Hiya
I'd be interested to hear some ideas on pickups from players of emandos. To date I've mainly been using P-bass pickups in my mandos, but we've been trying to come up with a better pickup that's voiced for a mando. So far our experiments in squeezing in enough windings in that little space still don't make for a particularly hot pickup. I've been using Tele neck sized pickups in my larger scale ukes. There's a lot more room for windings with the Tele neck pickup so I'm looking to make up some emando and tenor guitar pickups of a similar style. We're also looking at some humbucker style pickups but aesthetically the bigger humbucker kind of overwhelms a little emando body!
What I'd like to find out is what sound you're looking for from your emando? Are you a twanger or a cruncher? Do you prefer a warmer sound from a pickup positioned closer to the neck or a more piercing sound from a pickup that's closer to the bridge? Do you prefer a clean sound or would you like a humbucker with some thicker dirtier sounds, or a split humbucker so you can select either to suit the mood?
Any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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