[sdiy] Guitar Synth boards ready...

[harrybissell]

Ahhh but...

Muffy features direct Hex pickup sound as well.  It is indeed 'trebley' (is that
a word?)
but is not unpleasant at all.  In fact it sounds very similar to piezo pickups.
I think it has
a very acoustic sound, and I have a remote switch to add it in / out of my mix.
Almost
always it is set to ON :^P

Cancelling out adjacent strings should be an easy exercise, in principle.

H^) harry

john mahoney wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nils pipenbrinck" <np at inverse-entertainment.de>
> >
> > I'm lucky 'cause I own a guitar with a piezo pickup. One of those
> > systems where each string has it's own pickup. ...
>
> Excellent point, Nils. RMC makes hex piezo pickups & bridge saddles that
> many VG users praise.
> http://www.rmcpickup.com/
> This is another option for use with Harry's boards, and no permanent
> modification of the guitar is required.
>
> > I hadn't had the chance to listen to the signal of those magnetic
> > hex-pickups, How does those perform? I'd expect to get a lot of dirt
> > from adjecting strings with this approach.
>
> I've never listened to the raw signals -- they are always processed by the
> VG-88 in some way -- so I have no idea how the pickup sounds. Roland has
> achieved excellent isolation, probably through a combination of focusing the
> magnetic fields (to reduced adjacent string pickup), using active
> cancellation of adjacent strnig signals (to get rid of the leakage that
> still, uh, leaks in), and definitely by mounting the pickup as close as
> possible to the bridge. This last factor would also give the raw pickup a
> very, very trebly tone, so the hex pickup is really not intended to be
> listened to as such.
> --
> john