How do I get rid of that dissonant overtone in my Strat pickups when playing notes on the lower strings at the higher frets?
Lowering the neck and middle pickup on the bass side of the strings helps reduce the Strat-ites . I remember needing a pickup for the center position of an old Strat and I ended up putting an old Duo-Sonic pickup that was reverse wound and reverse polarity (RW/RP) from the existing bridge and neck pickups. I found that when I put the lever switch in the two and four position of a normal 3 or 5 way lever switch the two positions became quieter and I noticed that the dissonant overtones on the lower strings was reduced. I used a Boy Scout compass and noticed that each pole piece on the pickup magnetized the string with the same polarity and would repel as I moved the compass in between the neck and middle pickup and the middle and bridge pickup. Than I remembered in science class that like magnetic fields repel and opposite magnet fields attract. The strings had several areas where the string was trying to repel the magnetic field within it. This would cause the string to have an inaudib
