Re:Hello everybody, I'm new here....
(Date Posted:27-10-2009 04:02:54)
Welcome to the board.
Well, I don´t believe in this magnet aging thing at all. Ceramic magnets definetely don´t go weak.
All magnets can be demagnetized(up to a point), but how could that happen in a guitar pickup?
I think the phenomen of guitar pickups getting weaker is caused by the winding. It´s the same thing
with transformers getting weak during the years. There are more and more microscopic shortings
in the winding(partial short), dropping the power of the pickup (output voltage).
Another point is the winding gets looser over the years, adding/cutting frequencies and harmonics-noise,
response to the guitar´s resonance.
(Many pickups sound even better(sweeter) by dropping some amount of windings from the pickup)
Changing magnets on a new pickup with some old one (old PAF etc.) has an effect because back
then they were crafted different than today.
That´s only my opinion and others may differ.
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