Learning how to set your pickup’s height correctly is probably the most overlooked step in purchasing a set of pickups. It would be like buying a new car and not inflating the tires. Pickup height is a critical element of your guitar’s tone. Set too low, and your pickup is ineffici...
In this guide, we will show you a couple ways on how to install pickups on your electric guitar. Click here to learn more!
A hard mounted pickup, on the other hand, is bolted directly to the body. The pickup’s height is not adjustable at all. The height and placement of a hard mounted pickup is set when the pickup cavity is routed during construction of the guitar. You might ask why would any want a ...
a conventional guitar pickup is an electromagnetic mechanism that produces a magnetic field. Your guitar strings pass through this field, and when you pluck a string, the magnetic field is disrupted—an action that translates into an electrical signal. That signal is output to an ...
When you pick up, and you say, “Wow, this feels amazing,” usually that effect is produced in the last hour of the production of that guitar, so action is the name for the height of the strings, between the strings and the fretboard. Usually, when people don’t like the feel of ...
“Whenever I measure action, I always hold down the string at the first fret and then measure the distance between the top of the fret and the bottom of the string at the 12th fret. I hold it down at the 1st fret to eliminate any effect the nut has on the height of the string.”...
When you pick up, and you say, “Wow, this feels amazing,” usually that effect is produced in the last hour of the production of that guitar, so action is the name for the height of the strings, between the strings and the fretboard. Usually, when people don’t like the feel of ...
Guns N’ Roses – Don’t Cry (Slash guitar solo) (bar 41). Slide For a slide you start off plucking the first note and slide on the string up or down to the second. Song example with this technique: Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing (bar 5). In the tab below you would play ...
a figure-of-eight polar pattern picks up strongest from the front and back of the mic and rejects from the sides. Through strategic microphone placement, the dead zone created either side of a figure-of-eight mic can be used to your advantage when recording a singer that plays guitar at ...
on the body top. Consequently, if you move the mic too close, you’ll only pick up part of the sound and some positions will be particularly problematic. For example, if you get too close to the guitar’s soundhole you’ll pick up a lot of boominess because the soundhole acts as ...