Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: badgermark on October 03, 2007, 03:52:47 PM
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Right-o, been bugging Tim for a few weeks now, so now I'll annoy you fellas for advice on pickups.
I've decided on the combination I wants for my beautiful MIM strat, just a few ordering questions.
Do I go for the staggered or flat pole pieces? The stock pickups are staggered towards the G and D strings being the highest, but I know that these have been messed about with by a top quality tech. Vintage stagger for me then? I don't know the radius of the fretboard.
Tim mentioned having a RW/RP middle, so when I order do I select the middle pickup as RW/RP and the others stock?
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Do I go for the staggered or flat pole pieces? The stock pickups are staggered towards the G and D strings being the highest, but I know that these have been messed about with by a top quality tech. Vintage stagger for me then? I don't know the radius of the fretboard.
I'm pretty sure your MIM Strat has a 9.5" radius, so it'll work fine with flat poles or staggered. Soundwise, it doesn't make much of a difference (IMO). Most people seem to like staggered poles for the vintage look.
Tim mentioned having a RW/RP middle, so when I order do I select the middle pickup as RW/RP and the others stock?
Yep. Then you'll have hum-cancelling in positions 2 and 4.
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Do I go for the staggered or flat pole pieces? The stock pickups are staggered towards the G and D strings being the highest, but I know that these have been messed about with by a top quality tech. Vintage stagger for me then? I don't know the radius of the fretboard.
I'm pretty sure your MIM Strat has a 9.5" radius, so it'll work fine with flat poles or staggered. Soundwise, it doesn't make much of a difference (IMO). Most people seem to like staggered poles for the vintage look.
Tim mentioned having a RW/RP middle, so when I order do I select the middle pickup as RW/RP and the others stock?
Yep. Then you'll have hum-cancelling in positions 2 and 4.
Cool. BUT! will the hum-cancelling still sound the same as it does now? I love the position 2 and 4 'wobble'.
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It is a slightly different sound - slightly flatter perhaps - I cant see the point myself, but I only really play the middle pickup on a strat (occasionally the neck, less so the bridge and hardly ever the in between).
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Some people say the "quack" in positions 2 and 4 is emphasised if you have a RW/RP middle. It's not a big difference, and I think the lack of hum itself is part of that difference.
The real die-hard vintage purists would say have all the pickups with the same polarity. They like their hum. :wink:
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RW/RP middle it is for me then! Thanks peeps.