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Originally Posted by RocketshipChair
The way I set mine up is like this. I lower the bridge pickup to the lowest position (ussually to the point where it is touching the buttom of the pickup route). I then adjust the neck pickup height until the volume of the two pickups is equal. This way the pickups tend to take more tone from the wood, while adding more bass to the bridge pickup and avoiding the dreaded icepick tone that can occur with a telecaster.
Than again this approach isn't for everyone. I'm very unconvential with things like nice. I also have a habbit of turning my mids up to the highest setting to make up for all the metal heads in the world who scope theirs.
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I don't really understand this- what is the mechanism whereby an electromagnetic pickup gets tone from the wood? The only thing I can think of is that it vibrates the pickup in relation to the strings. I always figured that any harmonics from the body that are heard in an electric guitar's output were transferred to the strings and picked up by the pickups; improvements in sustain come from helping the strings to ring longer. I'm open-minded about this- I'm not saying it doesn't happen- but I'd like to hear a theory about how it happens. I think my theory about it vibrating the pickup in relation to the strings is pretty weak.