Strat Pickup height adjustment
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2023
- The height of your pickups is crucial to your tone. I find that the better the quality of the pickup the more sensitive they are to changes in height. Pickup Height Adjustment is an essential part of your sound, it's worth finding out a bt about it.
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What I mean by height adjustment is setting the distance from the top of the pickup to the bottom of the string. It's like how close to the microphone you're singing. But it doesn't just change how loud your guitar is - there's a lot more to it.
There is, of course, no correct distance from the string so the measurements I’ll give you are a guide and a great place to start. I recommend you set your MrGlyn’s Pickups to these heights when you install them but feel free to tweak them to your own taste after.
In this article I'd like to arm you with a start point, some information and the confidence to find your own correct pickup height.
The principle of Pickup Height Adjustment is, the closer to the strings the pickups are the louder and more dynamic the sound, further away is more compressed and quieter.
So what does that mean?
Imagine someone whispering in your ear. This is like a pickup close to the strings. It not only sounds loud and clear, you can hear every detail of the sound. You are very sensitive to and variation in volume, its very dynamic. Then imagine if the voice is the other side of a room. The voice is less dynamic, you aren'e as sensitive to slight changes in volume, it's more compressed. Keep that in mind when setting your pickups. 
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This is such a great video, as all your are. Thanks so much for making them.
Excellent stuff man; thank you!!!
Awesome, thanks for the information Glyn. Oh, and nice editing. ;)
Great vid! I just saw a Peter Green LP setup...all this time I thought they MUST be LEVEL!
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'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.
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?