[sdiy] Pickup Response Gizmo Rides Again

Jarno Verhoeven jarno.verhoeven at ziggo.nl
Wed Aug 20 15:18:45 CEST 2014


Looks great Don! Always found this a great tool, used it to at least get some
idea on pickup placement of my 5-string bass.
That frequency for Bass F-string (98Hz) should be a G right?

Regards,
Jarno.


> Op 20 augustus 2014 om 5:45 schreef Donald Tillman <don at till.com>:
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Some of you may be familiar with the articles I wrote a long time ago about
> the math behind the sound of guitar pickups, specifically the effects of the
> physical parameters (position, width) and mixing pickups on the effective
> frequency response.
> 
>  Response Effects of Guitar Pickup Position and Width
>  http://www.till.com/articles/PickupResponse
> 
>  Response Effects of Guitar Pickup Mixing
>  http://www.till.com/articles/PickupMixing
> 
> They're a little crufty, some day I'll update them...
> 
> But the third article in the series was a Java Applet that simulated all that
> stuff and made some pretty plots. Back at the turn of the millennium Java
> Applets were the best way to place interactive graphics on the web... but
> times have changed and now they've become the absolute worst.
> 
> So I had a hacking frenzy and finally updated the Pickup Response Demonstrator
> to HTML5/Canvas/JavaScript. It should run on all browsers with ease. And it
> even works on an iPad. And it has a dozen new features.
> 
>  Guitar Pickup Response Demonstration
>  http://www.till.com/articles/PickupResponseDemo
> 
> Please enjoy.
> 
>  -- Don
> 
> --
> Don Tillman
> Palo Alto, California
> don at till.com
> http://www.till.com
> 
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