Members wagdog Posted December 28, 2012 Members Share Posted December 28, 2012 This was posted over at Wein's: There is no doubt this dude can flat out play. I think it's neat that he's playing, an, SX. And I hear more in this video that makes go, hmmmm, I would dig a set of those pickups. More videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/FerroKings/videos?view=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted December 29, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 This is even cooler, check out the tonal difference when he swaps out the fluid chamber thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted December 29, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 This is even cooler, check out the tonal difference when he swaps out the fluid chamber thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 The acoustic pickup may be among the best I've heard. And the harmonics that come out are pretty wild. In fact, I've already contacted the builder. Looks like ill have some P90s in a while to go in my new hollowbody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by wagdog This is even cooler, check out the tonal difference when he swaps out the fluid chamber thing... I thought the chamber swapping had fairly minimal impact. It did have some effect but not like a total character change. Still a cool option to have for the incessant tweaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted December 29, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by Elias Graves I thought the chamber swapping had fairly minimal impact. It did have some effect but not like a total character change. Still a cool option to have for the incessant tweaker. Definitely a cool option. I like the idea of using different chambers on each pickup for different " tween" strat tones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ballhawk Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 This technology has been in use for quite some time. Back in the day we called it a tone knob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted December 29, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by ballhawk This technology has been in use for quite some time. Back in the day we called it a tone knob. To some extent, great tonal control can be achieved w/tone and vol knobs.However, what I've found over the years is that you DO need great pickups to get that control. The strings and pickups are where the sound originates and if those frequencies aren't there, in proper balance, then you can't get those sounds with any amount of tweaking after the fact.This became very obvious to me as I built and modded amps. The coupling stages between amps usually consist of a single capacitor, or a single capacitor and then some sort of high-pass or low pass filter (i.e. tone shaping). When you strip out a certain frequency range from one stage to the next, it's gone (pretty much) from the signal chain and no amount of filtering and/or amplification of that freq range is going to get it back (in a pleasant fashion anyway).I guess my point is pickups are a huge part of the tonal puzzle. And the fact that Rick is playing an SX in the first vid (an $80 strat), sort of shows how much of that tonal puzzle pickups make up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ballhawk Posted December 29, 2012 Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Hey Wag I agree. I wuz just funnin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted December 29, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 29, 2012 Originally Posted by ballhawk Hey Wag I agree. I wuz just funnin' lol, it's cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wedgehed II Posted December 30, 2012 Members Share Posted December 30, 2012 Maybe I'm getting old & deaf, but I was underwhelmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted December 31, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 31, 2012 Originally Posted by wedgehed II Maybe I'm getting old & deaf, but I was underwhelmed. And that's cool.I really liked the vid where swapped the fluid chambers. It's neat to see a company trying something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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