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Does having too many pickups affect guitar tone, or sustain? Let's suppose a guitar has eight pickups while another one has just one of the same type. Would there be a tone difference, if the mega-pickup one was only using one of its pickups in a similar position to the single pickup guitar? Or would the effect of the extra pickups be too small to notice?
Well people do say that the magnetic attraction that the pickups have on the strings can reduce sustain. Ergo, more pickups = less sustain. Whether that effect would be noticeable is debatable.
I have to say my first response to the pic was: “how much hum would a humbucker buck if a humbucker could buck hum?”.
Edit: a word
A humbucker would hum as much as a humbucker could hum if a humbucker could buck hum, I guess