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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on September 1, 2017 at 6:33pm

Hi, the function of a resonator cone is to improve the volume of guitars back in the day. It acts/works like a speaker cone and vibrates due to string input. If you dampen the cone you would lessen the vibration effect and in turn effect the tone and volume. Much like touching a vibrating speaker while it's playing. Many resonator guitars have the top and back "coupled" but not by the cone/resonator itself.

It's best to experiment re pickup placement, if I fit one to the resonator itself I normally have a thin timber wafer between pickup and resonator and vary this to control tone and/or output. I hope this helps.
Cheers Taff

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Allison on September 2, 2017 at 2:14am

Thanks Taffy Evans, great idea on pickup mounting. That's the way I'm going to do it.

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