Am I losing it/have I remembered wrong? Maybe I'm losing my mind but I think I remember someone told me that a magnetic pickup can be placed INSIDE a box? Can I have the box's wooden lid between the pick up and the strings? I'd be careful to make sure there's still around a 1/4" between the strings and the pickup inside the box but before I go and build it all, can someone please tell me whether I'm remembering rightly? If it can be done, are there any drawbacks to doing it this way? My reason for wanting to is to have space for art work and keep the hardware that's on show to an absolute minimum for once.
Help appreciated and hereto begged for. Hope ya'll sleep better tonight than I'm managing to as well. Not before you've helped me out though haha.
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Yes. It might not be as loud and remember that anything touching your sound board will change it acoustically so I would avoid direct contact. However, pups don't work acoustically so if it's primarily an amplified sound you want then anything that reduces feedback problems will be beneficial. Personally I would avoid attaching anything to the soundboard.
Thanks Fomhorach. Hopefully nothing touching the sound board but we'll see how it works out and how well I measure by the final results I guess :)
yup . your mind is safe . it can be done . a mag will read right through a lid . even as thick as 1/4 . possible drawbacks are a microphonic pup may pick up unwanted box noise like a piezo . this can be solved most of the time by not mounting the pup right against the wood lid . but some pickups sound great mounted against it . try a test first . either leave a tiny space , or mount it touching the lid .
space between the strings and pup is still inportant , usually you are ok . but some folks add "extention" screws etc through the lid to the pup to act as an extender . etc .
now take a bite of that confidence an get er dun ;-)
Thanks Pick. Always there when needed. I reckon I'll try and take a bite of the apple that made Sleeping Beauty sleep first. 5:30am and I'm in dire need of some shut eye. I doubt I'll get any (again) but it's worth another try at least. Thanks again :)