what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

[leevc5]

An example would be an SG with pickups mounted conventionally in the body and then installed another set of Humbucers over the neck and bridge pickups. Another option would be to offset them to some degree. It would of course interfere with your ability to play but for me using finger picking technique that would not be a major problem. The yield of such a configuration would be four pickup options and the associated mixing options. Also the overlapping magnetic fields might result in some interesting new tones.

Of course it would be butt ugly.

Has anybody tried this or is it just too ridiculous to even consider?

[frankfalbo]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

The overlapping magnetic fields would cancel. If they're attracting the magnet underneath, they would pull the flux through the string and you don't get the same disturbance. If they're opposing (aside from Alnico potentially degaussing) they would fight the flux lines and still cancel audio. They're 180° out of phase but you could flip that electrically.

[jeremy]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

how would you even play the thing?

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

This thread makes me feel like in elementary school again...lol.

[Rand-O-Monium]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

Someone here rigged up something that sits on top of the guitar & some kinda quick-change assembly.

Forgot why,think he was taking some kinda readings/measurements or something...

[leevc5]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

I did put another pup over the neck pup:

I am getting some very unusual sounds out of this arrangement. I'll have to play around with it some more tomorrow, it is not doing anything remotely like what I expected. The neck arrangement seems interesting it's when I move it to the bridge that things start to come unhinged.

[Demanic]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

Please elaborate on both "unusual" and particularly "unhinged".

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[beaubrummels]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

I think this is what happens when curiosity in the name of 'science' overtakes practicality and reason.

[Demanic]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

Well, not exactly. Scientific discovery relies upon individuals who are willing to take risks and ask questions that most don't bother with because they take for granted that all that is already is all that could possibly be.

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[Johnny the Kid]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

Forgive me for asking, but aren't the old Rickenbacker horseshoe pickups kind of along the same lines? Having a magnet that extends to over the pickups?

I don't know much about Rickenbackers, so what I just typed could look incredibly stupid to those of you who understand them.

[Demanic]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

No, your right.

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[beaubrummels]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

Well, not exactly. Scientific discovery relies upon individuals who are willing to take risks and ask questions that most don't bother with because they take for granted that all that is already is all that could possibly be.

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Yeah, except scientific discovery starts with an actual problem to solve. This is just a hammer in search of a nail that doesn't exist.

[Demanic]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

Once again I disagree. The root of science is human curiosity. It's not nearly so pragmatic as you make it out to be. Otherwise physics would have ended with Newton.

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[beaubrummels]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

Can't think of a physics discovery that didn't start with a problem statement to solve.
Science is a bit more than "Hey everybody, what happens if I do this?"

[Demanic]

Re: what would the result be if you added pickups over the strings?

OK, I challenge you. What practical problem was solved by discovering the details of gravity? People built structures for millennia without understanding the definitions of Newton's laws. Why did he bother researching them? Same could be said of Pythagoras.

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