We ve found 3 32 of an inch 2 381mm is a good place to start.
Strat ceramic pickup height.
As long as you leave the tape on the covers you can always return to the old adjustments within seconds.
I recently received an email from one of my pickup affectionados in germany asking a question that i realized is of ultimate importance in strat tone.
Start by setting all of your guitar pickups to 3 32 0 093 2 38mm on the bass side and 2 32 1 16 0 0625 1 98mm on the treble side.
What should be the determining factor for your guitar s pickup height is what sounds preferable to your playing style.
The best place to start for pickup height adjustment.
I put some seymour duncan pickups ssl1 alnico 5 on my fender strat and i just bought a squier telecaster bullet with the basic ceramic pickups both use the same kind of strings and both have locking tuners and both body are poplar wood and the difference is there.
How to adjust set pickup height on a stratocaster for ultimate strat tone.
To start put a towel a piece of foam or a blanket on a table or your workbench tune your strat and then place it on the work surface.
With a sharp pencil mark the current height of the pickup where it emerges from the pickguard.
Remember this is the space between the top of the pole piece and the.
Your magnetic field floats above the pickup and if your strings are out of the field you won t get a rich full tone.
Setting the pickup height too high can cause interference with your guitar strings 2 setting pickup height too low.
And getting your pickups to this ballpark setting is actually quite easy.