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it keeps the strings high off the pickups. the higher they are the less the coils willpick up the sound.
The new Taylor T5Z guitar has a humbucking pickup buried in the neck joint and it works and sounds awesome.So your idea of a pickup in the 12th fret area is intriguing.
It would need to be a pickup that wouldn't get all muddy sounding that far up. Most likely a ceramic magnet or a neodymium magnet pickup with low output.
Can I see what an embedded piezo looks like, Wayfinder?
I already dremmel a slot under my bridges and set the piezo bar in there, trying to make sure the bridge is pulling down hard on it, but is there a better way?
I've been wondering why not make the slot even bigger and epoxy the thing up in there, maximum vibration transfer to the bar?
Oh and it's not a dead zone, it's just a nodal point of the strings 2nd 4th etc.. harmonic. The orig tone and 3rd 5th 7th etc are all at the highest point there.
For some reason the 1st is the orig tone.
It's all powers of 1 2 3 etc and a bit mathmathingy.
I'm sure this works, but I'm of the opinion that it would be better if the pickup was further away from the bridge.
In the pic, it looks like the strings are in between the poles. This works by microphonics in the pickup picking up the vibrations through the pickup's body and CBG body, but not using the pickups full potential.
So I would recommend moving the pickup forward towards the neck and placing it so the strings go over the poles.
I think it could be quite interesting. As Ron said, you do get noise from a pickup if you knock it with your hand.
How does it sound Danny?
Of course everyone is correct about getting it under the strings for volume and tone.
Speaking about nodes and pickup placements, there are a few harmonic spots along a string (the 12th for example on an open string). You can select the opposite of these nodes (anti-node??) for pickup placement to enhance desired frequencies depending on the notes and chords you want to play.
Say you have a signature chord in one of your songs that you need to rip out in an exact frequency, eg The Who - won't get fooled again, you could find the anti-node points for that chord and by placing a pickup or two at these points and by raising or lowering the pole peices depending on the string you want to enhance you 'frequency drive' that particular instrument.
I would be interested to hear the results of a pickup under the bridge, it might sound like a strange piezo. And in guitar building, anything with a unique sound is desirable.
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