Swapping Magnets in your Humbucking Pickups for Tonal Effect. A fast and easy tutorial.

[@shredmaster1049]

I just saved a bunch of money thanks!

[@BataraKado]

i decided to take my magnets out and just leave them out, now my wife loves my guitar playing cause she cant hear me anymore.

[@samwilcockmusic]

Nice vid! I have an a4 on the way for my 59 neck pickup and an a2 for the JB in the bridge. Hoping I enjoy the results.

[@rolandosoto4545]

thanks, nice videos

[@tehorix789]

Amazing to see you remove that tape so quickly and cleanly. I recently swapped magnets in a set of Seymour Duncans (installed in 2006), and there was so much black goopy glue on that tape that it became a complete mess all over my fingers and the cloths I placed over the guitar body. I now see that Seymour Duncan' website has a tutorial on magnet swapping where they recommend just removing the baseplate and not unraveling the tape. Anyway, have you ever experienced the black goopy mess with some pickup tape? Also, which width of gaffer tape do you use? 3/8 inch? 1/2 inch? Thanks.

[@hadleymanmusic]

Ive a cheap quad rail its got three bars on the bottom. I was thinking about removing the center bar. Wonder what change it might make?

[@lcglazer]

when youve changed your pole piece heights won't that also affect tone? Just a thought for those who've never touched their pole pieces that theyre not just there to hold the pickup together.

[@ivanriverajr5012]

Just clarity cleans up the muddy sound. Not tone. The magnet changes the output of sound.

[@hadleymanmusic]

Takin one out if theres 2 what might be the outcome less magnetic?

[@autodidacticprofessor869]

Yes. You would have less magnetic pull on the strings. I put an alnico 4 in a Super Distortion (usually ceramic). I had to use hot glue to keep the magnet from moving around though. Some pickups intended for larger magnets or multiple ones, will need some kind of glue or a spacer/shim to keep it from moving around. But changing from ceramic to alnico sounded like a louder, more compressed PAF. No midrange "onk" or excessive spiky treble. It basically fixed the pickup. Highly recommend Alnico 4 first, before any other magnet. It tends to be more "even" in frequency response, so if there's an annoying aspect of your pickup, usually A4 fixes it.

[@rolandosoto4545]

how long do pu magnets last.

[@autodidacticprofessor869]

A fully charged magnet should last "forever" if you don't put your guitar near a powerful electromagnet or an MRI machine or something. Magnets can be "demagnetized" but only a significantly more powerful magnet can do that. However, vintage pickups typically had magnets that were not fully charged, due to production process reasons and they are unstable and can be more easily de-magnetized. People have placed old guitars next to a guitar cabinet and the pickup discharged and left the pickup dead. But that was extremely rare.

[@scottdunn2178]

Alnico has a "half life" of 80 years... meaning it will lose half of its magnetism in 80 years.

[@L5man]

Really smart covering up what you're doing with some stupid text

[@tomashcroft7024]

Be nice to know how to check which way the magnet goes in..

[@jeffallen3382]

Watch the video and he tells you.

[@gemquinn9313]

Gaffa tape!! Nooooo. Sticky mess

[@lakaurbosa6311]

Really poor image quality, talking about magnet but no magnet on camera, less drink beer and more do the things right

[@AuntAlnico4]

You can't swap out the magnets with out taking the pickup out of the guitar. But I'm sure you know that. Still you put that on the description.