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> >>I wouldn't need it for my laptop as much as I would need it for > my tube 60 w Sovtek guitar top. It's humming a lot with single coil > guitars and those are what sounds cool with it.<< On 20 jul 2006, at 21.38, goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote: > so are you attributing the hum to the guitars for sure, then? is > the amp quiet(er) with HBs? if so, you might want to consider some > sort of dummy pickup arrangement a la alembic.... just a thought Yes the Russian top is not humming that heavily with HBs, you're right about that. But I kind of like the sound of vintage single coils, both with strats and teles. When playing non looping music I use a playing style to turn down the guitar volume knob between the notes I play, if necessary (can only do this on the strat). The problem is when I want to play with the cello bow and can't get at the volume knob on the guitar's body. So lately I have learned to use a volume pedal, which feels rather lame (but may sound good). I'm afraid I don't have the money for experimenting in buying new pickups either. If I should invest more in my guitar playing I would like to get some sort of six channel pickup system; one pickup for each string. Then I would like to run them into six separate laptop inputs and fetch them into six channels of Mobius (or whatever looper's around by then) to treat each channel with a monophonic distortion. To mask the latency of these polyphonic distortion I would like to blend it with a clean jazz sound (humbucker?) that can provide a proper attack since it should be played bypassing the sound card and laptop (like I'm doing it today). I have played with a similar setup back in the eighties and nineties, but then I was using a six note polyphonic analog syntheziser for the "latency" sound to back up the clean guitar sound (swelling in fat Oberheim bruurrrhphs behind the string notes). That's why I know I would like doing this with a laptop and digital stuff. But this is just a dream today, before I take that trip I want to get an EWI 4000s for looping (and I guess I will need a long time to mend those holes in my wallet ;-)) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom