I know your article covers humbuckers but ideally it should touch on single coil pickups as well. onelife in the Electric Guitar Forum explained "Stratitus" to me, a phenomenon in which pickups that are too close to the strings produce various artifacts including "boomy" bass and tuning irregularities. My Fernandes Strat exhibited both. As a lifelong acoustic player, I'm somewhat new to the electric and this was news to me.
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I know your article covers humbuckers but ideally it should touch on single coil pickups as well. onelife in the Electric Guitar Forum explained "Stratitus" to me, a phenomenon in which pickups that are too close to the strings produce various artifacts including "boomy" bass and tuning irregularities. My Fernandes Strat exhibited both. As a lifelong acoustic player, I'm somewhat new to the electric and this was news to me.