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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
In addition, the air gap between the bobbin and the plate can induce microphonic squeals. Perfect for Roy Buchanan imitations.
microphonic squeals - a good thing??
Leo Fender originally added a baseplate as he was working with weak assed alnico 3 magnets ... and a steel plate gave them a boost ... the side effect was it made the tele sound like a Tele.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Being an old fart, my brain approaches the sound question from the other end. I consider the sound with a baseplate to be normal. To my ears, the sound without the plate lacks some of the edginess that I want to hear. (I am heavily biased towards the early Blackguard Fender electric Spanish guitar.)
At the behest of Jerry Donahue, Fender attempted to build a signature Stratocaster that combined Strat and Tele sounds in one guitar. Part of their solution was to wind the bridge position pickup with the copper wire gauge associated with Telecasters and add a steel plate on the underside. It almost succeeds. The Seymour Duncan production line version of this pickup is called the APST-1 Twangbanger.
Nowadays us pickup makers tend to use nickel plated nickel ... as nickel is much more transparent to the pickup's magnetic field ... and thus you loose less treble. Allowing you to roll off a bit of treble at the pot if you want a trad tele neck sound ... but giving you the option of more crispness out of the box.
If you steel covered a Tele pickup you'd get no sound :-)
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