Re: Hexaphonic guitar (was: single coil & hum (was EH2880 on video)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

> >>I wouldn't need it for my laptop as much as I would need it for  
> my tube 60 w Sovtek guitar top. It's humming a lot with single coil  
> guitars and those are what sounds cool with it.<<

On 20 jul 2006, at 21.38, goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote:
> so are you attributing the hum to the guitars for sure, then? is  
> the amp quiet(er) with HBs? if so, you might want to consider some  
> sort of dummy pickup arrangement a la alembic.... just a thought
Yes the Russian top is not humming that heavily with HBs, you're  
right about that. But I kind of like the sound of vintage single  
coils, both with strats and teles. When playing non looping music I  
use a playing style to turn down the guitar volume knob between the  
notes I play, if necessary (can only do this on the strat). The  
problem is when I want to play with the cello bow and can't get at  
the volume knob on the guitar's body. So lately I have learned to use  
a volume pedal, which feels rather lame (but may sound good).

I'm afraid I don't have the money for experimenting in buying new  
pickups either. If I should invest more in my guitar playing I would  
like to get some sort of six channel pickup system; one pickup for  
each string. Then I would like to run them into six separate laptop  
inputs and fetch them into six channels of Mobius (or whatever  
looper's around by then) to treat each channel with a monophonic  
distortion. To mask the latency of these polyphonic distortion I  
would like to blend it with a clean jazz sound (humbucker?) that can  
provide a proper attack since it should be played bypassing the sound  
card and laptop (like I'm doing it today). I have played with a  
similar setup back in the eighties and nineties, but then I was using  
a six note polyphonic analog syntheziser for the "latency" sound to  
back up the clean guitar sound (swelling in fat Oberheim bruurrrhphs  
behind the string notes). That's why I know I would like doing this  
with a laptop and digital stuff. But this is just a dream today,  
before I take that trip I want to get an EWI 4000s for looping (and I  
guess I will need a long time to mend those holes in my wallet ;-))

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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