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New pickups or a new guitar? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by sailicalvin@lemmy.world to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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I've got a 1970s Hohner Les Paul and the humbuckers are starting to die. I was looking at Seymour Duncan's but for that cost does it make sense to just get a new guitar?

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[–] LambentMote 4 points 1 year ago

How close are the pickups to the strings? If they're very close try lowering them a bit. When they're too close the magnetic field from the pickups can influence the vibration of the strings and cause odd sounds.