[sdiy] Guitar Synth boards ready...

[Scott Bernardi]

The Variax pickups are hex piezo pickups in a bridge made by LR Baggs. 
I'm not sure if you can buy them standalone.

nils pipenbrinck wrote:

> John wrote:
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>> DIY content: Roland can't stop you from making you own humbucking hex
>> pickup, so winding your own is always a DIY option.
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> *100% agree*
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> I'm lucky 'cause I own a guitar with a piezo pickup. One of those 
> systems where each string has it's own pickup. They get summed right 
> before the internal preamp, so tapping each individual string is easy 
> and the crosstalk is neglible. The only kind of string crosstalk I get 
> is through body vibration. Drawback I see is, that I get a lot of 
> harmonics since the pickup position is the bridge itself. A position 
> where I get more of the fundamental frequency would be better I think.
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> 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.
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