What would happen if...

[Stealth]

I do vaguely recall seeing someone doing a similar thing with a jazz bass pickup. Sounded rather okay, though, with no phasing effects.

[big_teee]

I do vaguely recall seeing someone doing a similar thing with a jazz bass pickup. Sounded rather okay, though, with no phasing effects.

Respectfully, Are You sure it didn't have 2 Bobbins.
T

[Stealth]

I will post as soon as I find the thread. It was posted on TB, and I usually either download or bookmark weirdness like that.

Edit: Can't find it in bookmarks. Will try digging through downloaded pickup photos.

[tonedeciple]

There are times when I think it would cool to have a computer program that would allow me to simulate pickup designs. You would select different parameters for a particular concept and click "run simulation." The result would be an audio representation of the concept based on variety of amp configurations. Maybe someone will come up with an iPhone app that will do this! Of course that would take the fun out of prototyping an idea.

I'll build this pickup in the next day or two and see what happens. Of course, I'll post my results here.

[CRU JONES]

Chris,
My guess is:
All the odd harmonics form one side will cancel out the dissonant harmonics from the other side. The center of your pickup will create an intense magnetic resonance that will excite the pleasing even order harmonics and generate sub-octave cascading tone waterfalls that will inter-modulate with the ferrous strings overhead!

Good luck! Let me know if I am right
Ethan

[FunkyKikuchiyo]

Chris,
My guess is:
All the odd harmonics form one side will cancel out the dissonant harmonics from the other side. The center of your pickup will create an intense magnetic resonance that will excite the pleasing even order harmonics and generate sub-octave cascading tone waterfalls that will inter-modulate with the ferrous strings overhead!

Good luck! Let me know if I am right
Ethan

WHOA!

Somebody get me a tissue, I just made a mess...

[David Schwab]

Respectfully, Are You sure it didn't have 2 Bobbins.
T

Right, they have two bobbins:

[David Schwab]

I'll build this pickup in the next day or two and see what happens. Of course, I'll post my results here.

The the best thing to do.

I'm also guessing that you will get a thin mostly out-of-phase tone. If you think about it, it is like two coils wound the same way with opposite magnetic polarity. You can simulate that with a humbucker by wiring the two coils in phase.

[tonedeciple]

Chris,
My guess is:
All the odd harmonics form one side will cancel out the dissonant harmonics from the other side. The center of your pickup will create an intense magnetic resonance that will excite the pleasing even order harmonics and generate sub-octave cascading tone waterfalls that will inter-modulate with the ferrous strings overhead!

Good luck! Let me know if I am right
Ethan

Of course this will depend on whether the pickup is generating the required 1.21 gigawatts to the flux capacitor

[FunkyKikuchiyo]

Of course this will depend on whether the pickup is generating the required 1.21 gigawatts to the flux capacitor

With the readings I'm getting on my PKE meter, that seems like a bad idea.

[tonedeciple]

Okay, so I wound the prototype and placed it into my mule guitar. It worked. The signal was a tad weak and thin, but not as bad as I thought it would be. As far sounding out of phase, it doesn't sound that way to my ears. To me out of phase sounds like Peter Green. This pickup doesn't sound that way at all. It sounds more like a slightly quieter Strat bridge pickup. What is unusual are the low strings. E,A and D sound like they have a touch of delay, like two guitars playing the same note as almost the same time. I'll try and record a sample for you to hear and comment on.

[big_teee]

Okay, so I wound the prototype and placed it into my mule guitar. It worked. The signal was a tad weak and thin, but not as bad as I thought it would be. As far sounding out of phase, it doesn't sound that way to my ears. To me out of phase sounds like Peter Green. This pickup doesn't sound that way at all. It sounds more like a slightly quieter Strat bridge pickup. What is unusual are the low strings. E,A and D sound like they have a touch of delay, like two guitars playing the same note as almost the same time. I'll try and record a sample for you to hear and comment on.
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Cool!
For the Grins try taking one set of Pole Screws out and see if it changes the Sound.
Also What DCR did you end up with?
Terry

[Mike Sulzer]

Okay, so I wound the prototype and placed it into my mule guitar. It worked. The signal was a tad weak and thin, but not as bad as I thought it would be. As far sounding out of phase, it doesn't sound that way to my ears. To me out of phase sounds like Peter Green. This pickup doesn't sound that way at all. It sounds more like a slightly quieter Strat bridge pickup. What is unusual are the low strings. E,A and D sound like they have a touch of delay, like two guitars playing the same note as almost the same time. I'll try and record a sample for you to hear and comment on.

This should be like two humbucker coils connected with the wrong polarity, not two pickups a few inches apart. Thin and weak is the right description. Taking out a row of screws should fill in the bass, and thus increase the signal level.

[tonedeciple]

This should be like two humbucker coils connected with the wrong polarity, not two pickups a few inches apart. Thin and weak is the right description. Taking out a row of screws should fill in the bass, and thus increase the signal level.

That's exactly how it turned out, though not as bad as I thought it would. Kind of an interesting experiment.

[tonedeciple]

Here's a link to a sound sample:

http://www.highlineguitars.com/coil_sample.m4a