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i've always wanted to try a pickup-per-string experiment, i wonder if those atlansia guitars/basses can be rigged with a cheap pickup-per-string attempt, with those cool little individual pickups they have :) Charlie On 7/20/06, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>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 > > > >