Members gardo Posted January 9, 2017 Members Share Posted January 9, 2017 Can someone explain the logic behind this ? Why would anyone put a pickup below the bridge? Not to mention it's for a 6 string guitar W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheForkWigger Posted January 9, 2017 Members Share Posted January 9, 2017 Picks up spooky overtones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted January 9, 2017 Members Share Posted January 9, 2017 Give it kind of a sitar-like resonance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted January 9, 2017 Members Share Posted January 9, 2017 The logic is "I don't give a crap about doing it right so I'll just grab whatever pickup is handy and since the pickguard is in the way I'll just stick the pickup here." You'd be surprised at what you can accomplish when you don't care about the results. It's why my wife can fix anything with duct tape. One of our former Acoustic Guitar Forum guys took a soundhole pickup intended for a six string guitar, stuck it in an acoustic bass, and declared that it sounded purty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted January 9, 2017 Author Members Share Posted January 9, 2017 I've heard that necessity is the mother of invention ,but I would hardly call this a success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted January 9, 2017 Members Share Posted January 9, 2017 Depends on your definition of ''success.'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.Grumpy Posted January 9, 2017 Members Share Posted January 9, 2017 Mandolin = hillbilly instrument. I'd wager that most people that don't play electric instruments have NO CLUE how a magnetic pickup works. ("Magnets, how do they work?") They think the pickup is some kind of microphone that picks up sound waves. That's what the gold foil screen is for, to LET THE SOUND IN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 I've seen noise-rockers who mounted a pickup behind the bridge to be able to amplify those sounds, but it is pretty senseless on a mandolin, and total fail to do it as a means of trying to amplify the instrument in any kind of conventional way. I'd have to guess that it was most likely done by someone who was fairly clueless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted January 10, 2017 Members Share Posted January 10, 2017 uhhh, maybe they needed to dampen the strings to cut back excessive overtones, and a 6 string pickup was the only thing they had? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted January 10, 2017 Author Members Share Posted January 10, 2017 That must be it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted January 10, 2017 Members Share Posted January 10, 2017 Looks like the wire is long enough to put it in front of the bridge. Maybe that's where they keep it tucked away when its not in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Looks like the wire is long enough to put it in front of the bridge. Maybe that's where they keep it tucked away when its not in use. A reasonable theory... but I don't see any mounts for it on the other side of the bridge. How are they keeping it in place when they move it there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted January 10, 2017 Members Share Posted January 10, 2017 A reasonable theory... but I don't see any mounts for it on the other side of the bridge. How are they keeping it in place when they move it there? Gravity? Seriously, the pickguard would keep it from falling out. It would still rattle around. Another issue would be that there wouldn't be a pole piece near enough to the G string. The bridge needs to be shifted too; the G strings are running off the fretboard at the soundhole end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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