Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending

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Offline greekdude

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Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
« on: October 25, 2015, 07:36:38 AM »
After setting my action very low (in the range of 1.3mm 24th fret low B, 1mm 24th fret high E), I noticed that especially the neck Blaze produces a very imbalanced tone while bending. Its like almost switching between parallel/in series kind of effect. It seems that when the string lies between the two magnetic fields of two pole pieces, the output is weak.
Any opinion on that?
Any remedy?

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Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2015, 09:02:03 AM »
Have you tweaked the pickup height?
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Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2015, 09:21:42 AM »
No didn't touch the pups this time. But the problem might be there before the last setup, and I might have not noticed due to playing only with distortion. What I am referring to as sounding weaker is most noticeable when playing clean.

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Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2015, 11:18:02 AM »
Try tweaking pickup height to suggested distances and then maybe trying it a little taller or lower from there to see if it keeps happening.

On the far outside of possibilities, when putting a full size humbucker in the neck slot of a 24 feet pickup, it shifts the pickup down closer to the bridge and alters the pickups positions under harmonic nodes.  I heard Satch talking about that at an event as to why he was trying a single spaced pickup on one of his 24 feet models. But....there are a lot of factors involved and I'd not put all my eggs in that basket.

Actually, I'm hearing something quite similar with the Illuminator neck in a regular 22 feet guitar, so I'm also curious about this. I talked to a non-DiMarzio pickup designer about it his past week for some unbiased opinions before I dig deeper. I find what I'm hearing a bit of a cool effect and have been thinking about ways to exploit it in my playing style.
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Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2015, 02:05:45 PM »
The reason is simple : weaker magnetic field between pole pieces rather than *on* pole pieces. Does not happen with any active or rails pup I have.
As far as harmonics are concerned, no problem at all, all sing out loud, at least better than my 21/22 fetters.

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Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2015, 03:03:05 PM »
Sounds you got it figured out.

Are you referring to tapped harmonics?
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Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2015, 05:41:45 AM »
to all of them : artificial, natural, etc..

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Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2015, 03:49:25 PM »

to all of them : artificial, natural, etc..


Yeah, that's not what I was referring to.
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