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Hi Bear,
I don't see any problem with doing that. If it works electrically - you can get a sound out of it, it'll work anywhere it's put. I'm not much further down the road than you are, and I am still keeping it simple - if it makes a sound, can be tuned up and doesn't look too bad, then I am happy.
Denis
I've found that the nearer the pickup is to the center of the string, the more raw volume it picks up. Also seems bassier. Harmonics? Overtones? Echoes? I find myself fiddling with both tone and volume pots more. But more input signal is overall a good thing, amirite?
I meant nearer the middle of the length of the strings, which is usually just below the final fret on the fingerboard. Obviously, that's the point where a plucked string oscillates the widest and sustains the longest.
some neck and bridge pups have different readings on a 2 pup guitar , this is more-so to accent the same thing you are trying to achieve, and with a more noticeable difference in the 2 .
yes you can use that pickup , and yes it will make it sound fuller and warmer .
If you're using two pickups, you can use a 2-position pot (top or bottom) of a 5-position pot (all top, 3/4 top, half-and-half, 3/4 bottom or all bottom), Or separate output jacks for each pickup. But I realize I've wandered off the original topic.
Back in the old days, a pickup manufacturer "DeArmond" made a pickup that attached to a rod that started at the neck and extend to a point by the bridge. It was called "Monkey on a Stick". You just moved it to where you wanted it for whatever tone you wanted on a particular song. Jazz and Blues players used them a lot on the big semi-hollow/hollow body guitars of the day or whatever they had.
You can put a pickup where ever you want, by the neck for darker tone, by the bridge for brighter tone or in the middle for a mid tone. If go the 2 pickup route, make sure the neck pup is reverse wind and polarity from the bridge pup. 3 pup guitars have the middle pup reversed. Weaker pups are usually used in the neck and middle positions and stronger ones in the bridge, but you can do what you like.
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