[sdiy] spring reverb & hum

[charlie lamm]

Gibson's Seth Lover was the inventor of humbucking pickups.   Gibson,
to a lesser degree Fender, and pretty much every other electric guitar
mfgr uses this idea in one way or the other.

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Dave Magnuson wrote:

> 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
>
> Resonant Frequency:
> resfreq at hoohahrecords.com
> http://www.hoohahrecords.com/resfreq/index.html
>