[sdiy] Moog guitar guts

[John Mahoney]

At 08:11 AM 6/24/2008, Florian Anwander wrote:

>Hi Amos
>
>>I'm also curious to see how this new tech would interact with a GK 
>>MIDI pickup.
>I think the GK-pickup is obsolete here. I assume Moog guitar already 
>has a hexa pickup.

Don't be too sure. Harry has mentioned that Roland holds a patent on 
humbucking hexaphonic pickups, which likely explains why we don't see 
other brands. A few companies make hex piezos, though.


>So you only need to split the signal from the Moog pickup to a 7pin 
>DIN-socket, which is used for GK pickup connections.

13-pin, but who's counting? ;-)  It's the weakest link in the chain, 
kind of a sore spot for GK users.


>The moog guitar provides a continuous original string signal. That 
>is the best circumstance that could happen a GK-pickup compatible system.
>
>Florian

Great potential, I agree!

John 


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