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Pickup replacement on GtPro - sizes?


steverino

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Hello everyone,

 

I have a recently purchased Steinberger Spirit GtPro which I think is a great fun guitar and one I keep picking up despite having other great guitars in my arsenal.

 

I would however like to change the pickups and am a little confused about string spacing (pole positions).

Is the Spirit GtPro compatible with traditional pickups or are the string spaced too far apart.

My understanding was that if the strings weren't perfectly aligned with the pickup coils then there would be a loss of transfer and the pickups would sound muddy.

 

I know that rails might solve this issue but the pickups I was looking at are the traditional (non-rail) style.

 

Am I worrying about nothing or is this something I need to take into account

What are my options?

 

Thanks

Steve

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  • 8 months later...

to follow up on this question, i would like to replace the neck single coil of my GTpro standard with whatever comes closest to a jazzy/middysound. Hotter output too. Lookin at http://www.zzounds.com/item--SEMSTR1 seymour duncan quarter pounder

 

would that fit?

is there a better choice?

 

thanks!

d.

 

 

Hello everyone,

 

I have a recently purchased Steinberger Spirit GtPro which I think is a great fun guitar and one I keep picking up despite having other great guitars in my arsenal.

 

I would however like to change the pickups and am a little confused about string spacing (pole positions).

Is the Spirit GtPro compatible with traditional pickups or are the string spaced too far apart.

My understanding was that if the strings weren't perfectly aligned with the pickup coils then there would be a loss of transfer and the pickups would sound muddy.

 

I know that rails might solve this issue but the pickups I was looking at are the traditional (non-rail) style.

 

Am I worrying about nothing or is this something I need to take into account

What are my options?

 

Thanks

Steve

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i also have steinberger spirit pro in black which is made in Korea.

The string spacing as measured is 49 mm at the bridge ,48 at the middle

and 47 at the neck.Taken that into consideration the only pickups

i have found with similar spacing are some artec P90 dog ears ,

but the dimensions of the dog ears do not fit in the cavities

of the spirit .Anyway the standard steinberger pickups are ok

for the moment except from the middle single coil which seems

to be not well balanced with the humbucker in neck and bridge.

I have been thinking of replacing the pickups a lot

and i would not prefer a blade pickup as i think they are for metal

which is not my cup of tea.

Would a standard pickup with 50mm spacing both in neck and bridge

work well in that guitar or there would be a problem with sound

especially in the neck position which has the narrower spacing?

People who have done the replacement with the standard gibson

spacing (Not the F-spaced which is the latest standard even for gibson),

have they noticed any problems ?

That would help me a lot make my decissions on what to use to replace

the steinberger pickups.

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