Doing some early design work for my license plate CBG and I was wondering about pup placement. It's going to be an electric with a single coil pup. Just wondering about where I'm going to cut in my license to drop it in. I have some artistic considerations to make with regards to the license plate graphic.
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Mark said:
Depends on the sort of sound you want.
Wouldn't parking my pickup near the bride make the sound all shrill and whiny?
Grease Stains said:
The closer you place the pick up to the bride, the brighter or tinny-er the sound should be. Close to the neck makes the sound deeper.
The strings vibrate over a wider area near the neck. If im wrong some one with hopfully correct me here.
Place it wherever you want. If the graphic is important I don't think it matters much where the pup is, should rock.
put it inside and pickup the movement of the plate itself rather than the strings ;)
what grease stains said . closer to bridge =tilly sound .. closer to neck .. more full and deep ,
Yup, pretty much what anonymous pick and grease stains are saying. For a pickup close to the bridge, the fundamental frequency of the note you are playing will be relatively low in level but the higher order harmonics will be relatively loud - giving a tone that people might describe as "brighter", "trebley" or "high". For a pickup close to the neck the fundamental will be a louder component of the sound, giving a tone people might describe as "full", "pure" or "booming". (NB. the levels of the different harmonics at the neck position is a more complicated matter)
Maybe that's too much science for what you were contemplating. I'm guessing the main thing that'll influence you is avoiding putting the pickup in the middle of the Route 66 logo.
BTW. if you put the pickup near the bride you won't get any tone at all but you might piss off the groom.
Bingo! We have a winner!
Mark said:
I'm guessing the main thing that'll influence you is avoiding putting the pickup in the middle of the Route 66 logo.
If it's a neck through the box design, you may have to add an additional board to the neck inside the box, to accommodate the depth of the pickup. If the pickup is near the neck end, you may have to extend the board an inch or so outside the box because you may have cut all the way through the first neck board and the extra inch will make a stronger joint.
Thanks Skeesix, already figuring the extra board inside for added strength.
Hi Jef. I assume this would only work with a steel (ferrous) plate. Sounds like a great idea. Do you have any audio examples of this setup?
The Phrygian Kid said:
put it inside and pickup the movement of the plate itself rather than the strings ;)
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