Re: optical pickup

["Pedro Felix" <PedroFelix@worldnet.att.net>]

Check out Harmony Central's factoid/press release
http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/2000/LightWave-Optical-Pickup.html

LightWave's site is under construction though.
PedrOOrdeP


>>There's gotta be a way to make an optical reflective microphone.
>>Didn't someone already do this for a guitar pickup?
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>there was a guitar to midi converter called photon that used such an
>optical PU. The advantages are that its easy to separate strings and
>mount it without modifying the instruments. The position has to be
>pretty acurate, vertically, but string bending does not hurt.
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>They claimed that conversion was as quick a light - it was not :-(
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>And I listened once to the pickup: no treble at all.
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>          ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org
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