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08-11-2006, 01:31 PM
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Hi, all,
Awhile back I had someone put wood covers on my Bartolinis. I swear I think they lost just a little bit of their clarity. Wood, especially that thin, shouldn't be able to do this. Am I hallucinating? |
08-11-2006, 01:36 PM
|  | Secret Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Why shouldn't it be able to do it? You are putting something solid between the magnets and the vibration.
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08-11-2006, 01:36 PM
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08-11-2006, 01:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Eureka Springs, Arkansas | | | The wood may be a little thicker than the plastic covers, so maybe your pickup is further from the string.
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08-11-2006, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by guy n. cognito Why shouldn't it be able to do it? You are putting something solid between the magnets and the vibration. | In *theory* it shouldn't do it because it is magnetically transparent, just like the plastic cover that it replaced. |
08-11-2006, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by guy n. cognito Why shouldn't it be able to do it? You are putting something solid between the magnets and the vibration. | Whatabout the solid plastic covers that were there before the wood.
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08-11-2006, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by DubDubs Whatabout the solid plastic covers that were there before the wood. |
My guess? Any cover over the pickup is going to have some effect on the tone received by the pickups. The wood must have a different effect.
I am guessing here, so IMHO.
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08-11-2006, 05:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Nashville Tennessee | | | Plastic and wood covers have no effect on the sound of a pickup. But, if they are made too thick that can force you to have to lower the pickups and this can effect the tone a good bit. |
08-11-2006, 06:41 PM
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08-11-2006, 07:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Nashville Tennessee | | | How so? |
08-11-2006, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Nashville Tennessee | | | I'm sorry. I miss read what you said. Need more Java! |
08-11-2006, 10:06 PM
|  | rythum rancher | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: on thin ice | | Interesting. Always wondered about wood covers.
Since everything (or so I've read) has a magnetic field, maybe the wood covers are somehow disrupting things?  |
08-11-2006, 10:43 PM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | The only way a wood cover will effect the magnetic field, is if the wood is silicious. meaning: it contains silica, which is basically, microscopic specs of glass/sand. The silica contains metals from the earth, and can very slightly disturb the gauss field, but other than this, it should not effect the tone too much. |
08-11-2006, 10:44 PM
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