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Hello guys, I was away from here for a while, had some things to do. However, I sometimes looked here, in particular in the topic No "Import" Christmas. And I also wish everyone a Merry Christmas! My friend just wrote a new song regarding Christmas. I don't know how popular it will become and whether it will be on par with other songs about Christmas, but I hope you like it, it's made in the USA :

Not certainly in that way. With a metal cover, it really may seem that there are more high ones, but these are distortions, the so-called from a short closed loop. For a neck pickup this can be seemed nice and musical to the sound, but for other positions, especially for bridg, the metal cover degrades the sound making it uncomfortably harsh.

For an Invader with a massive output, if it has 3 magnets like the Invader SH-8, then excess output is not a big deal, it's easy to fix. To do this, you will need to remove 2 side magnets (carefully), thereby reducing the output, and the inductance will remain the same. True, I have never done this, I didn't have this Invader with 3 magnets, but I read about this on one of the guitar forums, and who did, they say the result for the sound is very good. In one advertisement about the Invader, I read the phrase : By installing Invader, you will completely change the DNA of your guitar. Together with these pickups, it will turn into an aggressive machine . Probably the machine turns out to be so aggressive that people throw out extra magnets with horror.

Hello gues, Well... There is indeed an occasional problem with the overly harsh, not very musical high frequencies that HamburgerShins has described. This actually happens in some guitars usually for bridge pickup. There is even a patented method for fixing it (https://patents.google.com/patent/US5908998A/en ). In general, to avoid or reduce the said harshness particularly evident at higher pitches, you just need to increase the inductance of the bridge pickup. This will provide, as stated in the patent, a truer, more pleasing tonal quality in sound of electric guitar. There are 2 ways to do this. First, as stated in the patent, you can add a ferromagnetic material within the body of the pickup, for example, a steel plate between the coils. By the way, I often use this in my pickups. Second, yes, you can just buy another pickup and choose one that has coils with more turns (i.e., more inductance) than that was before.

IanHenry, if your humbuckers did not match well in out-of-phase switching for good sound, then just forget about it and return everything back to its place. A good sound from out-of-phase requires a certain correspondence between the Bridge and Neck humbuckers' parameters. Peter Green just got lucky with that with his pickups. In turn, Brian May used out-of-phase for middle and neck pickups more often (including Bohemian Rhapsody), as I understood from one of his interviews. By the way, on my 3-humbucker guitar, the out-of-phase sound from Neck-Bridge positions is also so-so and I almost never use it in this guitar but use more often it in the Neck-Middle. It remains only to come up with my own Bohemian Rhapsody .

"Maybe it was my cheap "Meijer Thrifty Acres" computer speakers, but it sounded like a hollow body electric trying to sound acoustic to me. Whitefang" By the way, an interesting note about my electric guitar track (from Eric Clapton’s Woman Tone). Also, I read this topic. Although I'm still not aware of all the whims of guitar manufacturers and their guitar specs, but I moved this comment here to broaden the horizons about the 6-string guitar. As I said before, an electric guitar is the same 6-string guitar as an acoustic one. And so, it may well have the same frequency range from 80 Hz to 12 or 14 kHz. I.e., all current magnetic pickups and combo-amp-cabinets for electric guitar with a range of up to 5 or 6 kHz, in fact, these, speaking in computer language, are also "crutches" that do not reveal the full range of what the electric guitar is capable of. Of course, the electric guitar will not be completely similar to the acoustic, and it does not need to try to be similar, it has its own beautiful tones and shades, no worse than from the acoustic guitar, just others . To make it clear, I will give a link to one video: I once showed this video but did not disclose how this guitar sound was obtained. In reality, this sound did not work out at the studio even despite Jan's 12-string electric guitar. In turn, the young guitarist of our group and I did not know how to play this song, Jan was only passing through Russia for 2 days, and on this video, we only create the appearance that we are allegedly playing. But Jan sang well, and I decided to save this video. In the end, I learned this song on guitar at home and additionally recorded a new guitar track using my computer and one of my 2-pickup guitars with that know-how humbucker that I later patented. And to the studio multitrack I added this new guitar track... and voila, the video came to life. Of course, Paul McCartney plays this song on an acoustic guitar, but here it also sounds beautiful despite the absence of acoustic guitars. It's also delicious ice cream, I like it Sgt. Pepper says, it's just a different kind of ice cream. Moreover, I will say more, I think that the sound in clean on an electric guitar can be even more interesting than on an acoustic guitar. Probably in the near future I will make another attempt to offer my pickup to Gibson to start producing new generation guitars. I have already contacted Fender twice; but they seem to be more interested in selling their Acoustosonic Stratocaster.

