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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: Kitsch on September 23, 2007, 07:09:37 PM

Title: Pick up height adjustment
Post by: Kitsch on September 23, 2007, 07:09:37 PM

I've recently installed a bk nailbomb (bridge) and bkp-91 (neck) but I cant get a proper adjustment, as if I set them at the height I generally set my pick ups, I get a very muddy tone with distorted sounds, and if I set them lower the distortion is not as dirty as it is with my other guitars (equipped with seymour duncan alnico 2 pro). Also, the P91 outputs almost half the volume of the nailbomb. Finally, I also have a fernandes sustainer (neck, above the p91), which doesnt seem to work as good as it should (feedback/sustain is quite weak in standard mode and totally absent in harmonic mode)

Any help/advice is greately appreciated.

Edo - Kitsch

www.kitsch-music.com

Title: Pick up height adjustment
Post by: Kitsch on September 24, 2007, 12:35:23 PM

anyone??

Title: Pick up height adjustment
Post by: Twinfan on September 24, 2007, 12:56:25 PM

You'll never get a bridge Nailbomb to match the output of a middle P-91?  Way too much of a difference I would have thought.

Try adjusting the polepiece heights too if you haven't already.

There's no magic formula, you just have to try lots of things.

Title: Pick up height adjustment
Post by: Kitsch on September 24, 2007, 01:50:34 PM

Well, the p91 is on the neck, not middle. Anyways, how do I adjust the polepieces? I mean, how does it affect the sound? Clockwise il louder, counterclockwise is thinner?

Thanks

Title: Pick up height adjustment
Post by: Twinfan on September 24, 2007, 02:21:31 PM

Anti-clockwise = closer to the strings = louder.  You may get a little more clarity with the polepieces further out.  It's something you have to try and see how it works for you.

The P-91 will never match the output of the Nailbomb unless you drop it way down, but then why have a Nailbomb?