[sdiy] spring reverb & hum

[Dave Magnuson]

At 03:08 AM 11/14/02 +0100, Magnus Danielson wrote:

>Another trick is to have an additional receiver coil and use it as a
pickup for
>"stray magnetic" in an attempt to make the compound magnetic assembly more
>distance sensitive. There are many variants to it. I've seen it used in HPs
>near-field probes for instance. Lovely stuff to work with.
>



Didn't some Fender Stratocasters have a "dummy coil" in the body?  I can't
recall if it was Strats for sure, but I know a major brand of guitars used
an extra coil to help cancel the hum received from the single-coil pickups....

might be worth investigating

Dave

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