Twincam Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Was thinking of doing some experimenting with a rear twin jazz pickup. Bar magnets mounted to the bottom of pole pieces. E string magnets are just smaller snapped bits of magnet. Would it be worth removing the weak bar magnets and attaching little neodymium ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooky_lowdown Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Yes, the neo's are like pumping steroids into a pickup. 👍 I did it to an epi eb0, stock pickup is crazy low output, swopped the magnets with neo ones and it made a massive difference. 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 I bought 60mm long neo bar magnets from Ali-Ex. Still never got round to trying them,but my plan was leave the old ones in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twincam Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 3 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said: Yes, the neo's are like pumping steroids into a pickup. 👍 I did it to an epi eb0, stock pickup is crazy low output, swopped the magnets with neo ones and it made a massive difference. 😀 I had an eb0 that other than the tone, and maybe the bridge I really liked. What was the difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooky_lowdown Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 41 minutes ago, Twincam said: I had an eb0 that other than the tone, and maybe the bridge I really liked. What was the difference? More output and aggressive sounding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twincam Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 49 minutes ago, hooky_lowdown said: More output and aggressive sounding. Instead of mud? Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Unscientific 5 minute test. 6mm x 1mm Neodym disc placed at the bottom of alnico 5 pole piece. Not a great deal of difference. Same size disc placed on the exposed pole piece. Massive jump in output but I'm getting a weird almost tremolo vibe,probably the wrong use of words 😀 Up at 5am so that's as far as I'll get tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 I would guess that the tremoloish sound is possibly due to the magnetic pull on the strings - lowering the pickups into the body might help with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooky_lowdown Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 5 hours ago, Twincam said: Instead of mud? Lol Depends on your technique. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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