Strat Pickup height adjustment

The height of your pickups is crucial to your tone. I find that the better the quality of the pickup the more sensitive they are to changes in height. Pickup Height Adjustment is an essential part of your sound, it's worth finding out a bt about it.
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What I mean by height adjustment is setting the distance from the top of the pickup to the bottom of the string. It's like how close to the microphone you're singing. But it doesn't just change how loud your guitar is - there's a lot more to it.

There is, of course, no correct distance from the string so the measurements I’ll give you are a guide and a great place to start. I recommend you set your MrGlyn’s Pickups to these heights when you install them but feel free to tweak them to your own taste after.

In this article I'd like to arm you with a start point, some information and the confidence to find your own correct pickup height.

The principle of Pickup Height Adjustment is, the closer to the strings the pickups are the louder and more dynamic the sound, further away is more compressed and quieter.

So what does that mean?

Imagine someone whispering in your ear. This is like a pickup close to the strings. It not only sounds loud and clear, you can hear every detail of the sound. You are very sensitive to and variation in volume, its very dynamic. Then imagine if the voice is the other side of a room. The voice is less dynamic, you aren'e as sensitive to slight changes in volume, it's more compressed. Keep that in mind when setting your pickups.