marnold
March 3rd, 2007, 03:08 PM
The neck pickup that comes with the '51 is surprisingly good (to my ears anyway) for a cheap pickup. I like the tone better than the stock Jackson in my Charvel. The problem I have with it is that the pole pieces are staggered to "match" the radius of the fretboard. I put match in quotation marks because the pole pieces for the E strings seem much lower than they should be. There is a noticeable difference in volume between a note struck on the 12th fret on the high E and the 21st fret (21st is much louder). I'm going to try to adjust the E strings so that they can be a bit lower, but I don't want to introduce fret buzz. Has anyone else noticed this and is there anything else I could try short of replacing the pickup?