Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: kylendm on November 22, 2009, 07:49:06 PM

Title: No Holes Cover Question.
Post by: kylendm on November 22, 2009, 07:49:06 PM
Hey, I bought some no hole covers a while ago for my ibanez and they sucked so much tone out of the stock pickup. If I were to get a BKP with the no holes cover would it effect the tone a lot?
Title: Re: No Holes Cover Question.
Post by: Jonny on November 22, 2009, 09:19:07 PM
Stock pickups on an Ibanez are usually the IBZ and so I think they'd been optimized for no covers. And covers without the polepieces revealed generally and a very small amount does affect tone.

It may very well be the same with BKPs and it wouldn't hurt to get some covers with pole pieces but ultimately, I think asking for no hole covers then I think Tim and Co. would calibrate it so it wouldn't matter.

Hope that made sense.
Title: Re: No Holes Cover Question.
Post by: Davey on November 23, 2009, 02:33:21 PM
they are calibrated for the smaler magnetic field, due to the polepieces beeing a bit further from the strings, but no.. it does not affect tone. i got a ceramic warpig with a no hole cover and it slays!
Title: Re: No Holes Cover Question.
Post by: kylendm on November 25, 2009, 12:49:21 PM
Thanks guys :)