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What are the intentions of placing staggered pole magnets on what is marketed as vintage pick ups on strats?
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Back when they first made the pickups people used heavy gauge strings with wound Gs. The staggered magnets helped balanced the string-to-string level.
These days they just do it because that's how the old guitars were and people think they want everything vintage.
Personally I hate the vintage staggered pickups. They sound uneven to me.It 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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Like David said, that's how it was done.
Interestingly, I just got reintroduced to that concept. Just picked up a Strat with the 57/62 pickup set and the neck and middle pups have the vintage stagger. AAMOF they are probably the most authentically vintage pups I've seen from them (not that these are the only ones they make, just I don't much play recent Fender products much). These are relatively low power winds.
I want my B string back.
The Bridge pickup has a neck radius type stagger and balances just fine. But the others are "vintage" and for no very good reason.
Otherwise these are some excellent pickups. Just there's no B string.Comment
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