Why is this happening?

[madialex]

Ok so i wind a PU, just messing around trying to find another useable tone. The PU sounds good, everything is fine right?

Ok heres what is happening- The harmonic you get at the fifth fret is not there, well it is but you can barely hear it. The harmonic at the 8th and 12th frets are normal. I may not be using the term right. It is when you mute the string at the 5th fret and the harmonic you hear, like when you tune the guitar and you do the mute thing at the 5th fret on the one string and the 8th fret on the next string thing.

Anyone with more scale knowledge or whatever to answer this would be very much appreciated. It is bugging the living daylights out of me

PS. This is on a strat single, I have it in the neck position at the moment.

[Sock Puppet]

I bet you a shilling you have it in the neck position...

Here, (24th fret) the equivalent 5th fret harmonic is effectively at a zero crossing point for the waveform and you get... well you can hear what you don't get.

S.

[Sock Puppet]

Apologies, no shilling needed.

Didn't see that.

http://www.till.com/articles/PickupResponse/index.html

S.

[Zhangliqun]

You're not going to get much in the way of overtones out of any neck pu beyond the 12th fret/1st octave one. (If you do, then your pickup is WAAAAAYYY too bright!)

[madialex]

Ahhh, makes sense now. I guess I just never noticed it before.... Thanks a lot for the replies........