Does having too many pickups affect guitar tone, or sustain? Let’s suppose a guitar has eight pickups while another one has just one of the same type. Would there be a tone difference, if the mega-pickup one was only using one of its pickups in a similar position to the single pickup guitar? Or would the effect of the extra pickups be too small to notice?

  • pr06lefs@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    I have a guitar with a truckload of pickups. But I’ve never detected any vibrato - where the pitch oscillates up and down. Maybe this effect is not noticeable if the pickups are at a typical distance from the strings.