Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a trick that helped me. For sometime now I have changed the pickups on my guitar to SD hot rodded set but always felt like sound was missing something. I went through a lot of forums- luthier/guitar manufacturer websites to collect recommended pick up heights. But still it didn’t help completely.
One of the other topics discussed was pole piece heights, there were three approaches:
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Get the pole piece heights similar to fretboard radius (it didn’t help)
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Don’t touch the pole pieces (even some pickup manufacturers tells so but obviously didn’t help my case)
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Use your ear to get each string sounding same loudness ( I think it’s a good approach but since I am not a seasoned player my ear is not well trained and I completely got derailed)
Finally last night I had an idea to get a decibel meter for my phone and use it to adjust polepieces. Amp eq set to flat I adjusted each pole pieces so that each string has the similar decibel value. And suddenly I had a very balanced nice sounding pickup which especially helps with high gain stuff.
TLDR: use a decibel meter/ sound meter to adjust your pole pieces (with flat amp eq)so that each string has the same value.
I hope this helps out people struggling with their sound like me
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