Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
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Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
What is your preference?
In most scenarios I prefer a cover. I also dislike the company name being visible on the pickups.
While I admit there is a slight sonic difference between covered and uncovered and even between metal type on covered pickups, I still prefer covered in most instances.
In most scenarios I prefer a cover. I also dislike the company name being visible on the pickups.
While I admit there is a slight sonic difference between covered and uncovered and even between metal type on covered pickups, I still prefer covered in most instances.
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
I'd have thought that plastic covers wouldn't affect tone seeing as they theoretically shouldn't interfere with magnetic fields and flux.
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
My bad, I failed to mention I was referring to humbuckers. I am not much of a traditional single coil or p90 guy. On humbuckers, the metal material can change things. Nickel vs gold vs. uncovered. The gold will effect things most. Nickel effects the least.Monkey Man wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 2:09 am I'd have thought that plastic covers wouldn't affect tone seeing as they theoretically shouldn't interfere with magnetic fields and flux.
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
Yeah, I was imagining HB's with plastic covers.
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
Call me crazy but I am not sure I have ever seen a humbucker with a plastic pickup cover.
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
Aren’t EMG covers plastic?
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
That doesn't count, they are actives.Findthetone1 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:58 pmAren’t EMG covers plastic?
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
Yup, that 'splains it Brother Rocky.
I was imagining Magnetic, EMG, Bartolini and so on, PU's I'd used on geetars and basses in the past, all of which were actives.
I was imagining Magnetic, EMG, Bartolini and so on, PU's I'd used on geetars and basses in the past, all of which were actives.
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
I tend to prefer non covered humbuckers. I've tried nickel covered a few times and just couldn't shake the feeling like the metal covers were contributing to oscillations/ring in the pickup feedback quality like the pickup was either more dampened or less dampened depending on how you looked at it.
I've also played a Suhr Aldrich gold covered in a Les Paul and it was a pretty ripping pickup in that guitar but in my guitars I'm still uncovered that in my guitar stable right now.
Probably is just a mental block thing... but it's what I perceived nonetheless.
I've also played a Suhr Aldrich gold covered in a Les Paul and it was a pretty ripping pickup in that guitar but in my guitars I'm still uncovered that in my guitar stable right now.
Probably is just a mental block thing... but it's what I perceived nonetheless.
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Re: Covered vs. Uncovered Pickups
Sounds legit to me brother.
If you felt you perceived "oscillations/ring in the pickup feedback quality" or whatever, perhaps you did, and as Rocky implied and any clear-thinking mind might conclude, it makes no sense to use materials that affect magnetic fields and flux unless there's a specific effect you're aiming for.
If you felt you perceived "oscillations/ring in the pickup feedback quality" or whatever, perhaps you did, and as Rocky implied and any clear-thinking mind might conclude, it makes no sense to use materials that affect magnetic fields and flux unless there's a specific effect you're aiming for.
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