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I wonder, has anyone tried making a guitar that outputs the signal from each string's pickup coils separately, and then an amplifier that distorts each signal s
by ubercow13 6y ago
I wonder, has anyone tried making a guitar that outputs the signal from each string's pickup coils separately, and then an amplifier that distorts each signal separately?
edit: Looks like this might be exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EUbO59OO_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EUbO59OO_Y
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- exDM69 6y agoYes, a pickup that has an output for each string is called a "hexaphonic pickup". Note that normal guitar pickups have one or two coils (humbucker) that span all six strings. A hexaphonic pickup has 6 or 12 coils for 6 outputs, one (or two) per string. The first time I recall hearing about this was with In Flames' album Reroute to Remain. That album has pretty fat distortion sounds.
- 01100011 6y agoOver the years my EE background led me to wonder about a number of different ways you could improve an electric guitar, only to find out later that they've all been done before. There are quite a few nerds who love music and they've been experimenting for decades.
- ftio 6y agoThe Line6 Variax does this. With their digital modelers, you can set different effects for each string. Pretty wild.
- hrnnnnnn 6y agoMartin from Wintergatan (of Marble Machine fame) has made a bass guitar with a separate pickup and output for every string. This lets him do things like mute one string when another starts playing in software, as he won't always have his hands on the bass to be able to mute the non-playing strings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvL83-iy-EQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvL83-iy-EQ
- kchr 6y agoWow, thanks for sharing.
- Supernaut 6y agoThe ARP Avatar could do this in 1977.