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Post subject: Re: What is my guitar worth? and would it be suitable to mod
Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 1:02 pm
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53magnatone wrote:
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I'd be very interested to hear how you think heavy strings are going to damage the pickups.

Higher gauge strings put off much wider ranges of frequencies and on certain pickups; such as the ones on Strats; they make the sound much less clean. Even in the cleanest of settings it may still sound a little bit broken up. Pickups are not much more than magnets, and since strings are made of metal, they pull on the strings. If the pickups are close enough to the strings (due to their thickness) it can shorten sustain and over time damage the pickups due to the magnet not coping up with higher frequencies.


Where in the world did you get this idea from :?: :roll:
Seriously, a vibrating (oscillating ) string disrupts an electromagnetic field, that electrical interference signal is then sent to your amp... Layman explanation but frequencies are not present at the string to pickup location... The break up of sound you refer to has much more to do with a speakers capability to reproduce lower pitched notes, thus why bass amps use much larger diameter cones... The lower the pitch, the larger volume of air needs to be pushed..

I think you are taking two very separate phases of an electric guitar and the sound reproduced and not distinguishing between the variables... :?


Thank you. Guess that did a pretty good job of explaining stuff to me. Anyways, if he uses higher gauge strings, then he risks warping his neck and at the same time he risks voiding his warranty, I believe. Correct me, if I am wrong.

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Post subject: Re: What is my guitar worth? and would it be suitable to mod
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 12:53 pm
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53magnatone wrote:
Where in the world did you get this idea from :?:
Seriously, a vibrating (oscillating ) string disrupts an electromagnetic field, that electrical interference signal is then sent to your amp...

Just a very minor correction here ... Normal electric guitars use a "magnetic field" and not an "electromagnetic field". The magnetic field produced by electric guitars comes from permanent magnets. By contrast, an electromagnetic field uses electromagnets which are a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by using electric current -- same end effect, but how the magnetic field was created is different. Hence, a natural magnetic field is established using permanent magnets. By hitting the strings, this causes a disturbance to the magnetic field. Then - per Faraday's Law (I believe) - this fluctuating magnetic field induces electrical currents in the pickups' numerous windings of wire (conductor). The electrical current from these windings is what is eventually processed, amplified, and eventually output through the amplifier.

I agree with everything else that was said ...

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Post subject: Re: What is my guitar worth? and would it be suitable to mod
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 5:56 pm
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Post subject: Re: What is my guitar worth? and would it be suitable to mod
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 6:06 pm
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01GT eibach wrote:
Just a very minor correction here ... Normal electric guitars use a "magnetic field" and not an "electromagnetic field". The magnetic field produced by electric guitars comes from permanent magnets. By contrast, an electromagnetic field uses electromagnets which are a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by using electric current -- same end effect, but how the magnetic field was created is different.

You must be rather old, because this was the case until Einstein in the early 20th century nailed down that which Maxwell and Faraday suspected, electric and magnetic fields were not just similar, but the same. Only the frame of reference dictates whether it's seen as an electric or magnetic field or some of both.
Thus a field caused by electromagnetism is known as an electromagnetic field (EMF).

How the field is produced has absolutely no relevance - it's an electromagnetic field also when created by static magnets.

Particle physicists may refer to it as a photonic field, but the rest of us call what static magnets produce an electromagnetic field. If we want to make clear that from our frame of reference, it's magnetic only, we call it a magnetic field - whether it's caused by electric coils or static magnets.


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