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>>i've always wanted to try a pickup-per-string experiment, i wonder if those atlansia guitars/basses can be rigged with a cheap pickup-per-string attempt, with those cool little individual pickups they have :)<<
never seen those, though it's occurred to me to use a roland gk pickup like this.... the little adaptor that they come with contains a number of op-amps to boost the signal from each of the six coils, besides the midi switchgear, suggesting that the individual coils have quite a low output. this boosted signal then finds it's way down the 14-way (? haven't looked in a while) cable to the GI-10 or w.h.y., where it gets tracked for pitch & velocity & turned into midi, about half-an-hour later.....
the reason for my interest is that I have a fender VI (the oriental reissue) from which I want to get a clean sound on the bottom two or three strings & a more guitary distorted sound from the top strings. I deconstructed a gk2 & went some way towards this, but the project was interrupted by the arrival of a peavey midibase (sic), which coincidentally also has individual pickups in it's bridge to determine the velocity data.
I need to revisit the VI soon.... :-)
in their normal positions, these pickups would be of limited use for amplified guitar string sounds- they're put near the ends of the strings so that they don't pick up vibrations from adjacent strings as these flap about after being plucked, & also so that they pick up the bare minimum of harmonic content, thus aiding pitch extraction. if a bit of crosstalk wasn't a problem, then a gk2 would work as a polyphonic pickup further "into" the string's length, but one would probably still have to hack the GI-10 (or whatever) to extract the six boosted signals.
I daresay a regular roland guitar synth module (GR-100 &c) could be hacked in the same way without ruining it.
there have been some other peavey basses, & at least one hamer bass, with "quad" outputs. tom petersen's original 12 string hamer bass, for instance, is pictured with a mini four-way mixer on board &, I think, a bunch of dimarzios installed sideways. I expect there must be some guitars out there with individual outputs too.
d.
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