Does having too many pickups affect guitar tone, or sustain? Let’s suppose a guitar has eight pickups while another one has just one of the same type. Would there be a tone difference, if the mega-pickup one was only using one of its pickups in a similar position to the single pickup guitar? Or would the effect of the extra pickups be too small to notice?

  • raindrop1988@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well people do say that the magnetic attraction that the pickups have on the strings can reduce sustain. Ergo, more pickups = less sustain. Whether that effect would be noticeable is debatable.

    I have to say my first response to the pic was: “how much hum would a humbucker buck if a humbucker could buck hum?”.

    Edit: a word