Ideal Ceramic Humbucker Pup Height

Somewhere there s a nice height that gets enough output from the strings without interfering with their vibration.

Ideal ceramic humbucker pup height.

You can improve your tone by properly adjusting the polepiece height on most humbuckers. I love vintage a2 a3 a5 magnet pickups. It will take a bit of. As stated earlier quality humbuckers with alnico magnets are quite forgiving of height adjustments compared to fender style single coils.

The truth is that you might find the tone you are looking for anywhere from the closest you can get those puppies to the strings all the way to as far as you can get them away from the strings about 6 7mm. The perfect pickup height depends on your particular pickups your strings and of course personal taste. If you have very powerful humbuckers lower the pickup height a tad. Some of my favorite pickups have ceramic magnets i like not love the sound of mim ceramic single coils they sound really stratty the 80 s mij low output ceramic pickups almost sound more vintage to me than real vintage pickups.

Here s a quick way to tell if this is happening to you. Setting your pickup height too high will cause your magnets to push and pull your strings out of tune. Don t set humbuckers closer than 4 64 1 6mm don t set fender type pickups closer than 6 64 2 4mm don t set p bass closer than 6 64 2 4mm and j bass closer than 5 64 2mm. 1 setting pickup height too high.

I love humbuckers too same deal.