A strange pickup design...

[the_SLOP_king]

http://tedcrocker.com/stonehenge.html


They're sorta modular...and you could potentially wire them so that each string has a different output to better balance the guitar. And you could wire them so that each string is picked up differently through the wiring, but that would be nightmarish to try and come up with such an innovative wiring diagram. What do you guys think? Have you ever heard these pickups or heard of them before? They seem pretty sweet...

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: A strange pickup design...

Cannot comment on the Stonehenge products as I have never knowingly heard them.

What I do remember is that EVH used to have a Ripley Stereo pickup in one of his personal Kramer guitars. (Six individual outputs, intended for panning effects. I would imagine that its outputs passed via something like a 9-pin DIN plug.)

Another place to search for relevant wiring diagrams might be Bartolini. They used to make a multi-output humbucker.

I suspect that the pickups in WAL Pro bass guitars used the same "modular" individual polepiece and coil concept. In this instance, the signals were combined within the instrument before reaching the conventional mono control circuitry.

Finally, of course, there are Roland, IVL, Yamaha and other hexaphonic pickups for triggering MIDI guitar systems. GK-3 + VG-99 = a huge Frippertronic grin!

Hope this helps.
Funkfingers

P. S. - I like the Nietzsche quotation. )

 

[El CHupacabra]

Re: A strange pickup design...

That's really quite an intriguing design. I think you should call up an electrician for doing a master wiring for each string.

ON the subject of odd pickups, I've heard of laser pickups that produce a note by projecting a laser onto the strings and create a signal based on the wavelength of the vibrating strings.