Tube powered pickup??

[Hsb]

Hmmmm Im not sure about this, sounded decent, cool cpncept, but guess Im a tradionalist when it comes to pickups


https://reverb.com/news/ruokangas-i...first-ever-tube-driven-electric-guitar-pickup

 

[Demanic]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

Sounds like a pita to me.

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[Chistopher]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

I heard about that, I think that thing has actually been around for a while, but just now has started to get a bit of publicity.

The way I see it is it has a few issues with the number of people who fall into the overlap of the target audience. Here's what you would need to be willing to do to buy one:

1-Route the guitar for such a large pickup. Or take it to a tech that has never seen this sort of thing before.
2-Pay a boat load of money for not only a pickup, but a design that has no proven track record.
3-Own a guitar that will suffer critical failure if dropped from a height of more than a few inches.
4-Play only in locations that can cater to the need of lugging a power cord around with your guitar.

In short, sounds like a pita to me too.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

Ha. crazy -Putting a passive transducer with a 50C temp onboard tube preamp inside a custom guitar -honestly think about it.....

if his special pickup is so sensitive and low of an output before the tube circuit that he needs the pre adjacent like a tube recording mic, wouldn't it make a whole lot of sense instead to put a super transparent solid state preamp into the guitar just enough to get it 20 ft from the guitar to then process it through the robust tube circuitry? or even passive circuitry would allow you a higher gain through the tube circuit? then your market would be EVERYONE -or even drop the level again at the tube circuit and reproc it back up to guitar line level with the tube circuit if you think the magic is not in the circuit, but instead the gain stepping through the circuit.

Seems like an implausible amount of trouble to achieve something, but I guess I'd need to hear A/Bs -but many settings (especially the first few) were not the warm tube sound I was expecting but rather a bit thin with razor sharp attack that sizzle to me.

I'd love to hear this in person, I love that he tried this but wow.... lots of issues with this ever being anything other than a one off.

What a neck on that guitar eh?

 

[Jacew]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

Ha. crazy -Putting a passive transducer with a 50C temp onboard tube preamp inside a custom guitar -honestly think about it.....

if his special pickup is so sensitive and low of an output before the tube circuit that he needs the pre adjacent like a tube recording mic, wouldn't it make a whole lot of sense instead to put a super transparent solid state preamp into the guitar just enough to get it 20 ft from the guitar to then process it through the robust tube circuitry? or even passive circuitry would allow you a higher gain through the tube circuit? then your market would be EVERYONE -or even drop the level again at the tube circuit and reproc it back up to guitar line level with the tube circuit if you think the magic is not in the circuit, but instead the gain stepping through the circuit.

Seems like an implausible amount of trouble to achieve something, but I guess I'd need to hear A/Bs -but many settings (especially the first few) were not the warm tube sound I was expecting but rather a bit thin with razor sharp attack that sizzle to me.

I'd love to hear this in person, I love that he tried this but wow.... lots of issues with this ever being anything other than a one off.

What a neck on that guitar eh?

Yo're completely missing the point. It's not about achieving some special tonal characteristics or anything like that. It's designed and built just because it turned out to be possible and works.

It's really not meant to be aftermarket replacement either so routing problems and such are a moot point.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

Seems like a pretty roundabout way of getting some fairly basic tones.

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

I think it's really cool that there are more options/solutions than ever for guitarists these days beyond guitar/pickup/cable/pedals/amps etc, but this seems like a solution too far to me.

 

[Chris Pile]

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It's fricking $1200..... I thought some Lindy Fralins I bought were too pricey... But this? Buy a $1200 pickup and stick it in a used Les Paul you bought for half that.... NO.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

Yo're completely missing the point. It's not about achieving some special tonal characteristics or anything like that. It's designed and built just because it turned out to be possible and works.

It's really not meant to be aftermarket replacement either so routing problems and such are a moot point.

huh, maybe I did, well if tone, functionality and practicality weren't the point, then I guess he nailed exploring the question of possibility.

 

[Jacew]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

huh, maybe I did, well if tone, functionality and practicality weren't the point, then I guess he nailed exploring the question of possibility.

He said it himself that the project started from the idea of "What if active pickup was invented before transistor?" or something like that, and they went for publishing it, because the prototype he made for the fun of it sounded surprisingly good.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

He said it himself that the project started from the idea of "What if active pickup was invented before transistor?" or something like that, and they went for publishing it, because the prototype he made for the fun of it sounded surprisingly good.

yeah, it was late... I skipped through some of the talking after he explained the form factor decisions and went for the playing parts.

I beg your forgiveness and appreciate your elucidating the nature of this highly strange product

That neck!!!! nobodies commenting on his guitar neck. sweet

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

It’s Finland. It’s not for tone, it’s for warmth. Remember the outdoor festival in the snow from the Sound Room?

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Tube powered pickup??

It’s Finland. It’s not for tone, it’s for warmth. Remember the outdoor festival in the snow from the Sound Room?

Ha. best response..... it's an outdoor riff heater.