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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: hhcave on January 02, 2008, 05:45:16 PM

Title: Question about calibrated sets
Post by: hhcave on January 02, 2008, 05:45:16 PM

How are pickups calibrated? Because surely they need the guitar you will be installing the pickups in to see how the pickups should be calibrated? Or do they not?

Title: Question about calibrated sets
Post by: Jonny on January 02, 2008, 06:00:23 PM

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A calibrated set of humbuckers(or single coils for that matter) are pickups wound to optimise tone and output for their respective position, ie bridge and neck humbuckers are wound differently and often feature different magnets too. The strings move alot more over the neck pickup and generate more current so neck pickups are often wound to have a lower output in comparison to a bridge in order to achieve better clarity and balance between the pair. The best way to think of a calibrated set is as a matched pair.

It's not about different guitars, just the different position.

Title: Question about calibrated sets
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on January 02, 2008, 06:31:15 PM

This subject is already under discussion here -- http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10834

please post your question in that thread if it's not already been answered.