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Got a humbucker route and want to to put in a DiMarzio Area 67 and another to-be-determined pickup (suggestion, Tele perhaps?) right next to one another. Might the magnets interact and screw things up somehow?
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I can't say for sure about those particular pickups (especially since one is undetermined)... But I have put two humbuckers as close together as the plastic mount rings would allow and no problems so far. Take a look see at Steve Morse's Tele that he played with the Dixie Dregs. Pickups just rowed right up next to each other, singles and humbuckers, all the way from the bridge saddles to the fingerboard. He seems to do all right with it.
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I've done a few informal experiments with that sort of thing, I haven't found any reason to think there is a problem. I suppose it is possible for certain pickups if they had magnets mounted on the sides or something strange, but I doubt it.
Any changes that might occur would be from excessive string pull (probably not an issue if you adjust them correctly) or if you wire them up strangely. Sometimes people do weird things trying to squeeze an extra pickup position onto a switch or something.Comment
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Some people say that ceramic pickups shall not be in installed with AlNiCo pickups in the same guitar because the ceramic weaken AlNiCo.
I have never seen this happen but I can't say for sure it doesn't happen, I don't know everything.
Someone has experienced it?Comment
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Wont happen.Originally posted by Artur pickupmaker View PostIt would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. — Albert Einstein
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That's what I thogh.
A big brazilian pickup maker convinced his customers that the ceramics slowly discharges AlNiCos if were installed in the same guitar, and it is only noticed after many years. He says everyone not to put ceramics and AlNiCos in the same guitar.
Just funny.Comment
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