Fun111
Well-known member
I'm sorry to disappear from this thread for so long, I don't often come through this forum.
I didn't think about the 26 gauge unwound string. 26 is a very very heavy gauge, and will be more magnetised by the magnetic in your neck pickup. When you consider that the neck pickup is also just sitting down from the 24th fret i.e. not at a node, over part of the string that will always vibrate not at a harmonic. What this is kind of doing is stopping the string at a point which is not a harmonic of any of the notes you're playing, in a similar fashion to playing two notes that are out of tune.
If you'd removed the pickups, it probably wouldn't have done this anymore. Playing in a lower tuning, you're taking tension off the string making it more susceptible to interference from the pickups.
I don't think even very heavy gauge wound strings have cores as thick as 26 gauge, and a 26 gauge wound string certainly won't.
Glad you resolved it all
I didn't think about the 26 gauge unwound string. 26 is a very very heavy gauge, and will be more magnetised by the magnetic in your neck pickup. When you consider that the neck pickup is also just sitting down from the 24th fret i.e. not at a node, over part of the string that will always vibrate not at a harmonic. What this is kind of doing is stopping the string at a point which is not a harmonic of any of the notes you're playing, in a similar fashion to playing two notes that are out of tune.
If you'd removed the pickups, it probably wouldn't have done this anymore. Playing in a lower tuning, you're taking tension off the string making it more susceptible to interference from the pickups.
I don't think even very heavy gauge wound strings have cores as thick as 26 gauge, and a 26 gauge wound string certainly won't.
Glad you resolved it all
