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eddie_bowers · 06-16-2008, 03:41 PM

It may not be your issue, but it CAN be the pickup hight. Both pickups can be the same loudness, but combined they cancel each other out. Adjust one down a bit (making it only slightly quieter) and it can make the middle position level go up.
Again, this might not be your problem, but this CAN happen. What your doing is causing the magnetic vibrations of the string to hit the pickup slightly later (like less than nanoseconds) preventing the phase cancelation issues.

With a strat you can make that work for you a bit more to get that cluck or quack sound by making the adjacent pickups not paralell (cocking the middle one more to the treble side). Listen to just about any Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar part and thats the sound.

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eddie_bowers Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 298 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 1 Post	Re: Wiring up the toggle switch???? It may not be your issue, but it CAN be the pickup hight. Both pickups can be the same loudness, but combined they cancel each other out. Adjust one down a bit (making it only slightly quieter) and it can make the middle position level go up. Again, this might not be your problem, but this CAN happen. What your doing is causing the magnetic vibrations of the string to hit the pickup slightly later (like less than nanoseconds) preventing the phase cancelation issues. With a strat you can make that work for you a bit more to get that cluck or quack sound by making the adjacent pickups not paralell (cocking the middle one more to the treble side). Listen to just about any Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar part and thats the sound.