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This is a follow-up for https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/would-you-find-a-modeling-pickup-useful.150392/ that I posted last year. The background is: I'm working on building a modelling pickup, one that can sound like a P90, or a PAF, or a Tele bridge etc. My hope is to build something that does to pickup modelling what Fractal did to amp modelling; not the first, but maybe the first that makes you not miss the real thing.
The progress has (predictably) been slower than I hoped for... A key part of this project is to build a sensor that is sufficiently accurate. Magnetic pickups are hard to work with because they are wildly nonlinear and piezo under saddle transducers are not exactly the best either. Since last year I have been trying a few different types of sensors and I now have a couple of good candidates.
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If there existed a modelling pickup that sounds good enough that you wouldn't miss your real magnetic pickups, how would you prefer to install it in your guitar? (See the poll above.)
I have one sensor type idea that would be installed in the bridge pickup slot. The main benefit of this approach is that it is quite easy to install.
The other approach would come as a set of saddles, not unlike Graphtech GHOST. Here you would get to keep your bridge pickup, and it alters the looks of your guitar less. However it would be less easy to install, and likely not be compatible with guitars with special bridges (e.g. Evertune).
This is a follow-up for https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/would-you-find-a-modeling-pickup-useful.150392/ that I posted last year. The background is: I'm working on building a modelling pickup, one that can sound like a P90, or a PAF, or a Tele bridge etc. My hope is to build something that does to pickup modelling what Fractal did to amp modelling; not the first, but maybe the first that makes you not miss the real thing.
The progress has (predictably) been slower than I hoped for... A key part of this project is to build a sensor that is sufficiently accurate. Magnetic pickups are hard to work with because they are wildly nonlinear and piezo under saddle transducers are not exactly the best either. Since last year I have been trying a few different types of sensors and I now have a couple of good candidates.
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If there existed a modelling pickup that sounds good enough that you wouldn't miss your real magnetic pickups, how would you prefer to install it in your guitar? (See the poll above.)
I have one sensor type idea that would be installed in the bridge pickup slot. The main benefit of this approach is that it is quite easy to install.
The other approach would come as a set of saddles, not unlike Graphtech GHOST. Here you would get to keep your bridge pickup, and it alters the looks of your guitar less. However it would be less easy to install, and likely not be compatible with guitars with special bridges (e.g. Evertune).