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

["Charlie Milkey" <pilotcp@gmail.com>]

i've always wanted to try a pickup-per-string experiment, i wonder if
those atlansia guitars/basses can be rigged with a cheap
pickup-per-string attempt, with those cool little individual pickups
they have :)


Charlie

On 7/20/06, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>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.<<
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> 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).
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> 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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