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buddah
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Hey all,
First post here.
I have an EPi Dot that I enjoy very much. The problem is that I don't play lead (at all). My style is more of a grab a handful of chord and beat the hell out of it type of thing. That is what passes for guitar playing in my house. The pickups that are in there are fairly high output and get muddy. I like a little more clarity in the chords. So I was going to swap them out for the jazz set which has been recommended on roughly a bazillion forums. Then I ran across a pragmatic post that said that I should try to get the most I can out of them before swapping them out. And the gist was to back off the neck pickup until the face was even with the plastic cover, adjust the bridge to match the output and then tweak the individual poles for balance and eargasm.
So I did this and I must say it made quite a difference. Something resembling a useful sound is coming out of the thing now. But it all seems very empirical and non-scientific and that is probably just fine for most people but I was wondering if there was a way to do this, or get it close, or even repeatable using an O'scope or other equipment. I have every piece of gear known to man available to me (my company designs very high end digital audio systems) so equipment isn't the problem. Was wondering if anyone had any experience with this? Even if you could somehow produce a single frequency, audio is such a non-linear sport that I am not sure adjusting for the same P-P output would be correct or pleasing. Now given that the output will be an envelope and not a single sine wave, I am thinking that the best approach would be to adjust for an average P-P signal including all the harmonics and the EQ properties of the pickups themselves and any pots and switches that might be in the chain. Picking strength would also be a huge variable.
The scope input is 1M+ which might adversely affect the signal so maybe it would have to go through a clean preamp first to act as a buffer.
Thoughts anyone? Ideas to try? Yes, I know you can just do this by ear but I am looking for another approach.
Any other tips and tricks that people use to balance pickups?
If anyone cares, the strumming style I have is usually a syncopated long train running sort of thing. I have recently fallen in love with the AC30 sound and that is the tonal sound I am shooting for. A ways to go but it is my goal. Here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbLW0kpISak of the sound. Edie has some class
It is very warm but I can hear all the little pinky notes in there.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Peace,
Rik
First post here.
I have an EPi Dot that I enjoy very much. The problem is that I don't play lead (at all). My style is more of a grab a handful of chord and beat the hell out of it type of thing. That is what passes for guitar playing in my house. The pickups that are in there are fairly high output and get muddy. I like a little more clarity in the chords. So I was going to swap them out for the jazz set which has been recommended on roughly a bazillion forums. Then I ran across a pragmatic post that said that I should try to get the most I can out of them before swapping them out. And the gist was to back off the neck pickup until the face was even with the plastic cover, adjust the bridge to match the output and then tweak the individual poles for balance and eargasm.
So I did this and I must say it made quite a difference. Something resembling a useful sound is coming out of the thing now. But it all seems very empirical and non-scientific and that is probably just fine for most people but I was wondering if there was a way to do this, or get it close, or even repeatable using an O'scope or other equipment. I have every piece of gear known to man available to me (my company designs very high end digital audio systems) so equipment isn't the problem. Was wondering if anyone had any experience with this? Even if you could somehow produce a single frequency, audio is such a non-linear sport that I am not sure adjusting for the same P-P output would be correct or pleasing. Now given that the output will be an envelope and not a single sine wave, I am thinking that the best approach would be to adjust for an average P-P signal including all the harmonics and the EQ properties of the pickups themselves and any pots and switches that might be in the chain. Picking strength would also be a huge variable.
The scope input is 1M+ which might adversely affect the signal so maybe it would have to go through a clean preamp first to act as a buffer.
Thoughts anyone? Ideas to try? Yes, I know you can just do this by ear but I am looking for another approach.
Any other tips and tricks that people use to balance pickups?
If anyone cares, the strumming style I have is usually a syncopated long train running sort of thing. I have recently fallen in love with the AC30 sound and that is the tonal sound I am shooting for. A ways to go but it is my goal. Here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbLW0kpISak of the sound. Edie has some class
It is very warm but I can hear all the little pinky notes in there.Would love to hear your thoughts.
Peace,
Rik
