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Post by Infinite Ego on Jul 13, 2017 15:05:34 GMT -5
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Post by mirth on Jul 14, 2017 14:14:38 GMT -5
Interesting, I've never really liked the neck pickup on 24 fret guitars, but love them on 21 and 22 frets. They just seem wrong on 24 frets, I can never get them to sound the way I want.
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Post by Infinite Ego on Jul 14, 2017 17:00:42 GMT -5
Single coils I'm fine with no matter what but I don't tend to care for neck hum buckers except in 24 fret guitars
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Post by sonicdeviant on Jul 14, 2017 21:14:02 GMT -5
Is it the scale length that makes the neck H sound brighter on 24 frets?
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Post by Infinite Ego on Jul 14, 2017 21:54:54 GMT -5
watch the gif in the link. It's not really the scale length but moving things around to accommodate the two addition frets.... the bridge has to move as well as the pickup placement
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Post by asb on Jul 15, 2017 21:54:30 GMT -5
It depends largely on the tone I wish to achieve but yes you can get some nice things with the neck pickups on 24-fretters.
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Post by voodoohighway on Jul 26, 2017 4:19:09 GMT -5
.... the bridge has to move as well ... Please pardon my ignorance, but why would the bridge have to move? Isn't scale length based on the distance from the nut to the bridge. |
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Post by Infinite Ego on Jul 26, 2017 8:14:57 GMT -5
the nodal points move. watch a guitar string vibrate in super slow mo and you'll see why they place pups where they do
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Post by voodoohighway on Jul 26, 2017 13:13:48 GMT -5
the nodal points move. watch a guitar string vibrate in super slow mo and you'll see why they place pups where they do I understand that, but if the distance from the nut to the 12th fret, is different from the distance from the 12th fret to the bridge, I don't see how intonation wouldn't be an issue. I am not trying to be difficult, I have just never seen this on any of my guitars, or any I have worked on. |
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Post by mirth on Jul 26, 2017 14:04:08 GMT -5
I'm not sure how the nodal points would change either. 25.5 scale length wouldn't change...the string would vibrate the same way regardless of how many frets there are on it. So I would think only the neck would need to move....unless there is an issue with magnetism or something makes the pickups interfere with each other.
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Post by Infinite Ego on Jul 26, 2017 19:09:06 GMT -5
I think I misunderstood your question. The neck is moved such that you only get two frets into the body so the bridge goes with it to maintain the scale length. The pickups may or may not move, that would be a variable, it depends on the sound you want. I think we were talking about diff. things, my bad. But, in short, if the nut is moving away from the bridge the latter would have to follow otherwise you end up with a diff. scale length. Watch the .gif presentation
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