Questions tagged [pick-ups]
An electromechanical device for amplifying the vibrations from guitar strings. Pickups can consist of ferromagnetic poles wrapped with copper coils for amplifying the vibrations of steel-based strings or piezoelectric crystals which amplify vibrations of the guitar bridge or body. These are both distinguished from microphones.
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Pickup that has same output despite how hard you hit the string
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This might be a dumb question but I found nothing by googling
I am new to guitars and have only a strat i bought recently.
I was at a friend's house and tried to play one of his guitars ...
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Question about pickup phase
I currently have a hss guitar setup with a coil split and a five way blade selector. in 2st position with the coil split, it’s like a regular hss Strat with the middle single coil and the slug coil of ...
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Strange hum when I touch a wire inside pickup cavity
I am trying to diagnose some shoddy wiring of some active pickups. All the wiring is done and appears to work. However I get:
some buzz from neck pickup when a note is played. Bridge pickup is fine
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