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?

  • TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    When I bought my tele the pickups were way too high. The stronger magnetic field killed the sustain on thickers strings and actually affected the frequency produced on the higher frets. I would assume that a wall of pickups would have a similar negative effects.