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Topic: Different Pickup Mounting |
Tony Dingus
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Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2008 9:33 am |
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Using 2 different mountings. We'll use the Sho Bud and Emmons monting for this, not the guitar brand. Using the same guitar and same pickup, how much difference would there be in the guitar's tone from the pup being mounted on a pup mounting plate (Emmons) and the pup being mounted to the body ( Sho Bud)?
Tony |
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 23 Feb 2008 10:50 am
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Tony, I don't believe anyone's going to really be able to say. Why not try it both ways, using the same pickup, and then let all of us know what the outcome was, from your point of view? Probably many would be interested in your findings.
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Feb 2008 12:39 pm
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Hi Tony. I did a little experiment with some shobud pickups and one BL 710 I had laying around. I wired up a half dozen pickups the other day straight to a guitar chord, to make sure they worked. I just held them with my left hand, upside down over the strings of a shobud guitar, and picked the strings with my right. They all sounded just like a shobud to me, just like the a shobud would sound if the pickup was mounted. The BL sound just the way I recall them sounding, too.
I guess the point I'm making is the pickups were not even mounted, so I doubt that it makes a bit of difference if they are mounted on the body or a mounting plate. The proximity of the pickup to the strings, and how the pickup is wound have more to do with it, I believe. MHO |
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