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Post by washboardchris on Nov 17, 2009 16:48:12 GMT
Just done a pickup comparison (sadly on two quite different guitars) no 1 a lace slim line hum-bucker on a Dave King style N.It had a good slightly electric sound with a high output,and was nice and warm but didnt seem to have much cone in it.No2 was a National hotplate fitted to a Delphi de luxe & was a nice surprise as it sounded just like the guitar but louder(not such high output though) very impressed. both guitars were going through the same amp(AER acoustic) on the same settings. hope this is of interest. Chris
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Post by thebluesbear( al) on Nov 17, 2009 22:00:41 GMT
hi chris
yes this is of interest
al
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Post by tark on Nov 20, 2009 2:09:34 GMT
All magnetic coil pick ups sense the string vibration directly and not only that, sense only a short length of the string. Electric guitars often have more than one pickup precisely because the pickups only sense this short length of the vibrating string and putting a pickup at different positions along the length of the string results in the output of the pickup containing a different balance of harmonics. If the pickups are mounted exactly at a harmonic node point for the open string they will not reproduce that harmonic. This is very evident for the neck pickup on a Strat. Try sounding the 5th fret harmonic using the neck pickup and you hear very little - flip to the bridge pickup and that same harmonic is there loud and clear.
Apart from using a single coil Tele style pickup, because the Hotplate pickup is mounted in the cover plate the pickup is in a different position to most surface mount after market resonator pickups. Of course single coils and humbuckers also sense the string vibrations in different ways.
The only way to even approximate the acoustic sound of an acoustic guitar using pickups is to use a combination of pickups fitted at different places on the guitar.
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