Wow, ghost_of_fl, you gave here that link to my guitar track. So, you liked my guitar to some extent, thank you. That's right, as you said, I also didn't really like as regards the sound in the bass strings. And here are several reasons. But this recording was made for a purpose, here I deliberately chose the worst conditions to know what my pickup is capable of providing a guitar sound. Although I will clarify, despite the integrated card, which is not very quoted for recording, it turned out to be quite good in terms of parameters. In the recording, it allowed to make 24 bits and 192 kHz, quite the studio standard for today. It turned out that in modern motherboards for computer, the sound section began to be done much better in the last 2 or 3 years. And it was interesting to check it in practice, which I did by recording this track with the above 24 bits and 192 kHz. So, it is quite possible that integrated sound cards are no longer a weak link for recording. Next, the weak point in my guitar is that it has 3 humbuckers, i.e., a triple negative effect of their magnetic fields on the strings. And I immediately noticed some deterioration in sound when I put the 3rd (middle) humbucker on, even though my pickups have an improved magnetic system. I fixed this a little by moving the middle pickup as far away from the strings as possible and increasing the gain in the active part of this pickup. But it is quite possible that a 2-pickup guitar with my 2 humbuckers will sound even more beautiful. To some extent, this can be judged by the video that I gave in the topic "Have a Merry "Beatles Guitar" Christmas!!": https://forum.gibson.com/topic/172012-have-a-merry-beatles-guitar-christmas/ (Posted December 24, 2022). That guitar has similar humbuckers, but two ones. Jan seems is quite glad about its sound. My other 2-pickup guitar does not work yet, the neck is very bent, I do not know when I will fix it. Although an old recording of this guitar has been preserved, this guitar also sounds great for me, if interested, I can provide a link, but the recording is a little low quality. And thirdly, this guitar with 3 humbuckers has very old strings, probably already 3 years old. I also deliberately left them on the guitar to understand how my pickup would play them in recording. And besides, the guitar itself, as I said, is cheap, the body seems to be made of birch, what seems to be considered a simple log for kindling the stove ☺️.

for some reason I couldn't edit , I wanted to say that in Stratocaster guitars, this is long ago as the standard connection for a middle pickup (with reverse winding) mixed with the rest. Peter Green's tone is well known too. I.e., May could easily make this antiphase for the middle pickup in any good Strat, but he preferred to return to his Red Special guitar.

Here I hurried a little, sorry. Of course, between the guitar and the computer there can be any good preamp, equalizer, as well as any favorite guitar effect-device, flanger, chorus, etc., to get a character or unique own sound. But a guitar with the perfect pickup shouldn't require all those bulky combo amp cabinets, 21st century, folks . And all these extra-devices in home studios (diboxes, kempers, etc.) are, as the computer scientists say, "crutches". Now home computers are as powerful and with the same programs as in any pro studio. You might not believe it, but in that Pink Floyd cover track I linked (in "I Apologize" thread,), I used an integrated sound card, in the motherboard for about $150 (MSI, B460 Torpedo). And my Strat model guitar (Korea) is also only about $130, also, I deliberately did not use guitar box-effects, only a clean sound to understand what kind of own guitar sound with my pickup. Well, of course, the pickup should be as active, with a differential amplifier as in EMG humbuckers.

