I don't understand the high end Pickup Market

TheBiggestJerk said:
Acoustic instruments and acoustic resonance. Not electrical/magnetic.

What’s the equation to covert wood grain to Gauss again?
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What do pickups do again? Why do we call them "Pickups"? They convert energy transferred through a system (the instrument) into an electrical signal. The resonance of the instrument do contribute to the output signal by amplifying of nullifying certain frequencies depending on the wood.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
He moved to Japan and isn't currently producing pickups. My guess is he's trying to dry up the market and once they start going for $850 on the used market, he comes back with $1k sets spun from silver plated Geisha hair. I mean, that's what I would do. 🤷‍♀️
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His website is still up, I emailed him but have not heard anything back... He made some nice stuff.. Loved his amps and pickups..
 
TheBiggestJerk said:
How does wood transcend to an electrical signal?
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Is this a serious question? Take ash and alder for an example. If you have two guitars that have identical specs apart from the body wood, I can definitely hear the between an ash, alder or mahogany body. Pickups are a microphone for the guitar. You can shape the input gain and the EQ spectrum, but the tone of the guitar starts in the wood it is made from.
 
nzsteve said:
His website is still up, I emailed him but have not heard anything back... He made some nice stuff.. Loved his amps and pickups..
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He may have just paid in advance for website hosting. He still frequents this forum if you want to contact him his handle is Scottosan. I'm not going to tag him, because he would probably pull his hair out reading a lot of the comments in this thread. :ROFLMAO:
 
DanTravis62 said:
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And this is the crazy part. You can record yourself playing a guitar, right? It's what's called "clips" in common parlance. And then you can analyze the frequencies of the clip with these crazy tools called "frequency analyzers" that come free with every DAW known to man.

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And believe it or not, people who have spent a lot of time doing recording can quickly parse these numbers just like someone would quickly do basic addition or subtraction in their head. I know, I know, it's crazy. But these are, in fact, numbers, just like you asked for.

There are limitations, certainly, especially the way frequencies change over time.

But when you are listening to a sound, you are literally collating and analyzing these numbers in realtime in your head, though they can certainly be represented as a static data set if you're autistic enough to require that.



I don't get along with them either. I like a bunch of other duncans, but the mid range spike of the JB just feels a bit unnatural to me - at least with my playing.

I get why other people like it. It just isn't for me at all



I'm certainly more the specific type, but I try not to shit on everyone else's ice cream - particularly when the ice cream is obviously good, just not my flavor
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So break it down. What’s the correlation of tone wood and magnetic resonance and induction?
 
SFW said:
Is this a serious question? Take ash and alder for an example. If you have two guitars that have identical specs apart from the body wood, I can definitely hear the between an ash, alder or mahogany body. Pickups are a microphone for the guitar. You can shape the input gain and the EQ spectrum, but the tone of the guitar starts in the wood it is made from.
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Put it in an equation.
 
TheBiggestJerk said:
So break it down. What’s the correlate to tone wood and magnetic resonance???
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We're literally back to the beginning of the point I was making.

Which, by the way, I don't care enough about it to have a tonewood debate - I was just saying the answer to the question you posed about it is obvious.

What is the magnet "picking up"? The strings.
 
TheBiggestJerk said:
Also a strawman.
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Tell us how, professor. Because it's not at all, and I've concluded from the concepts and words that you've used as well as the time it takes you to respond that you don't know what you're talking about because you're looking it up and trying to sound intelligent. You never studied physics in school. You're full if it.
 
DanTravis62 said:
We're literally back to the beginning of the point I was making.

Which, by the way, I don't care enough about it to have a tonewood debate - I was just saying the answer to the question you posed about it is obvious.

What is the magnet "picking up"? The strings.
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You didn’t answer anything bro.
You didn’t correlate anything. If X happens Y happens… then you gave me a chart of individual string tuning frequencies. Come on man you’re smarter than this…

How does the wood grain density transcend into an electrical signal???

Go!
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
That's a better answer than "straw man," because if Professor Jerk Off knew what he was talking about he would see the relevance.
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And now you’re on to ad hominem… attack the speaker not the argument. What you did is throw up a distraction… look over here at the pretty building. Argue for it!
 
TheBiggestJerk said:
What you did is throw up a distraction… look over here at the pretty building. Argue for it!
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Wrong. You don't know what you're talking about, Biggest Joke.
It's pretty funny to watch you play make pretend, Professor.
What community college did you flunk out of?
 
TheBiggestJerk said:
You didn’t answer anything bro.
You didn’t correlate anything. If X happens Y happens… then you gave me a chart of individual string tuning frequencies. Come on man you’re smarter than this…

How does the wood grain density transcend into an electrical signal???

Go!
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The logic already got explained to you in previous posts. If you don't buy it? That's totally fine.

i'm actually not really a hardcore tonewood believer or disbeliever, your argument is just a "I can't see the forest for the trees so that means it doesn't exist" and it's physically making my IQ lower
 
DanTravis62 said:
The logic already got explained to you in previous posts. If you don't buy it? That's totally fine.

i'm actually not really a hardcore tonewood believer or disbeliever, your argument is just a "I can't see the forest for the trees so that means it doesn't exist" and it's physically making my IQ lower
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It's not just that, but he's using terms that aren't relevant.
 
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