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

A brief tutorial on how to swap the magnets in your humbucking pickup with out removing the pickups from the guitar.

[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.

[tehorix]

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.

[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.

[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.

[hadleymanmusic]

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

[Lman]

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

[tomashcroft]

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

[AuntAlnico]

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.