RE: hexaphonic pickup

["Dean, Hal" <HDean@wcupa.edu>]

Matthias, I bow to your greater wisdom on this subject… all the more reason to be enthusiastic about a fanout box (to use RMC’s term).  Maybe this will push me to reconsider the DIY route.

 

Hal

 

From: Matthias Grob [mailto:matilists@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 3:06 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: hexaphonic pickup

 

 

Note that no hexaphonic pickup system has a really wonderful guitar signal output.  Typically the guitar signal is separate; some systems can blend the hexaphonic pickup output (summed) with your guitar pickups’ output. That said, Erdem, I imagine you are going to be mangling the sound form each split-out string, so having the best possible guitar signal may not be really important, however much you might wish for it.  you can still have your regular pickups providing that “best possible sound”.

 

Hal Dean

 

 

its hard to create a polyphonic magnetic pickup with good string separation and similar sound to the one we are used to (I am not sure whether thats really a good sound, its just what we are used too and so many great artists made great sounds with...)

 

for piezos its different: they actually work better when separately amplified

if you dont like its overly true response, it can be smoothened electronically

for my taste, there are polyphonic piezo pickups that sound marvelous :-)

 

Matthias

 

PS

we decided to call them polyphonic, since hexaphonic only fits for 6 strings