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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.
 

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2 hours ago, Whitefang said:

Is that Fender's answer to----  ?

 

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.
 

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2 hours ago, ghost_of_fl said:

So you are looking to have an electric guitar pickup that can sound like an acoustic.  I have seen that done many times before and some with good results.   I don't know the name of any of those products because I personally want my electric guitars to sound like electric guitars, but I know there are solutions out there.   Possibly involving piezo pickups? 

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.
 

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23 hours ago, ghost_of_fl said:

Interesting take - a few questions about that:

1.  What are the specific drawbacks you are hoping to overcome? 

 

The main drawback, as I said, is the negative magnetic effect on the string vibrations inhibiting these vibrations and thereby distorting the electric guitar sound. Of course, it is impossible to completely get rid of this magnetic influence, since a useful electrical signal (from the vibrating strings) is generated using the magnetic field of the pickups. But it is necessary to reduce this negative magnetic influence on a certain minimum (some criterion for electric sound). What should be this minimum of that negative influence?
  As you know, the sound of single-coil pickups (or stacked humbuckers in single-coil size) is brighter, more natural and more similar to the sound of an acoustic guitar than the sound of usual humbuckers. I.e., we can say that the magnetic (negative) influence of the single-coil pickup to some extent approaches the above necessary minimum. But this is still not enough, since the sound of the single-coilpickup is still inferior to the sound of the acoustic guitar in brightness, naturalness etc. So, the ideal case is when the sound of an electric guitar will be so natural, throughout the acoustic guitar's range (from 80Hz to 12...14 kHz), that the electric guitar can completely replace the acoustic one.

  And as is known, the magnetic field of a single-coil pickup (applied to the strings) is about 2 times narrower than that from a usual humbucker. It is also known that the undistorted range of single-coil pickups is up to about 6 kHz (noticeably worse than in an acoustic guitar with 12 kHz). So, for the said ideal case, a magnetic pickup must provide its magnetic field even narrower than that from the single-coil pickup, about 2 times narrower, if it is required to get up to 12 kHz in the undistorted electric guitar range. In this sense, the design of Van Halen/Show's pickup is interesting, since it can be seen that the magnetic field of this pickup can be easily narrowed if the length of the pole pieces in the coils is reduced.

My answer is somewhat long, but it is quite complete with specific values. How far my pickup reached the indicated parameters, the desired 12 kHz etc., I did not measure, but indirectly it can be judged from the above recording (the Pink Floyd cover), i.e. how this record sounds like an acoustic guitar. My electric guitar was with solid body in that recording. For comparison, a similar sound, acoustic-like, can be heard from an Acoustasonic Stratocaster here:

 

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5 hours ago, badbluesplayer said:

Hey man.  It's been awhile since you've been on here.  Welcome back.

Thank you, badbluesplayer.

I've looked in here sometimes. But everything changed this year, I read a topic where Tman spoke about his relatives who ended up in Ukraine near Odessa and he did not know anything about them and the situation with them. And it was not very convenient for me to come here at this time. I am not a supporter of this war that is now in Ukraine, of course. One Slavic people attacks another, the same Slavic. All this is some kind of medieval savagery. Hope all is well with Tman's relatives there.

ghost_of_fl, tomorrow I will answer your both questions, I think right away in the morning.

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Hello guys,
I apologize for interfering with your conversation, but I would like to return to the topic that badbluesplayer called here. After some upgrades on different guitars, I've got some experience as regards guitar tone, or in other words, a tone deficiency, how to fix it. Perhaps it will be interesting for badbluesplayer. It seems there are people here who have experience in electrics and also understand physics, it might be interesting for them too.

well..., yes, trying to fix tone after pickups is really a waste of time, I also came to the same conclusion. By the way, Van Halen, together with his fellow inventors (Tim Show and others), probably also closely dealt with this issue, and as a result they created a guitar pickup of an unusual design, quite original. As I think, it is not yet in production, this is their patent, fairly new, for 2018. If anyone is interested, in more detail the design of their pickup is here in this link: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10115383B2/en  
well..., the bottom line is that all conventional pickups (magnetic) already have a significant drawback associated with the negative influence of their magnetic field on string vibrations. And therefore, all further attempts to correct the tone (after the pickup), whether in the pre/ amplifier, or in the tone block of the guitar, or with the help of "treble bleed" resistor/cap elements etc., anyway, all of these methods are imperfect in one way or another. Or even they are meaningless since the reason lies in the said magnetic pickups.

I don’t know how good the Van Halen/Show's humbucker is in tone, but their search path, I think, is the right one. I.e., first of all, it is really necessary to change the design of the magnetic system in pickups and reduce the negative magnetic influence. If interested, I can give a link to an article about this on LinkedIn. Generally speaking, I also have my own design of a guitar pickup, in principle it is not a secret, I can give a link to its description. In particular, recently recorded my guitar with this pickup, it's a cover of Pink Floyd's thing, guitar version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16s_p9-jKjcI2_-C841ngW_1sDsFFTw5X/view?usp=sharing   I hope you like it.

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Now I looked at on the Internet for the tracking number where the second parcel (with the neck) is located, you won't believe it,  the guitar body is already in the USA in my friend's hands, he sent a photo with it, and the neck is still in Russia in Moscow  🤔  It is written on the tracking site that “Prepared for shipment from Russia”. This entry has not changed for almost a week has passed. The case is non-standard, usually vice-versa, guitars go from the USA to Russia.

But I sent the second parcel later, when I saw that the first one arrived safely. And the main part was the body, it is with active electronics and the box for it was double. Secondly, the fretboard was much longer than the body and did not fit into the first parcel. And for the neck I had to make a special elongated box, so it's safer, I think.

