SOLVED | F-Spaced vs. G-Spaced Guitar Pickups
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- Опубликовано: 12 фев 2022
- A simple breakdown of the difference between F-spaced and G-spaced guitars/pick ups. Knowing the difference between F-spacing and G-spacing can be hard. The crazy, opinionated world of the internet and guitar forums doesn't make it any easier. Also, particular spacing isn't uniform from guitar to guitar, it all varies. Come watch the whole video and see whats important about spacing and how to find the right match up. This is a SOLVED series video!
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So tired of hearing people saying you HAVE to use F spaced on floyd equipped guitars. There has been no proof there is a sonic difference. Maybe if you are looking at the signal with an oscilloscope you might see a slight difference, but not with ears. Good vid!
I really appreciate your comment man. The g spaced I have with my Floyd sounds great! So I really think it’s just an aesthetic thing. Want a free sticker?
@@nikaxeguitar Sure. Like your channel. I've always wanted to try something like this
sure, run it thru an oscilloscope to waste some time in your life.
No one tells you that with individual pole pieces that you cant bend a string, because doing that would mean the string is bent into the total silence between pole pieces, right?
I keep running into your videos. Thank you for doing this! Exactly what I was looking for. You are a hero! Subscribed! Keep up the good work! :)
Good stuff. Never replaced any of my stock pick-ups... but now thinking about it... and so this is the first time I'd ever heard of F and G spacing. Thank you for the explanation. I will now buy the right ones!
Glad to help!
thank you it helped with the Suhr SSV & the wrong one thx dude
🤘🤘 From the western slope! Thx for the clarification on the pick-ups
You got it man! Anytime!
Also note that almost 99% of Ibanez Hardtail/Fixed Bridge guitars, has the F-Spaced/Trembucker measurement.
Great video this needs more views
Thanks for this.
I have a parallel axis distortion on a jackson kelly pile of skulls. Wow. Such a killer tone!
This whole problem is just another check in the box for rail-style pickups.
With you on that dude
So for my Jackson Js32 Rhoads Satin Gray guitar i need to buy Trembucker, right?
Thank you for amazing video!
just got the seymour duncan set and I have a F-Bridge guitar, came here a little too late to check this info... They just shipped my package, anyway... Let's try it out and see what we got. Thank you for the very useful information my brother
Yessir! You never know. Maybe they shipped an f-spaced with it
I just installed a TB-4 in a new pickguard ordered from AE for an HSS Squier Classic Vibe Strat. I had to sand the opening for the humbucker since the hole was cut for a G-Spaced pickup. You can order a pickguard with the right hole size (F-Spaced) from Warmoth but it will be a bit pricier.
Interesting. Thanks for the comment!
Great video
Thanks my dude
But at the neck position I have to watch the spacing either?
Nope!
i think it's 99% aesthetic thing. and that 1% is only with someone who'd look at the bridge as close as less than 10 inches, mostly like you and you only. So, if it bothers your eyes, then go with matching spacing. if not, nobody would notice or care.
Lol, I just noticed on my Pacifica the strings don't run through the middle of the poles on the bridge humbucker, the poles are wider apart than the strings. It sounds good and obviously Yamaha don't think it matters.
So it doesn’t matter if I put this on my string thru schecter?
Something strange. My Epiphone Prophecy SG has F spaced strings, but stock G spaced Dirty Fingers humbuckers. Guitar still sounds great, but it's time for a change. Thanks for the info.
But does it really not effect the quality of the sound? I'm concerned about this because I just custom ordered an F spaced DiMarzio D Activator for the bridge of my les paul but didn't understand enough about them before doing so. I have a Gibson 490R in the neck and I don't think you would find a professional guitarist or company designing a line up like that and there's maybe a reason for that? I don't know. i'm thinking of re-ordering and will now have a brand new hotter than normal D Activator without a use for it.
Hey brother. I can’t fully speak to your situation but here’s mine. I put a g spaced in an f spaced guitar and it’s one of my best sounding. So take that for what it’s worth
@@nikaxeguitar well I hope I get the same result from the opposite situation. Especially considering that my 490 is G and this will be F spaced in the bridge.
D activator uses bar poles. So all 6 poles are the same pole. So the spacing will not matter. Hope it helps.
BOOM, Knowledge bomb
So for fixed bridge its g spaced or on seymourduncans website bridge position is that right?
It depends. What guitar do you have?
@@nikaxeguitar ibanez rga42ex and has a fixed bridge
@@ragesalazar7956 being that it’s an ibanez I can almost guarantee it’s f-spaced
@@nikaxeguitar thanka this will help a lot
@@ragesalazar7956 Glad to help. Let me know if you need anything. I'm available always!
Well I goofed up and it doesn't really matter. Already ordered and it's shipped my Dimarzio Evolution pickups. Didn't notice my neck pickup I ordered is F spacing and its for a Epiphone sg. Non Trem.😂
The F stands for "Floating"!
seriously??
@@nikaxeguitarYeah dude! My uncle owned a guitar shop through the 70's, 80's & 90's. His guitar repair guy gave me that info almost 30 years ago. 99.99% of the time you use an F-spaced pickup on a floating bridge, so I believed it to be true! But I have used many F-spaced pickups in the neck position of guitars with 43mm nuts or greater too, for years. A lot of Ibanez guitars, especially the ones with Dimarzio pickups use 2 F-spaced humbuckers on their floating trem guitars. My RGT 42 and my RG420HPFM both had dual F-spaced stock. I've done a couple comparisons over the years, there is NO difference in sound, the tolerance of the pickup loads will be a bigger change than the spacing itself. Just install what you got or can get for the least amount of money. \,,/
@@colemcdaniel5468 whoaaaa that’s awesome!
About the neck pickup and spacings; they do matter, but not quite as much as a bridge pickup. Dimarzio for example as one company that specifically uses the term f spaced on their pickups, the neck pickup Liquifire I use in my neck is f spaced, however, this can be off a bit due to the size of the nut(width of the nut) in comparison with the width of the bridge. The bridge pickup being so close to the bridge, that spacing won't be very far off from the bridge spacing whereas if the nut and bridge widths have a much larger difference in width then the neck pickup would require a different spacing than the bridge.
Now. Here's my opinion on the spacing thing in general. The wrong spacing won't affect the "tone" that the pickup gives. It will however affect the volume of each individual string. So the wrong spacing will definitely make some strings sound more dull and quieter than the other strings due to them not being in the center of the poles field. If this is a big deal is determined by how sensitive your hearing is to your tone and how finicky you are in that area of you're skill. If you are the kind of person like myself, that can hear the difference when one string goes dead while the others are still "alive" then yes. It will definitely be noticeable. Especially if you once more like myself use a specific tone that's dialed almost identical every time you pick up your axe. However if you can't tell when you're strings are dead just from the tone of them,then I really doubt you would ever hear any difference.
The point. It's all subjective to our own mindsets and opinions.
Great videos by the way. Been watching a few of yours recently. Always straight to the point, and pretty knowledgeable. Keep rocking brother!
I got a standard spaced Dimarzio Super Distortion for my 2020 GIBSON Les Paul STANDARD FIFTIES.
STANDARD FIFTIES (50’s).
WRONG.
WRONG.
The strings don’t line up with the pickup poles (bridge position).
Who knew a GIBSON STANDARD 50’s would use F Spaced pickups???
Gibson puts 498t as stock pups and they are f spaced. No one notices lol
I have an idea of using an f spaced bobbin and a g spaced bobbin on a pickup with the f spaced obviously pointing closer to the bridge. Especially when it comes to some of the Duncan hybrids like a jb/custom this would cover a lot of the sonic territory
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