*link* "Secrets of Electric Guitar Pickups"

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10/30/2005 2:13 AM
Dai Hirokawa	*link* "Secrets of Electric Guitar Pickups" saw this interesting link over at Aron's Stompbox Forum (thx for the link jc!) :     http://www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/lemme/     http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=37964.60

 

10/31/2005 7:38 AM
Borsanova	Good reading, thanks.

 

11/1/2005 4:26 PM

Spence

So what are your conclusions? That there can be nothing special about some pickups?   How many pickups has this guy made? None I suspect. Probably decided to write this thesis for a degree and just missed the point by a nautical mile. There's a lot of sour grapes in that article.   I make pickups for a living. They sell themselves. I do not need to advertise although I had to make a website just for the benefit of a guitar magazine article. Pickups don't sell themselves if there's nothing to distinguish them from any other pickup.

 

11/1/2005 9:22 PM
Mark Lavelle	Why so defensive?     He said "every pickup produces its own sound," didn't he?

 

11/5/2005 6:51 AM

Spence

I'll tell you why so defensive...   There's a lot of old twaddle spoken in guitar circles as well as some genuinely good stuff. Figure it out for your self really. Anyone can write an article. It doesn't mean it's right or that it's the holy grail that we're all looking for.   Pickup making is as much a craft as it is electronics and so pickup makers have a right to defend their products from people who just see it all as being unjustified mythology. Of course every pickup produces it's own sound. But pickup makers create pickups to have a particular sound that can be recreated time and again. Subtle difference there.

 

11/5/2005 7:20 AM

Dai Hirokawa

quote: "people who just see it all as being unjustified mythology"     I'm not sure how you got that out of the article?     for example:     quote: "Replacement pickups allow the guitarist to change sounds without buying another instrument (within the limitations of body and strings, of course). Different pickups also have different output voltages. High output models can make it easier to overdrive amplifiers to produce a dirty sound, while low output models tend to produce a more clean sound. The output voltage of most pickups varies between 100 mV and 1 V RMS."     [QUOTE]Altering Pickup Characteristics     Basically, there are three different ways to change a guitar's sound as it relates to pickups:     1. Install new pickups. This method is most common, but also the most expensive.[/QUOTE]     i.e. replacing pickups as a way to change the sound is recognized     in this table:     http://www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/lemme/table.htm     different pickups, same additional capacity amount, showing *different* resonant frequency.     Bill Lawrence seems to say the same thing about adding capacitance to change resonant frequency, yet he sells more than one model of pickup.

 

11/2/2005 6:19 AM
Dai Hirokawa	my conclusion is that it appeared to be an interesting link and thus decided to pass it along...

 

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