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  • #1

    Optical pickup

    This popped up in my inbox. Considering how dreadfully reactive and conservative most of us guitarists tend to be, I'm guessing purists will turn up the noses at this. I think it's pretty cool though, esp the option of tweaking filters for each string separately.

    Optical guitar pickup can be programmed with a smartphone app
    https://newatlas.com/music/opik-optical-guitar-pickup/
    Rather than use magnets and coils to convert string motion into an analog voltage for amplified output, the ōPik uses infrared light to capture the vibrations of the strings above it. It first appeared online in 2017, and after much tweaking, testing and refinement, the optical pickup has now been…


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  • #2
    Re: Optical pickup

    Great. Now I have to buy a smartphone to run it. Expensive.

    Sounds like it would make a good pickup for a guitar synthesizer.
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    • #3
      Re: Optical pickup

      It sounds like a cool idea, I would probably try it and spend too much time tweaking and not enough time playing, ha!


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        That's pretty cool. I'd be interested in hearing one at least.
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        • #5
          Re: Optical pickup

          That's such a friggin' cool concept and I really like the look, also

          But every driven sample they have in their demos sounds like utter crap.

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          • #6
            Re: Optical pickup

            I like that after all this time, people re-think how things are made. Guitar is due for a revolution, from strap buttons to tuners.
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            • #7
              Re: Optical pickup

              Originally posted by Mincer View Post
              Guitar is due for a revolution . . . tuners.
              Careful . . . that's how the Gibson robot stuff started. :P
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              Originally posted by Douglas Adams
              This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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              • #8
                Re: Optical pickup

                Originally posted by GuitarStv View Post
                Careful . . . that's how the Gibson robot stuff started. :P
                We don't talk about the... wicked step children.

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                1984 Larrivee RS-4 w/ EMG SA/SA/89
                1989 Charvel 750 XL w/ DMZ Tone Zone & Air Norton
                1990's noname crap-o-caster plywood P/J Bass
                1991 Heartfield Elan III w/ DMZ mystery pups
                1995 Aria Pro II TA-65
                2001 Gibson Les Paul Gothic w/ PG-1 & SH-8

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                • #9
                  Re: Optical pickup

                  Originally posted by GuitarStv View Post
                  Careful . . . that's how the Gibson robot stuff started. :P
                  Well, yeah, while I don't consider those the travesty that most people do, I think there can be a more elegant solution.
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