[sdiy] Guitar Synth boards ready...

[john mahoney]

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From: "nils pipenbrinck" <np at inverse-entertainment.de>
>
> I'm lucky 'cause I own a guitar with a piezo pickup. One of those
> systems where each string has it's own pickup. ...

Excellent point, Nils. RMC makes hex piezo pickups & bridge saddles that
many VG users praise.
http://www.rmcpickup.com/
This is another option for use with Harry's boards, and no permanent
modification of the guitar is required.


> I hadn't had the chance to listen to the signal of those magnetic
> hex-pickups, How does those perform? I'd expect to get a lot of dirt
> from adjecting strings with this approach.

I've never listened to the raw signals -- they are always processed by the
VG-88 in some way -- so I have no idea how the pickup sounds. Roland has
achieved excellent isolation, probably through a combination of focusing the
magnetic fields (to reduced adjacent string pickup), using active
cancellation of adjacent strnig signals (to get rid of the leakage that
still, uh, leaks in), and definitely by mounting the pickup as close as
possible to the bridge. This last factor would also give the raw pickup a
very, very trebly tone, so the hex pickup is really not intended to be
listened to as such.
--
john