One for the techs if you please....
I'm gonna soon swap out the neck pup on my Charvel wild card as its somewhat unbalanced in output next to the JB bridge.
Anyways, I've noticed that the neck pup pole pieces are way off with the strings, especially on the bass side. Does this matter? I don't think it's a flaw with this particular guitar as I have seen it on other examples, but it does seem strange to me. It must effect the sound somehow, no?
Here's a crapy ipad pic to demonstrate......
Am I best going for something like cool rails if a Strat style will never align?
As always, cheers
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Doesn't seem to effect the performance though.
The Irony is, the only thing they corrected in the Wide Range reissues was the pole spacing! Everything else was shite!
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Turned out the problem was me... I had inadvertantly turned the neck tone pot way down while switching back and forth on the push/pull split. When I turned it back up, the punch and definition came right back- imagine that, durrr... It does sort of irritate my sense of aesthetics, but whatever- the guitar sounds fantastic, and that's all that really matters, right?
I still wonder what, exactly, a coil split accomplishes on a single coil pickup. In/out of phase? I'd look it up on Schecter's website, but this model is not listed there. Must be a special run. ( I couldn't find ANY with Duncan Designed soapbar pickups on the site for that matter)
I do a couple of tapped singles myself, my Diesel Tap Tele bridge pickup is wound to around 6.8k like a fairly standard Tele unit, and an output wire taken out to a brass eyelet. then I carry on winding to well over 10k before putting a 'finishing' output. That then means that you can switch in high or low power.
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Not so much wisdom of the internet but a way to sell people pickups back in the 80s!
More cosmetic than anything. Although wider bridge pickup coils sound different and you have to compensate in the design.
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