Simple tips on choosing electric guitar pickups and boss

Choosing a guitar pickup is actually not an easy thing. Because we will not know his voice before we try it is not it ?, For one already understand about pickup, maybe they already know how to choose a good quality picukp for the type of sound he meant. Because they probably already understand every pickup brand.

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Many of the beginners play guitar to find out the sound samples on youtube vedeo about pickup. but partly when they've bought a lot different pickup sounds as they see in the vedeo. Several factors can happen this way, it may be very clear that the guitars we use are very much different in quality like the one in vedeo yutube. And so it may be the way we play.

Maybe this is the short solution to see the right pickup.

1. active or passive
   Active pickup requires battery power to work, using a potential of 25 K, and different from passive pickups that call for 250K or 500K.
   The entry of the output from the guitar jack TRS (tip ring sleve), or many that call the stereo jack, which works also for on / of for the battery inside the guitar.
   No need to worry about replacing it with an active pickup because it is supported by a TRS device, its battery potency and battery compartment can be useful. We must replace the pot with the appropriate and change the wiring.

2. For neck or bridge position
   Each pickup, specially designed for use. There is also a pickup for neck, middle and bridge, because in each guitar has a different sound character. May lead to bridge sound getting slow, has a sharp character and a bit out of bass.
   So pickup for special bridge position with bigger output, and bass bass character added, treble character in subtract.
   The guitar sound source in the neck position opposite of the bridge position, the original character of the guitar sound in the neck position is very bassy, ​​and tends to be dull, or not treble.
   So pickup for this position so as not to get out too bass, and added treble levels.
   If we mistakenly place the bridge pickup in pairs in the neck position, then the result will be very dazzling and very dull bass, with excessive output, it becomes difficult to find the right sound from the wrong pickup in pairs.

3. Humbucker and single coil
   Humbucker type pickup is introduced by gibson is very functional to minimize noise, pickup Humbucker
   sized two times greater than single coil, now there is also a pickup humbucker are small, useful for US want sound humbucker shaped single coil.
   humbucker also can split or have two characters sound, that is humbucker and single coil, because it has 2 ICs and using potensio stereo to switch. humbucker have characters thick, has the output greater.

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Picture from google.

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Single coil has a sharper character and treble sound, small size, only half the size of Humbucker pickup.

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Picture from google

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Each ordinary pickup factory only provides three high outputs, medium and low. Pickup with output will usually produce a cleaner soud. The bigger the output the easier it will be to get the distortion. If a guitarist really likes playing ditorsi, then the choice is hi-output, and if you are a blues or pop guitarist, the usual choice is medium or low-output. And can be more than one pickup we use on our guitar, and select the appropriate output. With the largest bridge of output, medium to medium position, and for medium or low output neck.

5.magnet ceramic or alnico
Only two magnets for pickup manufacture, because based on its appeal, with these two magnets can produce a good sound. There is much debate about these two magnets, some say better ceramic and some say alnico is better.
And it depends on the character of the output of the pickup with the same specification just different magnet, the point is more alnico magnet with sharp sound and harsh.

Just these simple tips to see guitar and bass pickup characters.

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