Jazzmaster Pickup Height

[RoséBear]

Hey guys, so I’m looking for some advice on pickup height. I have a Novak WRHB in the bridge and a V-mod (from the American professional jazzmaster) in the neck. From my understanding, these two should be able to balance our ok in volume, the vmod being 7.6k DC and the Novak being around 10.6k DC. What do you guys have your Jazzmaster pickups set at?

Even better, if you have a Novak WRHB, where do you usually set that?

[jvin248]

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I start with the pickups as low as they can go, raise the neck pickup until it sounds best, then raise the bridge until volume output parity when switching from neck to bridge.

This is how Joe Walsh sets pickup heights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG1MSZIysPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STeHgXlnh1c

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[601210]

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I start with the pickups as low as they can go, raise the neck pickup until it sounds best, then raise the bridge until volume output parity when switching from neck to bridge.

This is how Joe Walsh sets pickup heights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG1MSZIysPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STeHgXlnh1c

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Same, mostly, with the step that you choose which pickup you care more about -- so on my JM it's the neck, on my Tele it's the bridge -- and then adjust the other to balance.

[timtam]

I usually set the bridge pickup height first as it 'sees' less string movement. Then set the neck to match output.