merciful-evans Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 I've just caught this from Phil McKnight. I am genuinely surprised. When he was playing with the pickup removed, at first I thought he was hitting the string harder, but he repeated this test 10 times to average out differences. As Phil notes, it seems more pertinent to say the note/chord sounds less compressed with no neck pickup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Lots of front pickups sit directly under a node mid-way between 12th fret and the saddles where the string stops. You may be hearing the difference between a pickup directly under that node possibly robbing some ring and vibration and just wood under there reflecting ring and vibration. I'm not a physicist, nor do I play one on the Beeb. But I have had problems with some guitars not ringing the harmonics right over the front pickup, can't get them no matter what. It's just maff and string length and stuff. rct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 8 hours ago, ghost_of_fl said: Good to know, because there are all these songs I want to play but they require playing one chord and holding it for 30+ seconds without hitting the strings again. 🤥 Ahh... I'm awaiting the youtub vids with baited breath... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 8 hours ago, ghost_of_fl said: Good to know, because there are all these songs I want to play but they require playing one chord and holding it for 30+ seconds without hitting the strings again. 🤥 Somehow I've managed to miss those solos from those guitars that 'sustain all day'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 25 minutes ago, merciful-evans said: Somehow I've managed to miss those solos from those guitars that 'sustain all day'. Just process them like Brian Eno does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHenry Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Following on from what RCT said, don't forget pickup's are magnetic, if it's too close to the string it's going to effect the vibrations them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 I think there's probably some small amount of magnetic pull on the strings. Plus, the thing Ron was saying about the nodes thingy probably magnificates the whole situatation. So when the nodes don't line up with the pickup location, maybe it attenuatizes the volumation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihcmac Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Could be why a LP Junior with one P90 seems to ring out more than a LP Special with two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 42 minutes ago, badbluesplayer said: I think there's probably some small amount of magnetic pull on the strings. Plus, the thing Ron was saying about the nodes thingy probably magnificates the whole situatation. So when the nodes don't line up with the pickup location, maybe it attenuatizes the volumation. yea,, it's always a possibility, and don't forget that the fluxnnotor that makes the retusfram arc inside the winding often will create an offset in an a perpendicular pattern that obscures even the slightest arbiration. One has to keep these things in mind you know... Just stayin... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihcmac Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 There may be many variables at play. Like the Flux Capacitor on the 59 LP P90 inside my Epi Junior, the Epi always out performed my Gibson, maybe because it was a much cheaper guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 in my past life, I were a guitarist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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