A group by Cigar Box Nation member, Skeesix. Pickups, pickups, pickups! Skeesix CBG pickups, magnetic, piezo, magnets, wire, bobbins, winding, winders, installation, single coils, humbuckers, P-90's, bar pickups - you name it, if it has something to do with a pickup, let's discuss it!
Lets talk OHMs
There is an old myth about pickups and ohms. Though I understand the misunderstanding of higher ohms equals a hotter pickup. You take an electrical meter, measuring the ohm of a pickup, the numbers climb up high and viola, you think its a hot pickup. Disclaimer:I never went to any electrical engineer school nor picked up a book, I learned over the years of experience from having a father who was a junker. We would spend hours trying to power electrical toys that were broken to enhancing…
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I have a conundrum. I'm getting ready to build a 3-string CB Guitar with both piezo and mag humbucker pickups. But I'm looking to wire them each to one output jack through volume pots. That way I can blend a little piezo with a little magnetic pickup... or that's my goal anyway. Can somebody point me to a wiring diagram to make that happen? I've looked and so far all I've gotten is a 3-way switch configuration. I don't really want to go through a switch (unless I have to), I just want a simple blend. Is that even possible with CB Gitty parts? Thoughts?
J.D. Woods
Great to hear! Looking forward to seeing the video.
Its been a while since my first post in this group, maybe 2 to 3 years ago. But I haven't stop making pickups and I have developed my own workflow and heavily experimenting.
Right now, I'm just building P90s for the different amps I have, attempting to harmonize them cohesively with one another.
My latest design is the 4 pole minihumbucker sized P90, I call them the J70. Video coming out in a couple of days stay tuned. All out of wood...
Thank you I had no idea how to do it I just knew what I wanted to do
Bluegrass and Delta blues are acoustic. Just miking an acoustic guitar with a Shure SM-57 microphone should do it. Another option is to use a piezo pickup with a buffer to match the impedance between the piezo and the amplifier. Two piezos wired in series can approximate a battery powered buffer.
Is there a type of pickup that would give the old sound that the old bluegrass and delta blues have I’d like to reproduce that sound if it’s possible
Thanks, Skeesix.
Yes, there is more of an "airier" sound to a hollow body. The reason is the vibration of the hollow body also affects the vibration of the strings. That being said, the more you crank up the pickup with distortion, the more that gets obscured.
A general pick up question: As far as I understand, electro magnetic pick-ups only pick up the vibration of the strings.
They use electro magnetic pick-ups on hollow body guitars. So does the fact that it's hollow body make any difference to the sound in any way?
In my experience, it works, but the signal isn't very loud. You might be able to beef things up by using a stronger magnet, like a neodymium magnet.
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