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Topic: This looks really useful. |
mike nolan
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Forest Hills, NY USA
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Billy Carr
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Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 9:18 am psg |
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| I like this. I could probably read it over and over and catch on to exactly how to use it but a simple and plain "How to apply" it is all I see that's needed for folks like me with a simple mind. Ha! Looks like an excellent product. Very good. |
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 9:49 am
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Genius product. You'd have to do some futzing to have it work on a PSG, enlarge the pickup cavity, and depending on neck size, placement, whether it was a D-10 etc. you'd have to move or lengthen the legs with the suction cups. I think it would be fairly easy to custom build one of these for steel for someone with a bit of a tinkering bent. Kind of bugs me that I never thought of this on my own!
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mike nolan
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Forest Hills, NY USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 9:59 am
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| Kind of bugs me that I never thought of this on my own! |
That was my thought exactly! I saw the thing in Guitar Player and had that forehead smacking, this is so obvious moment. |
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Pete Burak
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Portland, OR USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 10:01 am
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That jig looks nice, but...
If you have a steel pickup that you want to try on your steel, hold it over the strings and make a support out of a piece of whatever you have laying around to hold it at the right height (I have used 2 of my kids blocks, or 2 pieces of foam rubber, and a piece of tape on each end).
You can then hook the pickup to a guitar cable using aligator clips.
You can try the pickup in several positions (close/far from the bridge, at an angle, etc...).
This way you could have your actual pickup, and your test pickup, both going to an A/B box, and have either pickup coming out of you amp at the flick of a switch for comparision.
Sure beats removing the strings and replacing the pickup just to try out a pickup.
What they need for regular guitar is modular-pickups that slide in/out in a second or two, like Sierra and MSA have. Every guitar player would have a dozen pickups. |
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 10:33 am
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| .....What they need for regular guitar is modular-pickups that slide in/out in a second or two, like Sierra and MSA have. Every guitar player would have a dozen pickups. |
I'd like to see this in the not too distant future. Not just standard guitars, but pedal steels as well. Ought to be a brand neutral universal cartridge mount to fit all pedal steels and pickups for instantaneous comparisons and swaps for different situations. Of course builders would have to re-work the neck cavities to accept them as well.
Pickup makers business would likely increase and we players could trade 'em like baseball cards. 
Back on topic though, that device looks like it works well and I'm surprised someone hasn't done it before now. |
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Steve Collins
From:
Alaska, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 11:54 am
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| I am curious as to weather one would get skewed results from trying this on a guitar that is already loaded with pickups. especially directly over an existing pickup. |
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Gary Cosden
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Florida, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 12:02 pm
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I can't see how the interaction between two different magnetic fields (the pickup above vs the one already mounted) would not affect the resulting tone of the pickup being tested. Then again I know just enough to be dangerous.
On a PSG it seems to me that you could use this to test out a pickup in another (closer to the neck position) and get a usable result for sure. Just not quite convinced you could use it to test different pickups directly above the one already installed. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 8 Jan 2013 4:14 pm
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Previous concerns by a couple of posters are right. Unless you mount a pickup in exactly the same place and manner as the pickup a;ready installed on the guitar, you won't get a true picture of what it's going to sound like. Methods of mounting, distance from the changer, and the proximity of any other pickup wll all affect the sound, somewhat.
With that said, it's been my experience that different pickups usually make very insignificant changes in the sound or tone of a pedal steel. I've proved to many a player that a one-number change of the amps mid control makes far more difference than any pickup swap you might do. Initially, a new pickup may sound a lot different, but careful juggling of the tone controls allows you to make one pickup sound pretty much like another. To me, the only change worth making (read: something you can easily notice) is to change a single-coil for a humbucker, or vice-versa.
In closing, having a guitar that lets you change pickups in a few seconds is a real eye opener!  However, I don't expect builders to adopt a common (standardized) plug-in pickup in the near future, because they seem to simply abhor any form of standardization. Getting a bunch of builders (each of whom thinks he is smarter/better than the other guy) to agree on anything is kinda like herding a bunch of cats.  [/u]
Last edited by Donny Hinson on 8 Jan 2013 4:25 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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