pete692
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Any of you guys able to live with a little warble on a strat when you get the pickups where you need them to be? My CS '69s have been set real low for about a year now, but I've been experimenting and found that they really come alive when I jack them up. Only problem is, right when they reach the sweet spot, and get really juicy, the G and D (staggered poles) strings warble just a hair when fretted above the 12th fret, especially with distortion. All the chords stay intonated fine and I can mask the warble with vibrato, but is this viewed as an absolute no no by the experts? I got the rough measurements for this from a Dan Erlewine set-up book where he gives artists pickup heights, and their pup heights are crazy close to the strings.
Before everybody tells me to just lower them and make up the gain by turning up the amp or boosting with pedals, I'll tell you right now, it's definitely not the same.
Before everybody tells me to just lower them and make up the gain by turning up the amp or boosting with pedals, I'll tell you right now, it's definitely not the same.