[sdiy] Pickup Response Gizmo Rides Again

Donald Tillman don at till.com
Wed Aug 20 16:36:44 CEST 2014


On Aug 20, 2014, at 4:44 AM, rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk wrote:

> I had no idea that pickup frequency-response was so uneven due to the placement.  After seeing those "comb filter" plots I'm suprised pickups sound as good as they do!

Heh-heh... That's why they sound as good as they do.  

Acoustic instruments have all sorts of resonances; electric instruments would sound boring if they didn't have something similar.

But this specific kind of comb filter effect is only found on electric guitars.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
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