Active pickguard

lector · Post by **lector** » Thursday Nov 24, 2011

Not sure if this has been posted before but thought it was cool and sounds pretty good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhSo-udHuqM

Here is the math behind it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7nvLrY ... re=related

Gallowglass · Post by **Gallowglass** » Thursday Nov 24, 2011

I often rest my pinky on the pick guard during tricky passages. I think it's a bad place to put touch sensitive controls.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Thursday Nov 24, 2011

All that to get a strat to sound like a strat?

The Kinetis K chips look pretty cool. Might have to get a developer kit. It beats the hell out of the chips i was using in the 1980s-2000s--go Captain Zilog. Everything you need is right there on chip.

And Jason, my "bad habit" is putting my pinky on the edge of the bridge pickup to anchor my hand for detailed picking. That caused a problem with shifting the pickup around, so I put pickup covers on all my guitars and it works great!

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Monday Nov 28, 2011

Gallowglass wrote:I often rest my pinky on the pick guard during tricky passages. I think it's a bad place to put touch sensitive controls.

+1 . i kinda rest my pinky on the middle single coil. i'd be hitting all kinds of things i wasnt supposed to.

and the lights are kinda distracting. id be staring at that green light and forget what i was doing.

id rather keep it simple. imo

- kayla.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Monday Nov 28, 2011

Yep, the kiss method is best.

I suppose that would work great with those pickups if you took the pure signal and ran it through a processor with foot controls. When I'm using a processor, I just keep the volume and tone at 10 because lower levels actually have a negative effect on the A/D conversion.

It might even work better with a S/PDIF connector.

*dusts off microprocessor programming software*

whitedevilone · Post by **whitedevilone** » Monday Nov 28, 2011

That thing sounds like shit.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Monday Nov 28, 2011

whitedevilone wrote:That thing sounds like shit.

lonewolf wrote:All that to get a strat to sound like a strat?

Gallowglass · Post by **Gallowglass** » Monday Nov 28, 2011

Jeff,...got a chuckle out of that myself.

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Monday Nov 28, 2011

Ya strats sound like shit

Good thing srv and hendrix played prs.

whitedevilone · Post by **whitedevilone** » Tuesday Nov 29, 2011

kayla wrote:Ya strats sound like shit Good thing srv and hendrix played prs.

You thought it sounded good??

kayla · Post by **kayla** » Tuesday Nov 29, 2011

whitedevilone wrote: You thought it sounded good??

i was commenting to jeff's post. and that is not a strat that guy is holding.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Tuesday Nov 29, 2011

kayla wrote:Ya strats sound like shit Good thing srv and hendrix played prs.

Of course, PRS was either not in production yet or still unknown when these guys were alive. Perhaps if they used PRS, they would still be alive today.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Tuesday Nov 29, 2011

lonewolf wrote: Perhaps if they used PRS, they would still be alive today.

LOL