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Title: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
Post by: greekdude 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?

Title: Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
Post by: DarthPhineas on October 25, 2015, 09:02:03 AM

Have you tweaked the pickup height?

Title: Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
Post by: greekdude 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.

Title: Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
Post by: DarthPhineas 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.

Title: Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
Post by: greekdude 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.

Title: Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
Post by: DarthPhineas on October 25, 2015, 03:03:05 PM

Sounds you got it figured out.

Are you referring to tapped harmonics?

Title: Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
Post by: greekdude on November 20, 2015, 05:41:45 AM

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

Title: Re: Blaze 7 neck : annoying imbalance while bending
Post by: DarthPhineas on November 20, 2015, 03:49:25 PM

Quote from: greekdude on November 20, 2015, 05:41:45 AM

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

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