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  • Tilting pickups

    One of the many reasons why a SC pickup has a different tone than a dual-coil HB is because the full sensing area lies directly under the string by virtue of the sort of "U-turn" arrengement that two sets of polepieces coupled to a common bar magnet conveniently creates. In contrast, the string is essentially at right angles to the sensing area of a SC pickup.

    So, I'm wondering if any of you have ever dickered around with tilting a SC pickup by some amount less than 90 degrees such that it did not have the full sensing area equally placed below the string, but had more of it placed there?

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    Hi Mark,

    I've tried something with one-coil-per-pole coils (messing about) at various angles, trying to find something a bit different but didn't think to listen for that "humbucker?" type of sound.

    Not the same thing I know but it made me think it would be interesting to try a variable width humbucker with two single coils that might have a separation up to 4" between poles or so.

    Having re-read that there might be only me who knows where the hell that came from.

    S.

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