The best place to start for pickup height adjustment we ve found 3 32 of an inch 2 381mm is a good place to start.
Ceramic pickups height.
You might hear a warbling sound.
What should be the determining factor for your guitar s pickup height is what sounds preferable to your playing style.
Play the low e string at a high fret 15th fret is a good one to start at.
Bass side low e 1 16 1 6mm treble side high e 5 64 2 0mm middle pickup.
How to adjust set pickup height on a stratocaster for ultimate strat tone.
Alnico made pickups have more string pull than ceramic made pickups ceramic pickups can be pretty close to the strings without causing severe hassles just the signal to be oversaturated at strong pick attacks.
Here s a quick way to tell if this is happening to you.
Tune your guitar and place it on a table or a workbench with a towel or blanket underneath we measure pickup height from the top of the pickup to the bottom of the string while the string is pressed against the highest fret photo 1.
But every pickup and guitar manufacturer has their own specifications.
If you still need help picking out the pickup that is right for you keep in mind that.
But if you want a nice clean tone go alnico 5.
Setting pickup height too high.
It s a great help to use a capo on the top fret so you don t have to press the strings.
Those crappy ceramic bars glued next to steel slug things that come standard in so many strat s and strat copies today cannot really be made to sound good so a trip to the waste basket is the only course of treatment for them.
Use a good fit screwdriver and record the positions and your ears impressions.
The pickup height is the best and intended variable in adjusting tone and balance.
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Setting your pickup height too high will cause your magnets to push and pull your strings out of tune.
Start by setting all of your guitar pickups to 3 32 0 093 2 38mm on the bass side and 2 32 1 16 0 0625 1 98mm on the treble side.
Ceramic pickups have more bite wich helps get a crunchy sound even if can t afford a real classy tube amp.
Unfortunately there is no clear winner in our alnico vs ceramic magnets tug of war.
