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This makes it possible to fit Alumitones into almost any standard pickup or humbucker routing. Lace produces Alumitones for guitar, bass, pedal steel, extended range guitars and basses, cigar box guitars, and more. Sonically, the pickups produce more bass than traditional single coils, more volume, mids are slightly more than conventional pickups.
Jason Lollar is an American luthier, musician, and co-founder of Lollar Pickups.A 1979 graduate of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, Jason [1] is the author of Basic Pickup Winding and Complete Guide to Making Your Own Pickup Winder, now in its third edition, and a contributor to Bart Hopkin's Getting a Bigger Sound: Pickups and Microphones for Your Musical Instrument.
Fralin Pickups started as a one-man shop in the Fan District in Richmond, Virginia. Fralin began repairing broken pickups from local music stores. [1] A number of guitar players heard the resulting product and asked him to do the same for their guitars, which led him to establish Lindy Fralin Pickups. The company still winds pickups by hand to ...
A diagram showing the wiring of a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. Shown are the humbucker pickups with individual tone and volume controls (T and V, respectively), 3-way pickup selector switch, tone capacitors that form a passive low-pass filter, the output jack and connections between those components. The top right shows a modification that ...
A guitar pickup being potted in a wax mixture at approximately 140°F. Guitar pickup potting is a process whereby the fine wire coils of a guitar pickup are encapsulated in a substance that inhibits movement of the coil. [1] Guitar pickups are generally made from bobbins wrapped in many thousands of turns of fine wire. If the wire is left ...
Lollar Pickups is a Tacoma, Washington-based company that creates handmade pickups for electric, bass, and steel guitars. The company was founded in 1995 by luthier Jason Lollar, a 1979 graduate of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery , and author of Basic Pickup Winding and Complete Guide to Making Your Own Pickup Winder. [ 1 ]
A hexaphonic pickup and a converter are usually components of a guitar/synthesizer. Such pickups are uncommon (compared to normal ones), and only a few notable models exist, like the piezoelectric pickups on the Moog Guitar. Hexaphonic pickups can be either magnetic or piezoelectric or based on the condensor principle like electronicpickups
The P-90 is a single coil pickup designed by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. [4] [5] These pickups have a large, flat coil with adjustable steel screws as pole pieces, and a pair of flat alnico bar magnets lying under the coil bobbin. The adjustable pole pieces pick up the magnetism from the magnets.