Hex Pickups Sale / work in progress

[Harry Bissell]

I made the hex fuzz with this pickup. Originally I used the 360 systems
(single coil) and before that, the Arp Avitar pickup.  This one is the
best because
1) its HUMBUCKING
2) its DIRT CHEAP (as pickups go...)

H^) harry

"Byron G. Jacquot" wrote:

> >What does a hex pickup *do*?  I want to be able to control a synth,
> >hopefully the simple modular I'm planning on building, from my
> >guitar. Using a Sustainiac pickup and some bizarre effects gets me
> >some very synthy sounds already.
>
> Most guitar pickups have a single coil (or pair of coils in some cases), and
> send out a single signal, which is the mish-mash picture of what all 6
> strings are doing at once.  A hex pickup has six independent coils, one for
> each string, and 6 outputs.  It allows you to work with each sting seperately.
>
> For example, you could use the low E and A strings to control a bass patch
> with 2 voices of a synth, the use the other 4 strings to play a melodic
> sound.  At the exreme, you could control 6 different sounds, one from each
> string...buy you're more together than I am if you can keep track of them!
>
> As for running through a modular, it really depends on how you want it to
> respond to your playing.  A classic approach for guitar synthesis is
> something like the Electro Harmonix micro synths.  They use a waveshaper
> (AKA fuzz box) on the incoming signal to make square waves and sub octaves,
> then run them through a VCF/VCA combination, which are modulated with a
> envelope follower of some sort.  The ol' EH ones are monophonic, and just
> hook up like a stomp box, and wouldn't be too hard to emulate with commom
> synth modules.
>
> If you want the hex-guitar, then you'l be looking for 6 seperate synths to
> run in parallel, obviously a lot more work, but it could also be a lot more
> playable.
>
> I suppose you could also split the difference, using 6 waveshapers, but a
> single follower/VCF/VCA setup, too...
>
> Didn't someone on the list make a hex-fuzz with one of these pickups?
>
> Byron Jacquot