Re: Hex Pickups {was: Re: OT: Check out the Robot Guitar!}

[Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com>]

Sorry, by midi I meant 13 pin output.
On Jan 13, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Bill Fox wrote:

> Chris Sewell wrote:
>> I don't get the Digital one either. So it sends out 6 different  
>> signals, What are you supposed to do with that? It doesn't have  
>> midi like every other Hex pickup.
> No hex pickup that I ever heard of has MIDI.  A hex pickup has,  
> well, six pickups, one per string.  Additional hardware is always  
> required to convert these six signals into MIDI, no matter where you  
> locate that extra hardware.  The Casio MIDI guitars just happen to  
> include that hardware in the guitar itself.  But the hex pickup  
> itself is not MIDI without the help of extra electronics.
>
> Side note: IIRC, there was a Craig Anderton project that was a fuzz  
> box but did it by breaking the bandwidth into multiple frequency  
> bands, distorting each one individually, and then recombining the  
> outputs.  This method was supposed to be an improvement over  
> distorting the original, full bandwidth signal.  With that in mind,  
> and with a little knowledge about intermodulation distortion, I  
> would love to hear a guitar played through its hex pickup where each  
> string's output goes to its own guitar amp.  Six amps and, for the  
> ultimate control freak, six multieffect processors!  I'm sure  
> someone may have done this already but I'd sure love to hear the  
> results.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>