[sdiy] non shield cable

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In a message dated 10/9/03 8:11:17 PM, harrybissell at prodigy.net writes:

<< Once I tried to shield an ARP Avitar pickup with mu-metal.  BIG mistake... 
the magnetic field was SO well reduced that the internal magnets did not 
sense the strings anymore... Live and learn :^) >>

That's why all the Roland hex pickups are humbuckers.  Teeny, tiny little 
humbuckers.  They held a patent on that for a while (from the late 1970's until 
whenever it expired), which made it tough for any other company to comepete in 
that arena.

Michael Bacich