Re: Hex Pickups {was: Re: OT: Check out the Robot Guitar!}

[Paul Richards <paulrichard_rocks@yahoo.com>]

I think the Guitar Amp capo has merit (a la Spinal Tap).

Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us> wrote:
> Chris Sewell wrote:
> > I don't get the Digital one either. So it sends out 6 different 
> > signals, What are you supposed to do with that? It doesn't have midi 
> > like every other Hex pickup.
> No hex pickup that I ever heard of has MIDI. A hex pickup has, well, 
> six pickups, one per string. Additional hardware is always required to 
> convert these six signals into MIDI, no matter where you locate that 
> extra hardware. The Casio MIDI guitars just happen to include that 
> hardware in the guitar itself. But the hex pickup itself is not MIDI 
> without the help of extra electronics.
>
> Side note: IIRC, there was a Craig Anderton project that was a fuzz box 
> but did it by breaking the bandwidth into multiple frequency
>  bands, 
> distorting each one individually, and then recombining the outputs. 
> This method was supposed to be an improvement over distorting the 
> original, full bandwidth signal. With that in mind, and with a little 
> knowledge about intermodulation distortion, I would love to hear a 
> guitar played through its hex pickup where each string's output goes to 
> its own guitar amp. Six amps and, for the ultimate control freak, six 
> multieffect processors! I'm sure someone may have done this already but 
> I'd sure love to hear the results.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill

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