Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: gwEm on May 05, 2006, 09:06:28 AM

Title: pickup height question - but for P90 /neck/ pickup
Post by: gwEm on May 05, 2006, 09:06:28 AM

for the bridge pickup its clear... set to around 2/3mm and adjust to taste.

normally i then adjust the neck pickup height to give a good volume balance with the bridge. usually the pole pieces are a bit further away from the strings than at the bridge.

this is all fine, but of course theres a problem.

the guitar in question has P90s and theres no overall pickup height adjustment, just for each pole. i need to add hard spacing between the pickup to the body, and i want to get this approximately correct for a good overall adjustment.

so now the question: how close to the strings would be a good starting place for the neck pickup?

perhaps someone could measure their guitar, or maybe has an idea anyway? i need something a bit more scientific than "a bit further away than the bridge pickup" ;)

obviously i should have measured this before i took the pickups off, but i didn't think of that  :roll:

thanks alot for any suggestion! i dont want to play around pulling the strings on and off and trying different spacers.

Title: pickup height question - but for P90 /neck/ pickup
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on May 07, 2006, 12:16:12 AM

4mm by the neck and 7mm furthest from the bridge on my LP

Title: pickup height question - but for P90 /neck/ pickup
Post by: gwEm on May 09, 2006, 08:12:42 AM

cheers :)