Neck Pickup in the Bridge Position?

darrenw5094

I have a pair of neck pickups, my own fault, Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates and a Seth Lover. They are new with gold covers. I was going to throw them into a 1981 Greco Les Paul Custom, but i am not sure how a neck pickup will sound in the bridge position.

Doc_Savage

strings vibrate less less the closer you get to the bridge and hence the bridge pickup will usually have a higher output to balance the levels between the neck and bridge positions.

it's pot luck how the tone will come out when new pickups go into an old guitar. but a 'weaker' sound is the most that i can definitively say.

i would ignore any one that says anything TOO specific. All we can do is speculate....

try 'em out and see... adjusting the pickup heights may be enough to cancel out the level differences!

rcaz

Both pickups would have the same polarities, problem? Just throwing an idea out, I dunno!

Doc_Savage

ahem?

just turn it around to get the polarity the way you want?:o

just throwing that out too... cause i'm really not sure!

rcaz

Doc_Savage wrote: »

ahem?

just turn it around to get the polarity the way you want?:o

just throwing that out too... cause i'm really not sure!

Well the magnets' polarities would be the same... North would be in the same direction on each pickup. From my understanding it's a different polarity to that of how the wires are connected up.

Like how a bridge and neck pickup will stick together with the top faces, but a bridge and a bridge will stick together with one top face and one bottom face.