Pickups (Gaps Between)
Pickups (Gaps Between)
Technical (Electric guitar) question:
What difference does the distance (gap) between the neck pickup and bridge pickup make on the tone/sound quality of the guitar?
that's the same answer everyone has already given...
if you decrease the gap between bridge and pickup, that means moving pickups.
move the bridge pup towards the neck, and that one won't be as chunky. move the neck pup towards the bridge and you get a tenser tone from that one. but tonewise on a guitar, it won't do jack I think. it's still the same amount of wood you use so the tone coming only from the guitar will be the same. any tonal differences will need to be blamed on the pickup position
Closer to bridge=accentuated higher frequencies, i.e. brighter. Less output. Exactly what Khali said