So, I'll be on the train tonight and I will not able already to be here. Then, when I arrive (I'm going to Crimea, please don't scold me, my mom is there), probably  I will be at home a couple of weeks, a kind of quarantine. And when I get back, probably in September, I'll play some more Pink Floyd stuff, some ideas too. Although some other things need to be rerecorded. Here is one of them, it seems, it can be made as a beautiful thing for guitar:

 I hope, maybe, you will record something down by September too. Good luck.

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I've always liked Fleetwood Mac. RIP, Peter Green. Very sorry of course. It seems there are many legends about Peter Green's pickups and his guitar since 70s.

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Hello fellows,

I recently sent a LP guitar to the USA to my friend in Virginia. He has already received the first parcel (with the guitar body) and is very satisfied.  Now a second parcel (with the fretboard and other guitar parts) is on its way.

And  to show him how his new guitar might sound I recorded a couple of tracks, cover versions  on the Beatles and Paul McCartney songs  (I Want You (She’s So Heavy) and Let Me Roll It). This is of course just   sketches in guitar version,   but it seems my friend liked it. These sketches can probably be turned into full guitar versions. And maybe some of you will play them better than me: https://soundcloud.com/valeriy-2/iwshessoheavy

https://soundcloud.com/valeriy-2/letmer

In turn, I am leaving tomorrow and for a while, probably a couple of weeks I will be without the Internet, however I hope you enjoy these guitar ideas 😋.

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Great videos, with Grace Potter and the Nokturnals. Videos from the ancient time, probably from 60s, are interesting too.  And funny video, saxophone and echo in the pipe.

This another funny video from our Russian funnymen, unfortunately one of them has already died. This is from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Neapolitan… cough 

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Or the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=NSld0Jth_CY&feature=emb_logo

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Hello fellows,

I wrote an article recently  ☺️. I try to analyze the current situation in popular music. And I think that it  depends on the progress in electric guitars. In particular, now, since 2000 the wave of musical hits has clearly declined, while the musical world has become almost completely computer-based. I.e. the progress in electric guitars is far behind, or old defects in the guitars do not allow them to be  on par with computer progress.   But maybe you have a different opinion (?). I hope it will be interesting. Here is the link to this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-time-come-new-hits-valerii-krasnov/

It is not finished. One more chapter should be, regarding active guitars and active pickups.  I'm working on it  and now I am looking for the info as regards active Fishman Fluence pickups. They seem to have a lot of hype  🤒. But there is a lot of conflicting information.  Someone please help me understand Fishman? Maybe there is some more objective info on the Internet,  now I see even more negative info about them.

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Thank you, bobouz. I read your info with interest.

I partly agree. Yet, I must say that the big band era (the late '30s and early '40s), it was not an era of electric guitars for real. Everywhere in big bands and in the musical world were revered only hollow and semi-hollow guitars. “Log” guitars (or solid body) were not in use in mass, i.e., in fact, they were unknown to the music world. The cardinal turn in favor of solid-body occurred only with the advent of Telecaster, i.e. after the 50th year. Only after that there was a cardinal turn in thinking, in the heads of both musicians and guitar manufacturers that solid body can be as a full fledged guitar with its own beautiful sound. That is, finally, it became clear that the electric guitar at all not necessarily has to be hollow, in it there is no need.

In turn, Les Paul tried to do this even earlier, as I said in 1945 or 46 as regards  the above cardinal turn in favor of solid body. Therefore I said in such a way that he overtook his time by 5 years almost.

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Hello, merciful-evans!

Like jaxson50 and others I do not subscribe to the "best of all time " principal.  My list includes both Steve Howe (Yes) and John Lennon and other good guitarists. But I saw the post from LarryUK about Les Paul and remembered, I read an article about him, it seems in Rolling Stones magazine, that story I said. When Les Paul visited Gibson in 1945 and he was with his guitar i.e. with LP model. I.e. this guitar could be appeared in the music world before Telecaster.

Thus, if we can’t choose one guitarist musically as “best of all time”, event history can be of help. And with this in mind,  Les Paul, probably,  may well be a candidate for this Number 1, I think.

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In historical significance, so to speak, Les Paul  deserves to be Number 1. He was the First who addressed the guitar company Gibson with the purpose to begin mass production of electric guitars. That was 1945 or 46 year, it seems. But there was a misunderstanding at that moment. He was not believed that this “stick” he brought  would sound   .

I.e. he overtook the time. Only at the end of the 50th year, Fender released the first mass series of that "stick" their Telecaster and there was a success in the music world. So, Fender became as a number first. But as the first, of course, could be Les Paul's model else in 1946. Here is Imelda May & Jeff Beck  on  LP guitar- How High The Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-lKsOz9H0

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I also tried to go here, unsuccessfully at first. But now, it looks very nice. Really  thanks to all who made this upgrade.

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Wow, my first guitar was unsuccessful, the hum from its humbuckers was too big, I bought it from a private master. But I decided to deal with it because a lot of money has been spent for this guitar. And finally, I made it as active guitar with active pickups, there were corrected some mistakes in those humbuckers and after this the guitar became just excellent in sound . I played for a long time and didnt intend to change it until the neck became too curved. Here is one of the things where I play on this guitar (instead of the piano part in an Elviss song)

 

[What the latest song you've been playing on your guitar?]

Cleanup Time (Lennon). The guitar plays very delicately:

 

[What the latest song you've been playing on your guitar?]

Mull of Kintyre (Paul McCartney). Today the first time I looked at the text of this song

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