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How important is wax (or epoxy/lacquer/etc) potting in voicing pickups?
I always have a few of my own guitars that I'm tinkering around with. I have a dark sounding guitar that I've been experimenting with brightening up, and over the weekend I decided I'd remove the pickup covers. Well, removing the covers made very minimal if any perceptible change in tone for me, but I noticed that the pickups were completely caked in thick wax. So I decided to melt away the excess wax so the pickups wouldn't look so ridiculous aesthetically without the covers. It was a messy process but I was able to remove the wax chunks and get the wax thinned out overall.
When I got the pickups back in the guitar and plugged it in I was quite surprised at the difference in sound after removing the wax. The pickups were much brighter and sounded better overall to me. For folks that know more than me, is potting a significant aspect of voicing pickups?
