How to adjust set pickup height on a stratocaster for ultimate strat tone.
Strat ceramic pickup height.
Your magnetic field floats above the pickup and if your strings are out of the field you won t get a rich full tone.
Start by setting all of your guitar pickups to 3 32 0 093 2 38mm on the bass side and 2 32 1 16 0 0625 1 98mm on the treble side.
The best place to start for pickup height adjustment.
Remember this is the space between the top of the pole piece and the.
And getting your pickups to this ballpark setting is actually quite easy.
But every pickup and guitar manufacturer has their own specifications.
With a sharp pencil mark the current height of the pickup where it emerges from the pickguard.
As long as you leave the tape on the covers you can always return to the old adjustments within seconds.
Setting your pickup height too low would cause your pickup not to be optimized for your guitar.
What is the best distance from the pickup to the strings for the best results.
I recently received an email from one of my pickup affectionados in germany asking a question that i realized is of ultimate importance in strat tone.
I put some seymour duncan pickups ssl1 alnico 5 on my fender strat and i just bought a squier telecaster bullet with the basic ceramic pickups both use the same kind of strings and both have locking tuners and both body are poplar wood and the difference is there.
We ve found 3 32 of an inch 2 381mm is a good place to start.