As for out-of-phase in pickups connection, well, yes, it certainly changes the sound a lot. And in Stratocaster guitars, this is long ago as the standard connection for a middle pickup mixed with the rest. But in the case of May's guitar, something else is interesting, as I said, he tried to play other guitars, but always returned to his own home made. And May himself said in one interview that his favorite tone in his guitar is from mixed pickups Middle and Bridge, which are in phase 🙂. Therefore, I think that the dry wood of the body and the 100-year-old wood in the neck in his guitar also play a certain role and perhaps not even the last for his own and unusual tone, otherwise he would simply move to any good Strat guitar with the same out-of-phases as in this his first guitar.

Hello guys, I with interest read this topic and some info. I was a little amused that the Marshall JTM45 Clapton was using would have the tube KT66s instead of the usual EL 34s or EL 84s, as stated in one of the articles here. Of course, all these details can give a different sound. Further, each guitar, even if it is a solid body, can be individual. For example, Brian May's guitar also has its own sound, but he achieved this, I think, mainly due to the body of the guitar. I read, to made it, he and his father used a 100-year-old fireplace board, i.e., well dried. Second, he tried to play other guitars, but he could not choose a guitar from other manufacturers and in the end he returned to his own one. It seems his 100-year-old wood body proved to be more effective than any known upgrades and adjustments to amps and preamps. By the way, this confirms that the good tone, first of all, depends on the quality of the source, and the guitar body is also a source or next to it, near pickups. But generally speaking, these methods, especially correction in amplifiers, replacement of tubes, etc., are all this outdated now, one might say. The perfect pickup, and therefore the perfect electric guitar, as ghost_of_fl asked me in a recent thread, I'll add to this, this guitar with this pickup should also be able to easily record straight into the computer (its sound card) in good (studio) quality, without any combo amp cabinets and microphones. Happy New Year everyone! Now I'm leaving and will be online somewhere after the 5th of January.

Well..., Everything was there, I don’t remember with the neck or the body, the main thing is that it was all there . I still only have a brass plate for attaching the neck to the body with bolts. I didn't dare to send this plate because it was branded with a number and lettering made in Japan, and it was clear from it that the guitar was vintage. And any of the guitar parts could be lost during shipping due to that plate. Instead of it, I sent another plate without any markings.

Merry Christmas! After reading this thread, I remembered Jan Owen, one of the US guitarists and my friend from Virginia, sent me this video where he demonstrates the guitar that I sent him 2 years ago. Perhaps someone will remember, I wrote about it then here on the forum, I had to send this guitar in parts, first I sent the body and waited until it reached America, and then again from Russia I sent the neck. Sgt. Pepper even then tried to joke like that how could it be that the body is in America, but the neck is still in Russia 🙂. I hope he enjoys a light Beatles medley on this guitar. In general, everything went well then, both parcels, both the body and the neck, reached Virginia successfully. My friend assembled this guitar for the first time with his own hands and was quite pleased and sent me this video. He's pretty good at playing guitar, I think. He has been asking me for a long time to send him one of my guitars with my active pickups, which I talked about in the next topic (https://forum.gibson.com/topic/171565-i-apologize/page/4/). So, this is Johnny Guitar (Japan), a vintage LP guitar upgraded by my humbuckers. You can hear its sound yourself, here my friend uses even a wireless way with a transcoder and a simple Fender combo. But of course, it will also sound good in almost any other equipment. It seems, George had a similar LP guitar with gold pots and bridge.

