybe it was just you being inconsistent with your attack, so i did a little research. No where can i find anyone saying its more dynamic and less compressed with the pickups closer. And from my own experience as well, guitar pickups have always been more dynamic further away. 🤔
This is such a great video, as all your are. Thanks so much for making them.
My first guitar is an 🇺🇸 strat and still have BUT I bought a 2018 butterscotch Fender player telecaster this summer and I got teleitis ‼️😂🤣
I just got a Squire affinity FMT telecaster and it's a good guitar for the money ‼️
Awesome, thanks for the information Glyn. Oh, and nice editing. ;)
Great information and something to tinker with tomorrow!
Exactly, its something to tinker with. There's no right or wrong here.
This is great! For years, I've known that higher isn't always better. Plus magnet type has a little influence. In my Yamaha, they're ceramic. I've set my pickups to "the middle ground," and they've done well. I've also tried the "raising higher strings vs lower strings" comparison. This starts to get nit-picky, but I always want to see what my gear is and isn't capable of. For the record, it gets interesting results, and is totally a "taste" thing - but it's well worth trying.
I completely agree, the trick is to get it right for you then stop fiddling - I struggle with that last part.
I remember Joe Walsh saying, he would crank them up so close, just at the point of not buzzing as he's playing. He didnt care about sustain, just noise.
I've read magnetic field strength varies by cube of distance. So a very small change in distance will be a very large change in magnetic field strength.
I just set the pickups low enough to where it doesn’t happen at all and then turn up the amp I am playing through
Great vid! I just saw a Peter Green LP setup...all this time I thought they MUST be LEVEL!
It happens anyway. It’s just that you can hear it louder with the pickup higher.
Try it. You will see. I wish you showed how it “ disappears “ by lowering the pickup. It doesn’t happen and you probably know it.
Excellent stuff man; thank you!!!
"Yeah. I'll edit that out" Hahahaha. Sorry. Loved the very helpful video. Just thought that was funny. 🙂
I realized when I looked over the video that it would just seem more honest if it was one take.
@@MrGlynsPickups Haha. I know what you mean. I get a bit tired of all the jump cuts in so many TH-cam videos.
This is only a Strat issue? Or single coil issue or can we apply this to all pickups?
All magnetic pickups to a greater or lesser extent. It's less with humbuckers, they have one north and one south coil.
You've definitely got it backwards. Its more dynamic and less compressed with the pickups lower/further away from the strings, and less dynamic/more compressed when higher/closer to the strings. Your demonstration kinda sucked because you started off picking fairly hard in the beginning of both examples, which didnt leave much room to show the difference in dynamics. But despite that, it still is pretty audible that it was more dynamic with the pickups lower/further from string. I even grabbed a good pair of headphones and re-listened to make sure. Then i was curious if maybe it was just you being inconsistent with your attack, so i did a little research. No where can i find anyone saying its more dynamic and less compressed with the pickups closer. And from my own experience as well, guitar pickups have always been more dynamic further away. 🤔
Yeah but he was using a compressor pedal turned on the whole time so how do you explain that?