What Makes A Good Pickup? |
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What Makes A Good Pickup? |
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Mar 22 2010, 03:04 PM |
I keep such things very simple... a good pickup is the one that gives me my sound, in combination with my prefered amp and guitar
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Mar 22 2010, 03:52 PM |
i don't really know, i used to have a strat made exactly from my white strat, same wood, electronics, pickups etc, and the thing sounded SOO different , so i dont really know anymore.
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Mar 22 2010, 06:17 PM |
could be, but sometimes -i don't know why- with a crappy guitar you can get some good sounds with the right pickups, guitars combination (pickups, strings, effects, amps, mics) are like a roulette for me, anything can happen.
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Mar 25 2010, 07:44 PM |
Pickups can for sure be a tricky thing, it really depends on the guitar that you want to put them in, and the amp too of course. I once put a Jeff Beck in one of my Les Pauls, a friend of mine had it in a strat type guitar and I liked the tone, but with my Les Paul it sounded horrible, it lasted only a couple of days, until the replacement for it was shipped to be precise
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Mar 25 2010, 10:26 PM |
Lets keep it simple for now and consider only a single coil pickup, is there an optimum number of turns, guage of wire, resistance, flux density of magnet etc. Why should hand wound be considered any better than machine wound. Is it simply a matter of output voltage and so on. Can anyone shed light on this for me? My opinion on the pickups is that they catch string vibrations in a very low-level way, it's a very "rusty" technology The raw sound that comes out of a pickup is yet to be shaped via amp and speakers, so bare that in mind as well. Sure, changing the pickup can produce some drastic effects, but these effects have their limits. In parallel to pickups, sound is being shaped by type of wood, type of playing, position of the pickup, electronics, strings, amp, speaker.. Alterations within a pickup are more less determined by the material used for magnets and number of windings. The more of windings, louder the signal. Randomly (hand wound) scattered winds produce different sound from machine (uniform) ones. Different magnet materials will produce different magnetic field, thus "catching" the string vibration in a different manner. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Mar 27 2010, 03:27 PM |
I guess it must have to do with picking up as much from the actual vibration and as loyal as possible,
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