Hello guys, yes, the story is interesting about the $100 bass guitar. However, it can be not only with bass guitars. Good electric guitars (6 strings) with good sound can also sometimes be found for $100 or a little more. I had one funny incident with one cheap guitar (Chinese) that I bought for about $120. One guy persuaded me to buy it from him by offering in addition a guitar case, which I did not have enough, also saying that after the upgrade that I was doing at that time for guitars, I'll sell it easily. I really easily sold it by making its pickups as active ones, for about $ 180, it was impossible to ask more because the body of the guitar turned out to be made of cardboard (these Chinese quirks). But before the sale, another guy came to me, a good guitarist, he knew that I was selling a cheap guitar, but came with his new Ibanez guitar for 2000 dollars, Steve Vai model (with a hole in the body), probably to compare with mine. The funny thing is that, as an experiment, I made two single-coil pickups of this Chinese guitar in out-of-phase connection (similar to Peter Green pickups) and in the active mode with power from battery 9v. And I liked this new tone. As you know, Peter Green's tone is quite positive and interesting, not similar to the tone of a humbucker or a single-coil pickup. And when that guy began to play this Chinese guitar, I was a little alarmed even, he played for quite a long time and even turned pale. In the end, I broke down and asked if there was something wrong with this guitar? He only barely said that it was a very good tone, playing on that Peter Green's tone. And then the expression on his face became clear to me. Although he didn't say it out loud, it was obvious that he was very upset that he spent so much money on his guitar with a hole when he could buy my guitar for only about $ 200 with a great sound from Peter Green's tone. I also felt sorry for him and his lost money $2000, the amount is not small. Later I was a little upset that I was in a hurry to sell that guitar. I thought I could easily repeat that interesting tone on another guitar. And I did not write down the exact parameters of those pickups, which I now regret. On the other guitar, it was not possible to exactly repeat that tone. Although I made a similar one, in out-of-phase connection too, but I have a feeling it's a slightly different tone, as if something is missing. Maybe I should buy another cardboard guitar to get that unusual tone .

I'll add a little, I think, pickups with strong magnets (ceramic) and with a wide magnetic field (humbuckers) are better to try to put away from the strings, and especially if this is the neck position where the vibration amplitudes can be large. In the 3-pickup guitars the middle pickup can be tricky, too high (close to the strings) it can ruin the sound of a neck pickup adjusted. In general, for 3-pickup guitars, I would suggest doing the tuning as follows. It's best to start distanse tuning with your favorite pickup (which you play with most) while the other 2 pickups are as far away from the strings as possible. Then you can tune the next pickup, and after tuning make sure that this does not affect the sound of the previous one. Here, as I said, the middle pickup can be insidious.

I didn't quite understand the expression "guitar whisperer", if in the sense of "guitar gossip", then no. I wanted to say some useful info in the distance thread mentioned, and some of the answers could be expanded and made more specific there. For example, pickups with strong magnets (ceramic) and with a wide magnetic field (humbuckers) are better to try to put away from the strings, and especially if this is the neck position where the vibration amplitudes can be large. It is no coincidence that some people there said that they like humbuckers very low. But that's not all , in the 3-pickup guitars the middle pickup can be tricky and insidious, too high (close to the strings) it can ruin the sound of a neck pickup adjusted. I will repeat this here too, since it directly relates to the negative magnetic influence that was discussed in this thread.

I have ordinary tastes and more often I like dynamic films, action films, thrillers, also fantasy, in particular from Lucasfilm. And I usually watch with fruits, apples 🙂. Yesterday I watched Andor and also S.W.A.T. As for the pickups, maybe tomorrow I'll go to a recent topic about Pick-up distance from strings (by Sheepdog1969). There I had an interesting experience, unexpected for me, I wanted to go into that topic even earlier and tell you, maybe you will also be interested.

This is not entirely true, we usually eat only one ice cream with a certain flavor at a time, in rare cases two different ice creams, while Steve Howe (Yes) had to change 15 electric guitars at one concert, probably their songs required different flavors of guitars. Thank God that these were not 15 ice creams , a person cannot stand from such an amount. With the right pickup, the above perfect pickup with 10...12 kHz in range, the number of guitars may be needed much less, maybe 3 or 4, and for some guitar players two will be enough. Let's say one guitar has a standard neck typical of an electric guitar and with a favorite shape, and a second one, a similar electric one is with a wider neck like an acoustic guitar. For songwriters on tour, this might be ideal. And for most cases in recording, this may also be sufficient. I may have been somewhat careless in expressing similar thoughts when I offered my pickup to guitar giants.

