[sdiy] Fender Rhodes Pickup Wiring

[Michael Zacherl]

Hi, 
I’m trying to understand the following:

Connecting one pickup to a (low impedance) pre-amp sounds ok-ish, the noise is what it’s expected to be.
Connecting a network (in the manner of the Rhodes wiring, like three parallel, these then chained) is much noisier although the DC resistance just increased from 175Ω to 233Ω.
(can’t measure the impedance)
When connecting the same number of pickups individually to the mixing desk, the increase in noise is negligible.
I was expecting that it sums up, but it doesn’t.
Why’s that?
Thanks, Michael.

On 14.May 2016, at 3:51 , Michael E Caloroso <mec.forumreader at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as noisy Rhodes go, they are sensitive to impedances of inputs.
> Too many preamps and DI boxes do not have high enough impedance.  I
> got the best tone using a Countryman Type 10 DI box which has an input
> impedance of 10M, and the noise dropped way down.
> 
> Definitely use the later wiring for pickups.

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