Pre-tin the humbucker cover on the edges you sanded with a high quality solder. You only need a tiny bit. Apply the humbucker cover, and use the soldering pencil to flow new solder on to the inside edge of the humbucker cover and the baseplate. Use a heat gun or hair dryer to heat the face of the humbucker cover and flow the wax. This will prevent microphonics. Follow these steps for a fool-proof installing and removing process.
Along with managing the shop and working on this Website, I run my own website to provide free Jazz Guitar lessons. The cover is metal so it needs grounding as well as metal dampening, or else the cover will generate buzz and be microphonic.
Your email address will not be published. Previous Next. Sand the Inside Edges of the Humbucker Cover Use sandpaper to sand the inside edges of the humbucker cover. Some manufacturers create pickups with additional protection while others opt for a coverless option. The answer is not so much. While some say that there is a slight change in the treble, in reality, the change is so small that it is difficult to notice at all.
Even if there is a change at all, you can compensate for it via an amplifier. One of the first things you might hear is that removing the cover will allow the pickup to sound brighter and more open. Even Clapton said that removing the nickel cover will make the pickups sound different. So what is the truth? In reality, the difference mostly comes from the height of the pickups or screws at the poles. If you adjust both covered and uncovered pickups to the same height, the sound will be almost the same.
You can see the difference in the pickup setting between the two types here, where there is an obvious difference in height. There are so many discussions about this topic, and the only right answer is to determine if there is a difference at all by yourself.
The main role of the cover on magnets is protection. If your guitar has covered pickups, it is less likely that you will damage the coils of the magnet. Furthermore, with pickups covered, there is less chance that something will get into the pickup itself. The coil itself is quite fragile and if there is no protective tape, you can easily break the winding.
Another important role of covers is aesthetics. Depending on the model of the guitar, as well as color, a nice cover can make a lot of difference and improve the look of the instrument. Naturally, the whole cover thing is rather subjective, and some players love the look of the coverless pickups. It is worth mentioning that both single coils and humbuckers come in both options.
The first and most obvious is plastic. This is especially common with Stratocasters, where the cover will have holes for the magnetic poles that are under each string. Of course, there are pickups with full cover where nothing is sticking out of it. Lace Sensor, for example, has a full plastic cover on its single-coil models.
When it comes to plastic, it is also possible to find covers for humbuckers with this material. Naturally, plastic is not the only material used for covering pickups.
The second most common one is metal. Sometimes, manufacturers will use chrome or nickel. This is especially common for Les Pauls where the cover has holes for poles of one coil of the pickup while the other remains fully covered.
Finally, you can find covers from unusual materials like wood. The design and changes in material are purely cosmetic, and there are almost no changes to the tone. That would be a much larger undertaking and I'd suggest at that point buying pickups with covers to try out.
I have taken off covers before IMHO it will not affect the sound It will just look different If you use a soldering iron, it will have to be a relatively powerful one Those 10 dollar stick soldering irons will not work I added pickup covers to my SG Special. It took just a tiny bit of "harshness" out of the tone, which I like! It does help with interference problems to keep the covers on. As for removing the covers, pull the pickups out, heat the 2 soldered spots on the back of each pickup with a soldering iron to melt the solder, then quickly run a razor blade through the solder between the pickup and the cover.
Then simply pull the covers off! I will work up the corage to do it at some point I think Im not usually one for modding guitars much beyond changing the action and the thought of molesting the natural state of such an expensive guitar, well it makes me think more than twice about it even though I know this isnt exactly a mod or that difficult, but still :.
In fact your stock pickups have already been wax potted! All you have to do is make sure you get the pickup cover on tight, with clamps.
You also may have to scrape away a tad of the plating on the cover and the base of the pickup to get a good solder, but not if you have a good, high watt iron. You can watch some very good videos on Youtube ; In fact, the hardest part of the whole process was mounting the pickups back into the pickguard due to the springs on the adjustment screws lol. Good Luck! Gibson hasn't potted anything in Epoxy since the 80's. If it's a Burst Bucker pro it will be wax potted though.
It is true that with a covered p-up a situation develops where 'stray capacitance' is created and where certain upper-frequencies may leak from the coils to the p-up cover and go to earth, killing-off these frequencies. The value of this capacitance is, however, very small indeed.
I'm sure this difference in frequency response can be measured with sensitive electrician's equipment but to the average human ear? And in a live band setting? You must be kidding.
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