Whitefang, I already apologized above. 🙂 Guys, with your permission, I would like to watch a movie.

Sgt. Pepper, I wanted to take a break from English and watch a movie, but you are very quick and asked a question on the merits. In general, I think I can assure you that it is possible. I.e., it is possible to create this new pickup with improved properties and with the same simple elements that are already in the usual magnetic pickup. It's just that this pickup already exists, I think. I mentioned that my humbucker has a non-standard magnet system patented in 2018. It can be read here http://www.google.com/patents/US9997150 Here you will find all the information that interests you. In short, coils can be any, with any and better with a large number of turns. The main thing is that these coils should be approximately the same as required by the humbucker. Magnets can also be any and strong, but also the same. Here the secret is in the design of the magnetic system consisting of 2 magnets. The secret is of course simple, but effective, plus built-in preamp as described in the patent. I am of course trying to implement this and have already attacked Fender and earlier Gibson with the old GEO. The pandemic and the Gibson bankruptcy in 2018 had a slightly negative effect on my attempts. But I will certainly continue my attempts to introduce this humbucker to start producing new electric guitars.

Well..., the perfect pickup, in answer to your first question, in fact, I already told you what I think this ideal pickup should be. I.e., this is just a pickup (magnetic) with a wider operating frequency range, undistorted up to 12 or at least up to 10 kHz. So that any electric guitar with this pickup can also replace an acoustic one. These 10...12 kHz, this is just an addition to its range that in 6 or 5 kHz is too limited. So, besides usual guitar combo-amp-cabinets with the same range 5...6 kHz, this electric guitar will be able to good sound in any other cabinets and amps, let even in Hi-Fi home systems. By the way, that will be convenient for home studios. Here I will only add that with such advanced properties, this pickup, with the range up to 10 kHz, can easily be made active, like EMG humbuckers, but it will sound much more natural, including recording in the same home studios, without requiring standard (and uncomfortable) combo-amp cabinets and microphones. How different will it be from my humbucker with which I made the above recording, well..., I can't say for sure, but that recording was made with only my computer and my preamp (3-way) and with a little reverb effect, without any combo-amp-cabinets. And for now, of course, that suits me just fine.

Whitefang, sorry, I was wrong. Indeed, Yamaha came out before Acoustasonic Strat. But anyway, these are 2 different directions, I think. Fender has had experience with similar guitars before Acoustasonic guitars, these are Stratacoustic & Telecoustic ones. It seems, that experience was unsuccessful. Now with Acoustasonic guitars Fender have probably taken into account that past experience and made them better. But still, as I said, they are too complicated and expensive.

fortyearspickn and Tman, thank you! Tman, I'm glad to see you. Yes, I'm fine. The only thing is, this stupid (bad) war, it is not known how it will all end.

I don't think so, quite the contrary, that Yamaha's answer to Fender because the Acoustasonic Stratocaster (and Telecaster) were made before, in 2018 it seems. But both developments are interesting of course. The only thing is that they are too complicated, in my opinion, and the Acoustasonic is also expensive.

No, not piezo. I have a different search direction. As a matter of fact, I already found something in my search. By the way, I also want my electric guitars to sound like electric guitars, as well as you. Perhaps I didn't say it well above. In general, I have a standard electric guitar with magnetic pickups, humbuckers (Stratocaster model in form). But my humbuckers have a non-standard magnet system (a US patent of 2018) giving a narrower magnetic field, narrower than that in a single coil pickup, as I think. I.e., my electric guitar, thanks to these pickups, simply has a slightly larger frequency range (undistorted) than that in conventional electric guitars, allowing it to sound in clean similar to an acoustic guitar as well. Plus, my humbuckers are active pickups, with a built-in preamp from OAs located in the tone-section of the guitar. This makes it much easier to record in my home studio computer-based.