[sdiy] Guitar levels (slightly OT)

[Donald Tillman]

> On Apr 3, 2018, at 11:08 AM, sleepy_dog at gmx.de wrote:
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> So perhaps one would not be well advised to rely on guitar output levels definitely being as low as given by several people earlier in this thread.  Maybe those low levels are more typical, but not guaranteed, it seems.

Yah, there are some outlier pickups with crazy high output levels.  My Rickenbacker bass horseshoe bridge pickup can put out 8V p-p ("runs appliances, stuns small animals").  But that's not practical, it overdrives the crap out of anything it touches.

The question was actually about guitar amp input level.

> There are people, like Uli Jon Roth*, who use active electronics to eliminate the influence of the guitar cable, to always have a consistent sound no matter what cable you happen to have at hand.

Yep, I certainly do:

  http://www.till.com/articles/GuitarPreamp

  -- Don
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