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Originally Posted by yegbert
Thanks for your splainin and your spearmint too, Terry. You have a way with words and a way with your playing! When I see all those bumps in the graph, it's very easy to just get confused. But I could just drift away in the beauty when you pluck that thang.
I installed a Tele single coil bridge pickup in my Squier Standard Tele Special (came with bridge HB) with just the absolute minimum wood removal, and that pickup by itself sounds quacky. I measured and found out it has the HB bridge pickup rout a little farther from the bridge end of the strings than even my Squier VM Tele Custom (also HB rout in bridge); and given my minimalist install of the Tele bridge pickup, it is also farther from the bridge end of the strings than my other Teles with their SC bridge pickups in the standard spec position.
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Noo. thank YOU for being YOU!
Yes, indeed. You mess with the Tele pickup position and slant relative to the bridge and a big change will occur in the sound.
Here is one of the plots of two pickups creating quack.
- The Y axis is amplitude
- The X axis is frequency (pretend you are looking at a mic frequency response plot)
- It is the 1st string played open
- 2 pickups, with their distances from the bridge shown
- Both pickups are the same volume level
- The pickup magnetic field width is estimated at 1 inch
- The yellow line is the fundamental frequency of the note
- The red bar is the range of fundamental frequencies of that string played up to the last fret
Notice the big notch at ~3kHz. It is > -40dB !!! That notch moves around with different notes. This is affecting the harmonics of the string.