Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: maverickf1jockey on January 06, 2007, 12:46:56 PM
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had a brainwave!
would it be possible to make a humbucker with two P90 coils (instead of the skinny ones) wound in opposite directions.
it should sound absolutely MASSIVE...
anybody tried this? if you have, please tell me the results.
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Nathan Sheppard Guitars. Tim made a P-90 humbucker for him - he had the guitar at the 2005 LGS. I think it might have been reviewed in Guitarist magazine too.
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any idea what it sounded like?
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I suspect that you mean a side by side coil arrangement rather than the stacked coil hum canceling P90 type thing
Would be very fat if it could be done
Not very practical though
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sounds like a great idea!
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I suspect that you mean a side by side coil arrangement rather than the stacked coil hum canceling P90 type thing
Would be very fat if it could be done
Not very practical though
But the versatility of adding a coil-split toggle would make up for the unwieldy size, especially if they were slightly different sizes (HP90+P90).
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Mathew Bellamy of Muse has a guitar with two p90's wound together. It doesn't sound "metal," but its actually kinda like a really really fat aggressive strat.
(http://www.musewiki.org/images/Kaoss_Manson.jpg)
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yeah but Tim'd probably make it really powerful if i asked nicely. (A 'Pig-90Bucker' springs to mind)
and those may well be a makeshift sutainer pup anyway...
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yeah but Tim'd probably make it really powerful if i asked nicely. (A 'Pig-90Bucker' springs to mind)
You'd probably have to get a permit for one of those :twisted:
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yeah but Tim'd probably make it really powerful if i asked nicely. (A 'Pig-90Bucker' springs to mind)
You'd probably have to get a permit for one of those :twisted:
And a grant from the MOD to afford it!
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Wow that would be some guitar.
I thought about making a guitar with as many coils that i could fit between the bridge and neck... i heard that the guitarist off Nine Inch Nails had one but haven't found any proof. I was thinking of using like a large slider switch to phase across the coils going from bridge to neck and vice versa.
or just a shite load of mini switches!
MMM
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I thought about making a guitar with as many coils that i could fit between the bridge and neck...
Don't forget this one! :
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Go Nigel GO!
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WOW yea thats the beast... I wonder how it sounds?
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watch 'The Return of Spinal Tap' and the lead guitarist (Nigel Tufnel) gets it out for 'The Majesty of Rock'
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Mathew Bellamy of Muse has a guitar with two p90's wound together. It doesn't sound "metal," but its actually kinda like a really really fat aggressive strat.
(http://www.musewiki.org/images/Kaoss_Manson.jpg)
Is that a TV below the trem?
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Haha, no, but it could $%&#ing control your TV. It's a MIDI touch pad that will control a Kaoss pad.
You can see him use it here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TeSGON6VvA
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probably the worlds most expensive theremin.
that is just not a real necessity for that song to be played live, it just looks good.
Listen to the opening section of 'Octavarium' to hear a similar instrument played infinitely better.
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Doesn't he just use that pad as a MIDI controller for a Digitech Whammy pedal?
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that the pad on his guitar is somehow wired so that when he drags his finger across the pad in a certain direction, it's like he's moving the treadle pedal on a Whammy pedal up and down (moving the pitch up and down).
I could be wrong on this, but this is what I recall :lol:
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that would be cooool! but it looks a bit wierd
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Doesn't he just use that pad as a MIDI controller for a Digitech Whammy pedal?
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that the pad on his guitar is somehow wired so that when he drags his finger across the pad in a certain direction, it's like he's moving the treadle pedal on a Whammy pedal up and down (moving the pitch up and down).
I could be wrong on this, but this is what I recall :lol:
so essentially the same as something he could have got for a lot less.
Bellamy; ever economical... :roll:
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Doesn't he just use that pad as a MIDI controller for a Digitech Whammy pedal?
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that the pad on his guitar is somehow wired so that when he drags his finger across the pad in a certain direction, it's like he's moving the treadle pedal on a Whammy pedal up and down (moving the pitch up and down).
I could be wrong on this, but this is what I recall :lol:
so essentially the same as something he could have got for a lot less.
Bellamy; ever economical... :roll:
True....................
But it LOOKS cooler to be seen doing it on your guitar with a pick sooner than with your foot like everyone else :roll:
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probably the worlds most expensive theremin.
that is just not a real necessity for that song to be played live, it just looks good.
Listen to the opening section of 'Octavarium' to hear a similar instrument played infinitely better.
If you mean Octavarium by Dream Theater, I think that instrument is a pedal steel played with a wah and distortion> It does sound great though!
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probably the worlds most expensive theremin.
that is just not a real necessity for that song to be played live, it just looks good.
Listen to the opening section of 'Octavarium' to hear a similar instrument played infinitely better.
If you mean Octavarium by Dream Theater, I think that instrument is a pedal steel played with a wah and distortion> It does sound great though!
on the Score DVD Jordan plays it on a 'Continuum fingerboard', which appears to be a form of digital synth, but a lap steel guitar is also used at some point.
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:!: BUMP
I want more about the pup I thought up, has anyone on the forum tried anything similar and how did it sound?
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For the record 1: That pickup was sound killer and huge!
For the record 2: Matt Bellamy, as cool as he is, has a completely ass guitar tone.
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:bellamy::shock:
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Haha, that'll learn 'im.
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needless to say Muse aren't my favourite band... :lol:
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Hey Maverick,
you mean something like this:
http://www.vintagevibeguitars.com/pickup_hum.html#
scroll down to the HSP custom humbucking pickups
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yay!:P that looks far cheaper (no routing), but would it sound as good?